the dumbest analysis of Middle East affairs

I have said before that Jeffrey Goldberg is--how do I put it delicately--the least intelligent writer on Middle East affairs these days. Here is his latest: "President Obama’s skills and charisma just might bring Sunni Arabs and Israeli Jews together, but he will be helped inestimably if he considers that the road to peace runs not through Jerusalem but through Karbala. Consider the possibility of a grand, if necessarily implicit, Jewish-Sunni alliance as a gift to Obama from his predecessor." This is rather amusing. That they think that the King of Jordan or Husni Mubarak's alliance with Israel represent the public mood of average Sunnis in the Arab world. I am sure that my (Sunni Beiruti) mother would not be amused to learn that she is now aligned with Israel. In fact, my mother (an Arab nationalist at heart) was just telling me last night: that she was quite unhappy with my article agaisnt the Iranian regime this week. She told me that she nows supports Iran against the Arab governments.