Your view: A chance for peace?
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Yasser Arafat dominated the Palestinian movement for four decades, transforming himself from guerrilla into politician. Most Palestinians will remember him as the man who gave them hope and took their cause to the brink of statehood.
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President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair say there is a new opportunity for peace in the Middle East, following the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
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The recent rhetoric from the Middle East - hopeful and constructive from both sides of the divide - provides a glimmer of hope that Palestinians and Israelis may agree on new and peaceful borders in the coming new year.
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Some question whether it will be enough to quell the violence and worry about the impact of prolonged tours.
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What is your advice for the new leaders at the UN and in the UK as they pursue peace in a dangerous world?
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President Bush has a historic chance for coming up with a new peace plan based on the principles enshrined in the Oslo Accords. It is time also for Palestinians to unite behind a new leadership and stop the
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UK News, LONDON, Is there hope in the Middle East in the aftermath of Yasser Arafat&#39;s death, or will the optimistic noises now being made fizzle out into the usual confrontation?
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NAIROBI, Kenya - On one of the more hopeful days in a long time for ending Sudan&#39;s dreadful cycle of violence, the man who has spent the past three years trying to broker a peace was voicing cautious optimism that maybe this was the time.
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Western nations face an agonizing choice over whether to do business with the emerging Palestinian unity government: Endorsing it risks bolstering Islamic radicals, but shunning it might endanger the best chance in years to move forward on peace.
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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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Suffering continues in war-ravaged western Sudan. But to the south, after 21 years of conflict, things are looking up. The Islamic government in Khartoum may be ready to initial a peace agreement with southern Sudanese rebels on or before a Dec.
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IN Israel/Palestine, pessimism is close kin to commonsense: hope, to naivety. No commentator has ever sounded foolish by emphasising the obstacles to peace.
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If every declaration of the international community&#39;s determination to foster Arab-Israeli peace were worth money, we would have generated a considerable amount of wealth along with peace by now.
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Comment is free: Karen Koning AbuZayd: Palestinian suffering has reached new depths. Peace cannot be built by reducing 1.5m people to a state of abject destitution
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Comment is free: Max Hastings: Unlike Iraq, the battle against the Taliban carries a flicker of a hope of success, even if it is a misguided one.
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Despite the frequently heard claim that, post-Arafat, a moderate Palestinian trend offers an opportunity for advancing peace, the Palestinian reality is one of division and radical veto power.
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We should recognize music when we hear it. Standing next to Ariel Sharon in Jerusalem this week, Tony Blair said: &quot;Viability cannot just be about territory, it also has to be about proper democratic institutions