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The Unintended Consequences of America?s Adventure in Iraq | The National I
2012-01-01 21:10:00 Maliki insists that he is not a tool of the Iranians. Strictly speaking, he is correct. Iraq will never allow itself to be completely dominated by Tehran. Nevertheless, just as there can be no denying that Iran was the real victor of Operation Iraqi Freedom because America defanged its only seriously powerful regional rival, so ...
By: 1913 Intel
Israel: Self-Made Nakba
2008-05-19 20:43:00 By Barry Rubin It’s become fashionable to match celebration of Israel’s founding (though part of the media can’t even admit Israelis are celebrating) with Palestinian marking of their 1948 “nakba” catastrophe. Yet whose fault is it that they didn’t use those six decades constructively? And who killed the independent Palestinian state alongside Israel that was part of ...
By: 1913 Intel
Arab League Mediators Mediate Lebanon Crisis
2008-05-16 09:54:00 Arab League mediators announced a deal on Thursday to end Lebanon’s worse internal fighting since the civil war which began when the US backed government challenged Hizbullah. The opposing sides met in Qatar and finally resolved their issues — for the moment. Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad announced, “We declare an agreement sponsored by the ...
Middle Eastern Lebanon Scorecard
2008-05-13 16:53:00 These days it requires a scorecard to keep track of the situation in Lebanon. Shiites in Iran are influencing Lebanon politics as are Sunni Syrians while Sunni Egypt and Saudi Arabia are supporting the Lebanon government. Arab foreign ministers gathered in Cairo in an attempt to sort out the situation which has paraylzed the Lebanese ...
Arab League Wants Israel Action Or Inaction On Peace
2008-02-23 16:03:00 Arab officials wrned Israel they would withdraw the landmark offer of peace and recognition of Israel in exchange for Arab land unless Israel accepts the initiative. The warnings came amidst inceasing Arab impatience with the drawn out negotiations between Israel and President Abbas of the Palestinian Authority which don’t appear to be going anywhere. Saudi ...
UN Watch Urges UNHRC To Reject Arab League Charter
2008-01-29 16:39:00 The UN Watch, which is associated with the American Jewish Committee, urged the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, to clearify a recent endorsement of the Arab Charter of Human Rights because it “contains several provisions that promote classically anti-Semitic themes.” For example, it contains a sentence which states, “rejecting all forms of ...
Israel To Blame For Gaza, Says Arab League
2008-01-28 17:03:00 An ongoing problem in any discussion of the Palestinian-israel conflict is the tremendous need on the part of both sides to blame the other as the sole source of problems. Arab League foreign ministers said Israel was fully responsible for the deterioration in the Gaza Strip and demanded the jewish state lift the blockade immediately ...
Britain wanted to use Arabs to protect its interests in the Middle East
2007-11-28 13:52:00 The French scholar of the Middle East, Pierre Rondot, asserts that Britain wanted to use the Arabs to protect British Middle Eastern interests. It is noteworthy that Rondot was a strong sympathizer of the Arabs against Israel and Zionism, yet, being French, he did not have a motive to cover up British policies and motives.Great Britain, for reasons both of fact and sentiment, continues to be with the Arab nation; its favor in 1917 towards Zionism, its resignation to the arrangements of 1920 [at the San Remo Conference?] do not allow it to forget its essential design, which is to entrust the care of its transit interests in the Near East to an alliance with the Arabs; it also emancipated, as soon as it could, Transjordan (treaty of 1928) and Iraq (treaty of 1930); it also ended up during the second world conflict [WW2], as the patron if not the inventor of the 'Arab League,' evolving in the first days of peace [after WW2] towards the even more concrete projects of 'Greater Syria...
By: Emet m\'Tsiyon
Bush Gets Entire Arab League To Attend Mid-East Peace Conference
2007-11-25 22:08:00 The Bush administration was able to declare victory when Syria, the last Arab world holdout, said Sunday it would attend this week’s high-stakes Mideast peace conference. League members grudgingly agreed a few days ago to send their foreign ministers to the conference, meant to renew Israeli-Palestinian peace talks after a violent, seven-year lull in negotiations. Most ...
By: The Hot Joints
Egypt And Arab League Offer Support To Secretary Of State Rice
2007-10-17 20:26:00 The Egyptian government and the Arab League offered their support to Secretary of State Rice’s efforts to achieve resolution of the Israel-Palestinian conflict. Egypt’s Foreign Minister, Ahmed Abdul Gheit indicated he was given assurances from Rice the United States and President Bush were placing this topic as among the highest priorities to be achieved. ...
