Middle East peace: Clinton facing crucial test
Washington, Sep.5 : U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton faces a crucial test with the proposed resumption of Middle East peace talks.
Middle East talks: key issues for Israel, the Palestinians and the US
The Middle East talks face several potential crisis points, but Barack Obama's resolve will be central to success or failure This evening Barack Obama will sit down for dinner with Israel's prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, and the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, marking the start of direct negotiations between the pair with the ambitious aim of agreeing a final settlement to the Israeli ...
In Middle East Peace Talks, Clinton Faces a Crucial Test
WASHINGTON -- For much of her tenure as secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton has been less an architect than an advocate for the Obama administration's Middle East policy. With the resumption of direct talks last week, she now has no choice but to plunge into the rough and tumble of peacemaking.
Middle East talks: no real desire for change spells little hope of success
The mood is gloomy as the Middle East peace talks begin because neither side appears prepared to make the concessions that meaningful negotiations require No previous round of Middle East peace negotiations has begun with such rock-bottom expectations as the one being launched in Washington tonight . Neither side expects to be able to reach an agreement unless the US tries to impose one. And few ...
SKEWED MIDDLE EAST PERSPECTIVE
Doug Ireland’s rose-tinted portrayal of Sarah Schulman’s one dimensional foray into the world of Middle East politics is not particularly newsworthy ( “Confronting the Palestinian Dilemma,” Aug. 18-31).
Clinton to make Middle East trip
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Special Envoy George Mitchell will travel to the Middle East on September 14. (CNN) – Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will travel to the Middle East on September 14 to participate in a second round of peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, according to a senior State [...]
Middle East is passion for former Abilene student
Kimberly Garner was an eighth-grader at Madison Middle School when on the night of March 20, 2003, the Army’s 3rd Infantry Division rolled across the border from Kuwait into Iraq to mark the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom .Last week, after a summer in which she served as an intern at the Embassy of the Republic of Iraq in Washington, D.C., she watched with special interest the beginning of ...
Scepticism in Middle East after peace talks 'show'
Observers across the Middle East expressed deep pessimism pierced with glimmers of hope on Friday after the launch of yet another round of Israeli-Palestinian talks in a 17-year-old quest for peace.
Middle East: they’re in for the long haul
The Middle East peace talks — that is, the latest instalment — have begun in a flurry of activity and anxious speculation about the body language of the two main participants, Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu and the Palestianian President Mahmoud Abbas. But the truth is that these talks will be a long-running story; they could take at least a year, given the sheer complexity of the issues. Optimists ...
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Accusations against 23 Shia suspects include forming 'terror network' aimed at toppling Gulf state's government.