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"Hawkish Dove" Joins Mitchell Team to Push for Palestinian State
[Boston Globe] Farah Stockman - Mara Rudman, executive secretary of President Obama's National Security Council, once yelled at an Israeli ambassador over Israel's arms sales to China. State Department officials said Rudman, 46, will be appointed chief of staff to the team being assembled by Special Envoy George Mitchell to tackle the creation of a Palestinian state. A longtime figure on the progressive left, Rudman, is seen as a hawkish dove, inclined toward forceful, but incremental moves. Mitchell's three deputies will be David Hale, deputy assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs, focusing on political issues; Lt.-Gen. Keith Dayton, who has been training Palestinian forces, focusing on security; and Rudman, focusing on economics. The team also includes Fred Hof, focusing on Syria and Lebanon; Jonathan Prince, handling strategic communications; and State Department regional specialists Alon Sachar, Payton Knopf, and Gamal Helal.