McConnell in Middle East
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US Senator Mitch McConnell is in the Middle East for a two-day visit to discuss peace prospects between the Israelis and Palestinians.
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BEIRUT - Mahmoud Khalifa has tried five times to sneak into Europe. Each time, he was caught and sent back to Lebanon, the country where he was born but is denied some of the most basic rights because he is a Palestinian refugee.
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LONDON, Oct. 18--National Security Adviser Stephen J. Hadley will head to the Middle East next week, the latest in a procession of senior U.S. officials trying to keep nascent Israeli-Palestinian talks on track in advance of a possible peace conference later this fall.
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The devil dancing in the Middle East is dead. After Arafat used his life to deny Palestinians a national state, Palestinians will now have the chance to use Arafat&#39;s death to usher in a new era of compromise.
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Brent Scowcroft&#39;s Nov. 12 op-ed column, &quot;A Middle East Opening,&quot; was a reminder of the Middle East policy that failed the first George Bush and his successor, Bill Clinton.
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Weymouth: Many say that Yasser Arafat&#39;s death is a turning point in the Middle East. Do you see it that way? Abbas: Arafat was a symbolic leader for the Palestinian people.
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The Nov. 11 death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has left the Middle -East and the international community and LBCC with a great deal of uneasy speculation as to how his absence will affect the future of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
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The footage of a marine killing a wounded Iraqi has roiled the Middle East.
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Every two decades, it seems, the Middle East embroils Jacques Chirac in a particularly agonizing way. In the mid-1980s, he was prime minister as France wrestled with the kidnapping in Lebanon of several French
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Refusing to talk to PA Chairman Yasser Arafat has been a cornerstone of US Middle East policy since President Bush, in June 2002, called on the Palestinians to choose new leadership not tainted by terrorism.
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Once again, hope flickers in the Middle East. There are encouraging signs that the death of Yasser Arafat is breathing life into hopes of reviving the peace process that Arafat had abandoned.
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Tens of thousands of Shiite Muslim men, some beating their chests and slashing their heads with blades, marched along city streets throughout the Middle East on Tuesday to mark Ashoura. The marches in Lebanon, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Iran took place in an atmosphere of tension between Shiites and Sunni Muslims that has risen during the past year as the power struggles in Beirut and Baghdad take on a sectarian cast.
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When Iraq war veteran Jon Soltz accused Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) of "aiding the enemy," the Democratic senators gathered around him yesterday did not wince. Nor did Democrats object when Soltz, the chairman of a group called VoteVets.org, called President Bush and Vice...
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Recent events in the Middle East have the potential to positively impact the region. Lost amongst all of the coverage of Yasser Arafat&#39;s passing was a historic 67-45 vote by Israel&#39;s parliament
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But the most important entry on Middle East watchers&#39; list is George W. Bush: in for four more years. The recent death of Arafat, the Palestinian Authority president, creates an opportunity for the United
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was just moments from signing off on creation of a conference committee for a lobbying and ethics bill. Then he got a call, and the action was derailed for the second time this week.
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JERUSALEM - US assistant secretary of state William Burns is in the Middle East preparing the way for a visit by Secretary of State Colin Powell.