US Promotes Mideast Reform Amid Arab Skepticism
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Arab, Muslim and Western nations gather in Morocco on Saturday in an effort to promote economic and political reform in the Middle East that is widely seen within the region as US meddling.
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WASHINGTON -- President Bush offered a powerful incentive to Palestinians yesterday to rally behind a moderate leadership, signaling the promise of US reengagement and a new opening for peace following Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's death.
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Seven years of violence have bludgeoned expectations for Mideast peacemaking, and Israelis and Palestinians are greeting President Bush's belated drive to solve their decades-old conflict with deep skepticism.
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US president to call for international peace conference including Israeli and Arab representatives.
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The United States and Britain signalled a new bid to break the Israeli-Palestinian deadlock, a day after a high-level US panel said wider Middle East peace was key to saving Iraq.
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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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Arab officials say the White House is promoting a four-point proposal to end the fighting, but implementing it won't be easy
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Outgoing US Secretary of State Colin Powell told Israelâs prime minister today that the United States wanted to take advantage of new opportunities in the Middle East, and that it supported Palestinian elections set for January 9.
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President Bush publicly prodded two  important Middle East allies, Saudi Arabia and Egypt, on  Wednesday to move more quickly to embrace democracy.
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Hard-line Syria, sanctioned and criticized by the U.S. administration over the Arab-Israeli conflict and Iraq, says President Bush's new mandate could mean hope for solutions in a troubled Middle East.
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Why the American President's agenda for the region doesn't square with the perspectives of the area's Arab populace
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RABAT: Arab leaders on Saturday resisted US calls for speedy democratic reforms in their country, saying the steps that the US deems essential to stem terrorism must be preceded by a just and durable peace in the Middle East.
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JERUSALEM The Palestinian leadership expressed dismay Sunday at reports that the Bush administration is turning a blind eye to an expansion of Israeli settlements.
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A new poll on Thursday underscored deep Arab unhappiness with the United States but said the negative image could be repaired if Washington brokered a comprehensive Arab-Israeli peace agreement.
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Many Arabs on Thursday interpreted an American advisory panel's bleak assessment of President Bush's Iraq policies as proof of Washington's failure in the Middle East.
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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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The United States signaled on Sunday it would invite Syria and other Arab states to a Middle East peace conference but suggested they must renounce violence and genuinely seek an end to the conflict.