Word: mideast
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...your mind. During the campaign, you and the electorate rightly chose to frame the race around one issue: the economy. This choice, however, put all the demands of the global picture on the back burner and now there is the danger of problems boiling over, particularly in the Mideast...
...that was a year ago, and for Bush, getting re-elected with Jim Baker's help was more important than letting Baker do his job in the Mideast. Now it's time for your new administration to send the right signals to all parties involved in Mideast negotiations...
Journalists have long joked that the headline MIDEAST PEACE HOPES DIM could run over a story written today, next year or, probably, in A.D. 2030. That may no longer be the case. As the intermittent Israeli-Arab talks that began in Madrid 10 months ago resumed in Washington, Palestinians and representatives of Israel's new Labor-led government got down to serious discussions over a substantive matter: how a proposed elected council might be empowered to bring a measure of self-government to the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Eager to tone down animosity, Jerusalem's negotiators have...
...rise among Israeli Arabs of Islamic fervor, complete with a fanatic streak. The four Arabs charged with the killings were all followers of the Islamic Movement, a fundamentalist organization that is legal in Israel. Police say they were also members of Islamic Jihad, the outlawed militant group that is Mideast-wide...
There are some things that Broadway and international diplomacy just don't have in common. Israel's decision to leave her chair empty until December 9 at the newest round of the Mideast peace talks has been met with a chorus of condemnation...