One of the most critical elements in a lasting Middle East peace will be a change of government in Israel, former Secretary of State James A. Baker III said last week.
Baker, who served as secretary of state under President George H.W. Bush, made the rather startling observation about the need to change the government under Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last Thursday, as he was being honored in Washington, D.C., at the annual Freedom Dinner of the International Republican Institute (IRI).
After accepting IRI’s Freedom Award before an overflow crowd at the Capital Hilton Hotel, Baker then held an exchange on foreign policy with Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist Tom
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