[Jerusalem Post] The Baker-Hamilton report does not constitute a bid to force Israel into concessions in order to solve the Iraq crisis, Edward Djerejian, one of the study's principal advisers, insisted Thursday. The aim, said Djerejian in an interview, was to "test the intentions of Israel's neighbors." Djerejian, a former U.S. ambassador to Syria and Israel, heads the James Baker III Institute for Public Policy, one of the think-tanks sponsoring the Iraq Study Group. Djerejian said the report was not designed to pressure Israel and that "no one in the group was advocating pressing Israel." He said its call on the U.S. to engage with Iran should not be construed as suggesting a new American tolerance for Iran's nuclear program.
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