Robert Malley

Robert Malley
Robert Malleyis an American lawyer, political scientist and specialist in conflict resolution. He is currently a senior director at the National Security Council. Prior to holding that title, he was Program Director for Middle East and North Africa at the International Crisis Group and Assistant to National Security Advisor Sandy Bergerand the Director for Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs at the National Security Council. Malley is considered an expert on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and has written extensively on this...
based broad compact compromise consent depressing healing instead process proving step
A compact based on compromise and broad consent could have been a first step in a healing process. Instead it is proving yet another step in a process of depressing decline.
forces shackled
The U.S. is shackled by the very forces that it liberated.