WHERE THEY STAND ON The Mideast
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Second in a series leading up to this weekâs presidential debate, which is to focus on foreign policy. The grinding conflict between Israel and the Palestinians is the foreign policy equivalent of a black hole.
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With public attention focused elsewhere, the Bush administration is letting Middle East peace hopes disappear. Israelis rightly complain that peace requires a partner, a role that Yasser Arafat has been pathetically incapable of filling so far.
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Palestinians are moving toward a new generation of leadership, while US and Israeli leaders consider their legacies.
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Talk about the Middle East is upbeat these days in Washington, Europe, and Jerusalem, as presidents, prime ministers, and diplomats
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Israeli intelligence is struggling to get to grips with highly sophisticated Hamas in West Bank bastion. By Majeda El-Batsh - HEBRON, West Bank.
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Arab governments have reminded US President George W. Bush of his commitment to Middle. East diplomacy, in the hope a second Bush administration will pay more attention to one of their top priorities.
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As peace between Israel and the Palestinians waxed and waned over the decades, there was one constant amid the tumult: Yasser Arafat was at its centre.
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PARIS -- He stood only 5 feet 2 inches but Yasser Arafat cast a long shadow on the world stage, and many leaders, diplomats, and analysts saw in his passing an opportunity to unlock the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
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DEAD SEA, Jordan &#151; Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice threw herself at two intractable Mideast problems &#151; the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Iraq &#151; during a brief trip to the region, and encountered the reality that the U.S. has few options other than patience.
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GAZA If Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his strategists have it their own way, and if conditions on the Palestinian-Israeli front stay their tragic course, one can expect that by the end of next year the 360-kilometer-long separation wall - under
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America's long dance with the Mideast dates all the way back to the Founding Fathers. Who knew?
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Analysis: Air strikes have taken out some Hamas leaders and crews firing rockets at Israel. But many Palestinians perceive the Israeli actions as support for Fatah
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US diplomats, who said on Wednesday Washington remained dedicated to a &quot;road map&quot; peace plan for a Palestinian state. Sharon, wary of alienating Israel&#39;s key ally, said later he still backed
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Israel still supports the US-backed road map peace plan. Sharon spoke after a senior advisor was quoted as saying that Sharon&#39;s
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Five US universities have opened satellite campuses in the Mideast state.
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The political tectonic plates under the Middle East may have at last begun to shift. Some Arab leaders, facing four more years of George W. Bush, seem to have understood the policy message he sent from Canada
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&quot;I think it&#39;s very important for our friends, the Israelis, to have a peaceful Palestinian state living on their border. And it&#39;s very important for the Palestinian people to have a peaceful