Raghida Dergham weighs in today on the question I posed yesterday: is it helpful to understand the political issues of the Middle East as interconnected? Here is her soundbite from the New York Times:
Raghida Dergham, who writes a column in Al Hayat, the London-based pan-Arab daily, wrote that it was a matter of when, not if, "negotiations begin between Barack Obama's administration and the government in Tehran," and she urged Washington to view the region's problems as interconnected ‚ "not to think of Iran regardless of Iraq, or of Syria regardless of Lebanon, or of Israel regardless of Palestine."
This quote was taken from her al-Hayat column of this week; read it in full, in English here.