Retired Marine Gen. James Jones, who served as the Bush administration's special envoy for Middle East regional security, is urging President-elect Barack Obama's team to continue to foster improvements on the Israeli-occupied West Bank that could lay the foundation for a peaceful two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. "Nothing is more important" in the Middle East than peacefully resolving that conflict, he told Inside the Pentagon in an Oct. 30 interview. This is a pivotal moment, he said, noting the...
