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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For all the questions raised by last weekâs death of Yasser Arafat, one thing is certain: The debate over his legacy is likely to be as polarizing as the conflict that consumed his life.
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Iran is the one issue where President Bush and Arab leaders have shared concerns. Ahead of the president's Mideast trip, Arab nations are eager to contain growing Iranian power, though they're wary of doing so militarily.
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WASHINGTON - Former President Carter says despite changes designed to eliminate voting problems in Florida, where the disputed 2000 presidential election was decided by a few hundred votes, conditions for a fair election in that state still don&#39;t exist.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell&#39;s resignation and the reported selection of National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice as his successor is being watched with great interest in the Middle East.
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JERUSALEM The readers of al-Quds, the leading Palestinian newspaper, opened the opinion pages this month  to a jarring sight. In the editorial cartoon, once the daily forum for a sharp jab at the Israeli occupation, appeared two bushy-bearded Hamas officials clutching suitcases full of cash.
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In a new afterword to his controversial "Palestine Peace Not Apartheid," former President Carter criticizes the lack of "balanced debate" in the U.S. about the Middle East and warns officials against being "seen as knee-jerk supporters of every action and policy" of the Israeli government.
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LOS ANGELES  - President Jimmy Carter is the subject of a documentary that will follow him across the United States as he promotes his latest tome.
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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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WASHINGTON -- Former President Jimmy Carter says that despite changes designed to eliminate voting problems in Florida - where the disputed 2000 presidential election was decided by only a few hundred votes - conditions for a fair election in that state
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Hoping to turn the page on six years of stalled Mideast negotiations, the U.S. instead found itself boxed in Sunday by a characteristically complex political impasse involving ally Israel and the Palestinians.
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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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With news of politics, war and baseball dominating the headlines, it is easy to overlook events in faraway lands. But people interested in long-term peace in the Middle East should be encouraged by the historic
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DUBLIN -- Former president Jimmy Carter accused the United States, Israel, and the European Union yesterday of seeking to divide the Palestinian people by reopening aid to President Mahmoud Abbas's new government in the West Bank while denying the same to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.
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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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Since the death of the Palestinian president, Yasser Arafat, a mood has been spreading in the Middle East that had not been felt for a long time: optimism.
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Jimmy Carter became the second  former U.S. president to win a Grammy Award when he was honored  in the spoken-word category on Sunday for the audio-book  version of his bestseller "Our Endangered Values: America's  Moral Crisis."