Jimmy Carter's Mideast book polarizes opinion
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A new book by Jimmy Carter in which he compares Israel's treatment of Palestinians to South Africa's Apartheid system has sparked a bitter debate over the former U.S. president's reputation as a peacemaker.
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JERUSALEM -- President Bush's declared intention to refocus on the Middle East by sponsoring a peace conference this fall won cautious endorsement yesterday from Israeli, Palestinian, and other Arab leaders who will be invited. But many in the region questioned what it could achieve.
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The victory of George W Bush in the US election dominates Thursday&#39;s Middle East press. In the Arab world and Iran, the mood ranges from scepticism to cynicism.
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BERLIN, Feb. 20 -- Over Christmas vacation, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice took home a three-foot stack of reports written by the State Department historian on previous efforts by the United States to forge Middle East peace. Rice had read memoirs by her predecessors, but as she embarked on her own effort to help end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, she decided she needed to study a day-by-day diplomatic narrative of  what had gone wrong in the past....
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Former President Carter called divisions among Christians a "cancer" in the church, as he opened a meeting meant to unite moderate Baptists across racial and theological lines and show their tradition goes beyond conservative Southern Baptist beliefs.
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President Bush has exploited the Sept. 11 attacks, and a timorous American press has not held him to account, former President Jimmy Carter said in an interview published Monday.
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Fairly or not, US Secretary of State Colin Powell has been perceived in Jerusalem over the last four years as the administration&#39;s &quot;bad cop,&quot; at least in regard to Israel.
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Pakistani President Pervez   Musharraf's memoir could project his status on the world stage,   but it could touch off controversy and strain relations with   neighbors, analysts said a day after the book's launch.
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U.S. politics, a desire to support  Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's disengagement plan and  Palestinian political disarray play into hints U.S. officials  may accept growth within Israeli settlements.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - President George W. Bush faces a balancing act in West Bank talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday, the second day of a Middle East peace mission laden with skepticism.
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US ex-president Jimmy Carter says some Israeli curbs in the West Bank are worse than apartheid-era South Africa.
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Israel cites some doubts, but Arabs say their advice is now being heard.
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Former President Jimmy Carter, who has monitored elections throughout the developing world, predicted on Monday the U.S. presidential vote in Florida would be as flawed as the 2000 poll there.
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LOS ANGELES -- Former President Jimmy Carter, who received a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in the Middle East, said yesterday he would head an observer mission to monitor the Palestinian presidential elections next month.
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Long-suffering allies will take heart from her comments on Mideast peace, but for the most part she signals continuity rather than change
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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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WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 (JTA) - Americans wanting a peek at President Bushâs to-do list now that he has a mandate didnât get much substance at his first post-election news conference, except for this: a Palestinian state.