The Foreign Service Journal, November 2012

highlighting the art of public diplomacy abroad. The collection captures and expands the presentations offered at the November 2011 forum, “The Last Three Feet: NewMedia, New Approaches, and New Challenges for American Public Diplomacy,” organized by the Public Diplomacy Council, the Walter Roberts Foundation andThe George Washington Univer- sity’s Institute for Public Diplomacy and Global Communication. Its aim, in the editor’s words, is to “provide a greater understand- ing of and appreciation for the art of public diplomacy and for the American and locally employed professionals who are in that ‘last three feet’ at our embassies and consulates abroad.” From Beijing to Baghdad, embassies have taken advantage of local culture and modern technology. Whether it is putting the American information center in a major Jakarta shopping mall or lessons learned from a misguided social networking experiment among network-savvy young Turks, the case studies presented in this book present both models to emulate and areas to improve. They show the uniqueness of each country setting, and illumi- nate the common factors in constructing positive public policy endeavors. Now editor emeritus of the online journal American Diplo- macy , William P. Kiehl served throughout Europe and Asia during his 33-year Foreign Service career and continues to take tempo- rary overseas assignments with the Department of State. He has his own international public affairs consultancy, PDWorldwide, and is the author of Global Intentions, Local Results (CreateSpace, 2008) and the editor of America’s Dialogue with the World (Public Diplomacy Council, 2006). Palestine: In Need of a Just God Terrell Arnold, Amazon Digital Services, 2012, $6.95, Kindle Edition. Palestine continues to be a land in turmoil. For most of the past century it has been under invasion by European colonizers, who