of guaranteeing Israeli security. In a context fraught with uncertainty, Obama is inviting the Israeli Left to join with him in a fight against Netanyahu in order to achieve… well, what precisely?

In addition to the vagueness of his goals, Obama’s body language has dealt the Israeli Left a weak hand. The Cairo speech cast Israel as a bit player in a U.S.-Muslim drama. The President, stressing his Muslim ancestry, did not take the time to fly to Jerusalem, where he might have reasoned with the Israeli public about the value to it of abandoning the Bush-Sharon agreement. Instead, his advisers denied flatly (and falsely) that such an agreement had ever existed. As a consequence of this disingenuousness, many Israelis fear that the administration aims to buy goodwill fromemployed by the universities involved in the study, and there were no previous relationships or contact between interviewers and interviewees. LB undertook five of the interviews with consumers and all the interviews with MHPs. RK undertook the interviews with psychiatrists. The rest were conducted by the research team. There were no direct relationships between the consumer interviewees and MHPs interviewed. They were representatives of their professions. Further, there was no direct relationship between the consumer participants and the family supporters interviewed.

MHPs and psychiatrists were asked about their experiences in the implementation of CTOs, their understanding of the role of CTOs in service delivery, and how CTOs impacted their relationships with consumers, their families, and other informal supporters. Consumers and family supporters who had experience of CTOs were asked