Delegation of the Arab league visits Israel
2007-08-05 10:56:00 On 25 July the ministers of foreign affairs of Egypt and Jordan will travel as a delegation of the Arab league to peace discussions to Israel. Both countries are so far the only one, which signed a peace treaty with Israel. It is called, which about a peace plan is to be negotiated, that a normalization of the relations of Israel with the countries of the Arab world plans. Traditionally the 1945 created league, to which now 22 countries belong, stood for Israel rather hostilely opposite. Up to the signing of the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel in the year 1979 by the Egyptian president at that time Sadat, was the seat of the league in Ägpten. Betrayed by Egypt felt, the members decided to pull after Tunis, where they remained to 1990. The ministers of foreign affairs Gheit (Egypt) and aluminium-Khatib (Jordanian one) had met the Israeli Foreign Minister Zipi Liwni in May in Cairo and had agreed upon a subsequent discussion in Israel. The Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert offe...
By: el-blog.com
Arab League delegation visits Israel
2007-07-26 02:22:00 JERUSALEM - The foreign ministers of Egypt and Jordan began a historic visit to Israel on Wednesday to formally present an The ministers arrived as representatives of the Arab League, the first time the 22-member group has sent a delegation to the Jewish state. The Arab League peace plan envisions full recognition of Israel in return ...
The 5 point Arab League peace plan for Israel
2007-07-25 21:03:00 First adopted by Arab League in 2002 • Calls for “full Israeli withdrawal from all the Arab territories occupied since June 1967″ • Calls for Israel’s “acceptance of an independent Palestinian State, with East Jerusalem as its capital” • All Arab states would establish “normal relations… with Israel” and “consider the Arab-Israeli conflict ended” • Calls for a “just ...
By: Carson's Post
Arab League set for Israel talks
2007-07-25 06:25:00 Jordan's foreign minister goes to Jerusalem after meeting Tony BlairFor the first time, a delegation from the Arab League is visiting Israel to try to push forward a plan for peace in the Middle East.
By: Get rich
Arab League delegation to pay historic visit to Israel
2007-07-11 12:17:00 Jerusalem, July 11 (DPA) An Arab League delegation will visit Israel for peace talks later this month, the first visit in more than half a century since the foundation of both the Arab League and Israel.
By: Latest News
Arab League Envoys to Visit Israel
2007-07-11 11:04:00 The Arab League, which represents twenty-two Arab nations, is planning to send official envoys to Israel to discuss peace. This move represents a significant shift in Arab thought. The Arab League has previously focused on the destruction of Israel, but is now considering a peace plan which would involve official recognition of Israel. Why is this ...
Arab League condemns Gaza ?crime?
2007-06-16 22:27:00 Arab nations have condemned the latest infighting in Gaza, pledging fresh support for the embattled Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. His Fatah faction has been ousted from Gaza by rival Hamas militants, ending a week of fierce feuding in which at least 100 people died. After talks in Cairo, Arab League foreign ministers urged Hamas and ...
Arab League: Stop the fighting
2007-06-16 14:28:00 GAZA CITY (CNN) -- The Arab League called Friday 'on all parties to stop the fighting on Palestinian lands' and return the government to its status before Hamas forces claimed full control of Gaza.
By: Get rich
Arab League condemns Gaza 'crime'
2007-06-16 07:08:00 There are fears fighting may reach the Fatah-dominated West BankArab nations have condemned the latest infighting in Gaza, pledging fresh support for the embattled Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
By: Get rich
Arab League: 'Stop the fighting'
2007-06-16 05:28:00 GAZA CITY (CNN) -- The Arab League called Friday 'on all parties to stop the fighting on Palestinian lands' and return the government to its status before Hamas forces claimed full control of Gaza.
By: Get rich
Arab League calls for Palestinian unity
2007-06-16 04:25:00 GAZA CITY (CNN) -- The Arab League called Friday 'on all parties to stop the fighting on Palestinian lands' and return the government to its status before Hamas forces claimed full control of Gaza.
By: Get rich
Israel willing to talk with Arab League: Olmert
2007-04-16 11:41:00 Jerusalem, April 15 (Xinhua) Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Sunday Israel is willing to talk to any representative of Arab States to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “Israel will make every effort to find a final solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” Olmert was quoted as saying by local daily Yedioth Ahronoth on its website. At the weekly ...
By: Latest News
Israel willing to talk with Arab League: Olmert
2007-04-15 19:24:00 Jerusalem, April 15: Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Sunday Israel is willing to talk to any representative of Arab States to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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