But Shibley Telhami, a professor from Maryland University who serves on a trilateral American-Israeli-Palestinian committee, argues that an improvement in Syrian-Israeli relations could, in turn, work for better relations between Israelis and Palestinians.
Under the circumstances, it is no surprise that their public proclamations of a desire to work for harmonious relations ring hollow, at least to each other.
Yet America, which kept silent during six visits to Yasukuni by a former prime minister, Junichiro Koizumi, from 2001 to 2006, this time expressed "disappointment".Its reprimand, however, was fairly gentle, urging Japan "and its neighbours" to work for better relations.
In August 1968 he became minister of foreign relations, in which capacity he formed closer cultural and commercial ties with the Soviet Union and worked for better relations with other Latin American countries.
He also took an interest in Asia and helped found the Committee of 100, Chinese-Americans who worked for better relations with China.
Mr. Jernstedt had been running his own consultancy, the Jernstedt Company, after working for public relations agencies like Fleishman-Hillard and GolinHarris.
Lord Janner, chairman of the Holocaust Educational Trust, said: "This is a sad day for all of us in Britain who work for good race relations.
He was made an OBE in 2004 for his work for Anglo-German relations and he launched his own sport-focused foundation with the same aim.
These videos are doing the Lord's work for American race relations.
Brown spent years pushing schools to follow the law, after giving up her job doing administrative support work for a government relations firm.
