Editing Zbigniew Brzezinski (section)

====Arab-Israeli conflict====
{{main|Camp David Accords}}
[[File:Begin Brzezinski Camp David Chess.jpg|thumb|235px|Israeli Prime Minister [[Menachem Begin]] engages Brzezinski in a game of chess at Camp David]]
On October 10, 2007, Brzezinski along with other influential signatories sent a letter to President [[George W. Bush]] and Secretary of State [[Condoleezza Rice]] titled "Failure Risks Devastating Consequences." The letter was partly an advice and a warning of the failure of an upcoming<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-07-15-us-mideast_N.htm |work=USA Today |title=Bush announces Mideast peace conference |first=David |last=Jackson |date=July 17, 2007}}</ref> U.S.-sponsored Middle East conference scheduled for November 2007 between representatives of [[Israelis]] and [[Palestinians]]. The letter also suggested to engage in "a genuine dialogue with [[Hamas]]" rather than to isolate it further.<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.nybooks.com/articles/20750|title='Failure Risks Devastating Consequences' by Zbigniew Brzezinski |author=Paul Volcker|journal=The New York Review of Books|date=November 8, 2007 |volume=54 |issue=17 |access-date=May 25, 2016}}</ref><!--
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===Poland, the Pope, and Solidarity===
http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=redux&s=szulc102878
http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=1009

The New York Sun, April 4, 2005, Stephen Miller

Later in 1979 the Pope John Paul II traveled to Poland, where he was received rapturously by crowds that totaled a third of his homeland's population. His presence became a rallying point for the nation as its Communist regime seemed to be weakening in the face of popular dissent. The Kremlin was apoplectic, and a KGB inquiry into Wojtyla's election supposedly concluded that it was a German-American plot led by President Carter's national security adviser, the Polish-born Zbigniew Brzezinski, and Cardinal John Krol of Philadelphia.

In the wake of the Pope's departure, Poland's Solidarity movement arose, with the moral (and some said financial) support of the papacy. When Lech Walesa signed the agreement with the Polish government that legalised Solidarity in 1980, it was with a souvenir pen from the Pope's 1979 visit. {{citation needed|date=December 2013}}

Edmonton Journal (Alberta), April 3, 2005, Don Butler
Carter's Polish-born security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski had met Karol Wojtyla in 1976 when he was still an archbishop. The two corresponded regularly thereafter.

In 1980 Brzezinski began a dialogue with Czech bishop Jozef Tomko advising him of American financial and organisational support for the budding Solidarity movement. They discussed how the United States and the Vatican could work together to promote human rights in Poland without inciting a crackdown by authorities. {{citation needed|date=December 2013}}

Later that year Brzezinski phoned the pontiff to warn that the Soviets were preparing to invade Poland. According to Bernstein and Politi, the Pope quickly agreed to instruct his bishops to pressure governments in Western Europe to threaten the Soviets with isolation if they intervened. The Soviets later retreated. {{citation needed|date=December 2013}}

Thus began a pattern of co-operation and intelligence-sharing between Washington and the Vatican that would continue throughout the pivotal decade of the 1980s, when the Americans, according to the authors of His Holiness, covertly spent more than $50&nbsp;million US supporting Solidarity. {{citation needed|date=December 2013}}

Agence France Presse – English, April 2, 2005,
For the popular Komsomolskaya Pravda daily, "Several US politicians actively pushed (Karol) Wojtyla (John Paul II) forward to the Holy See, not least the famous anti-communist and Russophobe, (former US national security adviser) Zbignew Brzezinski. He thought "his man" in the Vatican would be well worth hundreds of divisions in the West's confrontation with the Soviet Bloc. And he was not wrong."-->