Arab reform dreams run aground
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Across most of Amman you could hear the guns blasting out their ceremonial salute, as King Abdullah arrived for the state opening of the Jordanian parliament just a few days ago.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - The Palestinian parliament  suspended work Wednesday to press President Yasser Arafat into  ratifying an anti-corruption reform package and get a grip on  spiraling unrest and disorder.
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Saudi rulers may have breathed a sigh of relief when protests calling for change were thwarted this week but reformists, scholars and even royal family members say the challenge will not go away.
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RABAT  - Arab nations rebuffed US calls for speedy democratic reforms, insisting that steps the United States deems essential to stem terrorism be tied to a just and lasting peace in the Middle East.
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Lawmakers angered by the Palestinian leadership's failure to make reforms plan to force a parliamentary no-confidence vote that could bring down the government appointed by Yasser Arafat.
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Committee of Palestinian MPs cast doubt on Arafat&#39;s willingness to implement reform, crack down on corruption. By Majeda El-Batsh - RAMALLAH, West Bank.
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Seven months ago, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s astonishing announcement of a plan to withdraw all the Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip ignited a tiny spark of hope among people searching for some way out of another ghastly intifada.
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Viewpoint: Throughout the Middle East, Washington has repeated its tragic mistakes of the early '80s in Beirut
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Abdelrahman al-MarwaniÂs goal to bring peace to Yemen shows the difficulty of changing the countryÂs mind-set, one person at a time.
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Upcoming elections in Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and the Palestinian Authority are initial steps on still rocky paths to democracy.
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Daunting reforms, in unorthodox order, are born of confidence, but leave room for a fall.
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A book for use in Arab schools describes Israelâs war of independence as a âcatastropheâ for the Arab population.
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Senior Arab officials attending a U.S.-sponsored conference to promote democracy in the Middle East emphatically rejected on Saturday the Bush administration's assertion that greater democracy in the region would help end terrorism. They argued that the administration's strong support of Israel made it difficult to undertake political reform or to stop extremists driven by hatred of U.S. policies.
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CAIRO. The Egyptian opposition on Thursday accused the ruling party of skirting around reforms and ignoring their key demand for constitutional amendments that would bring about a rotation of power.
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The Tories are expected to call for renewed efforts to encourage Middle East countries to accept reform.
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There was deep disappointment in the West Bank and Gaza Strip on Monday after Palestinian singer Amar Hassan lost in a contest for the Arab world&#39;s best amateur singer.
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HEBRON, West Bank  - After not even two years on the job, Zakariya al-Jamal gave up teaching Arabic at a Palestinian public school to work in construction.