Arabs Reject U.S. Push for Reform
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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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American policymakers and statesmen believe the Middle East is better off without Yasser Arafat. Madeline Albright said Arafat &quot;was viewed as an obstacle to peace, both by the Israelis and
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The United States has vetoed an Arab-drafted Security Council resolution that would have demanded an immediate end to Israel&#39;s military offensive in the Gaza Strip.
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US-funded efforts to spread democracy in Middle East meet with resistance.
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Iraq's president rejects a high-level US report calling for changes in American strategy in Iraq.
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Aug. 25, 2004 - RAMALLAH, West Bank Yasser Arafat fended off another challenge to his authority Wednesday when Palestinian lawmakers backed away from sweeping reform demands, instead approving a watered down set of recommendations.
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The United States killed with its veto power on Tuesday another Arab draft UN Security Council resolution. Germany, Britain and Romania abstained from the vote on the draft proposed by Algeria, Tunisia and Pakistan.
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The United States on Tuesday rejected the saying that it had held contacts with Hamas as a leader of the radical Palestinian group has claimed.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell on  Saturday said Middle Eastern economic and political reform  would help defeat terrorism but many Arabs dismissed his call  and demanded an end to the Arab-Israeli conflict.
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BEIRUT: Consistently second only to Ariel Sharon in terms of unpopularity among Arabs, US President George W. Bush&#39;s re-election victory was greeted in the Arab world with a sense of disillusionment and foreboding.
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Senior Arab officials attending a US-sponsored conference in the Middle East rejected the Bush administration&#39;s assertion that greater democracy would help end terrorism
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Arab viewers, many suspicious of U.S. intentions in their region, watched the U.S. presidential debate with wariness &#151; some dismissing it as a trivial "American show" and others expressing dismay that the Palestinian-Israeli conflict was nearly ignored.
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The United States accused its Arab allies Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman and Qatar on Tuesday of being among the world's worst offenders in failing to prevent people from being sold into the sex trade and servitude.
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The US House of Representatives has voted to deny all aid to Saudi Arabia, despite repeated assurances by the administration the desert kingdom was cooperating with the United States in the war on terror.
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Flawed polls Monday and coming votes in the Middle East are seen by critics as creating only the appearance of reform.
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The United States urged sceptical Arab and Muslim nations to embrace vigorous and speedy reforms without using the Middle East conflict as an excuse to delay political and economic liberalisation.
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A proposal floated by the US government and several prominient US senators Sunday to &#39;adjust&#39; the outcome of next month&#39;s election in Iraq to ensure more Sunni representation has been rejected by the Iraq Electoral Commission (IEC).