Word: mideast
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...Bush administration came into office intending to reduce Washington's role in Mideast peacemaking. Yet now you have a situation where the President and the Secretary of State are having to devote constant attention to keeping the Israelis and Palestinians on board for a cease-fire brokered, and pretty much imposed on them, by Washington. Is this where the administration wanted to be on the Middle East...
Senator George Mitchell may have hoped to help engineer an Israeli-Palestinian cease-fire; instead, his report into Mideast violence has started a new spin war. And Israel has had the better of the opening volleys. By ordering his troops to avoid firing unless their lives were threatened, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon achieved three important effects: He complied with Washington's request that Israel make the first gesture towards implementing the Mitchell Report by declaring a unilateral cease-fire; he made the Palestinians look like the spoilers for deriding that gesture; and he has drawn the focus of discussion away...
...language of accord between Peres and both President Bush and Secretary of State Powell following their meetings, the Israeli foreign minister's attempts at making nice suggest that the White House feels it is being dragged by Sharon's inflexibility into becoming an increasingly active diplomatic player in the Mideast conflict - a role that it has made clear it would rather avoid...
Sameer Doshi ’02 wrote an opinion piece on April 6, “Media Not Impartial on Mideast,” that thoughtfully makes clear the shortcomings of the American media in reporting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. I have heard both the American Jewish and the American Arab communities complain loudly of the hatefully unfair reporting of The New York Times, CNN and others. Yet if the reporting is so overtly pro-Israel as Doshi describes it, one is hard pressed to understand what the American supporters of Israel are complaining about. If the reality...
...having watched Powell soften Washington's line on sanctions against Iraq during his Mideast tour, the hawks weren't about to allow him to start sending flowers to their favorite bogeyman in Pyongyang. North Korea's missile program is Exhibit A in the case for building a national missile defense, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, for one, has spent much of the past five years talking up the imminent missile threat from Pyongyang as a reason to hurry the deployment of a missile shield. If North Korea's missiles could be negotiated away for a couple of hundred million dollars...