Week in Review: Mideast Peace, Iraq Fighting
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Description: NPR&#39;s Scott Simon reviews the week&#39;s news with NPR&#39;s Daniel Schorr, senior news analyst. Topics include the future of Palestinian leadership, prospects for Middle East peace, the importance of
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Developments in Iraq on Tuesday:
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The death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat a month ago appears to have created a new atmosphere for possible renewal of peace efforts in the Middle East.
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A top UN official said it was a &quot;bad month&quot; for the Israeli-Palestinian peace process: more violence, Israel&#39;s Prime Minister apparently backing away from an international peace plan, and the Palestinians still far from implementing badly needed reforms
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It has been almost a month since Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat&#39;s death and, as many had hoped, there are already some hopeful signs that his passing could lead to renewed peace initiatives between Israel and the Palestinians.
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Developments in Iraq on Thursday:
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America mourns its fallen soldiers, tensions boil over in Gaza , rush hour comes to a stop in the Northeast, and more
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Immersed for two days in the intense and arcane world of Mideast peacemaking, President Bush looked relieved Friday to see something of the landscape that all the fighting is about. Obviously moved, he even giggled, too.
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Israeli troops pulled back from a Lebanese border town Saturday after a week of heavy fighting with Hezbollah guerrillas who hailed the retreat as a victory. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice returned to the Middle East to push a refined U.S. peace plan.
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Anger toward America is high, extremists are on the upswing and hopes for democracy in the Middle East lie dashed. The Lebanon war is creating dangerous ripples in the war on terror, the future of Iraq &#151; even the effort to keep nuclear weapons from dangerous hands.
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left. The fighters had defied US military firepower and the interim Iraqi government for three weeks. accept a peace deal to halt the fighting, after a day of violence in which 110 Iraqis were killed and 501 wounded.
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Israeli and Palestinian negotiators achieved significant progress Wednesday toward ending violence and resuming peace talks, completing a plan for deploying Palestinian forces in the southern Gaza Strip and aiming for a summit within two weeks between the Israeli and Palestinian leaders.
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BAGHDAD -- US and Iraqi forces have moved aggressively in the past week to combat Sunni Arab insurgents in neighborhoods across the capital and to establish a stronger presence in religiously mixed districts plagued by sectarian violence.
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Some events and scattered violence across Iraq on Wednesday:
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By Philip Webster, Political Editor, and Ian MacKinnon in Jerusalem. BRITAIN will step up efforts to maintain the momentum towards Middle East peace this week by fleshing out plans for a London conference to
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Second in a series leading up to this weekâs presidential debate, which is to focus on foreign policy. The grinding conflict between Israel and the Palestinians is the foreign policy equivalent of a black hole.
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Senior officials from the United States, Europe and several Arab nations met on Wednesday to work on a plan for ending more than two weeks of Mideast fighting, even as Israeli troops and Hezbollah continued to clash.