Washington Whispers: Possible New Look at Mideast Policy
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While awaiting word on the condition of Yasir Arafat, aides to President Bush have begun grappling with the likelihood of a reshaped Middle East and a possible new
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Viewpoint: The Bush Administration appears unable to play Washington's traditional crisis-management role in the Middle East. That may be because it doesn't talk to Israel's enemies
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will launch a new effort to forge a Palestinian state by seeking an endorsement today from a rare Washington meeting of a high-level group that monitors Middle East peace.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice put Washington's heft behind new Mideast peace overtures yesterday, scheduling an unexpected meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas this week.
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 (JTA) - Americans wanting a peek at President Bushâs to-do list now that he has a mandate didnât get much substance at his first post-election news conference, except for this: a Palestinian 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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The Palestinians have taken a double hit this week with the news that Washington has quietly softened its opposition to growth in Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and Israel&#39;s announcement of plans to build 530 new settler homes in the
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This would appear to be an appropriate time to discuss the potential for Palestinian nonviolence and its ramifications for Israel.
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In diplomacy, silence can speak as loudly as the noisiest protest. When Israel announced plans to build 1,001 new homes in the West Bank, the silence from Washington echoed around the Middle East like a rifle shot.
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WASHINGTON: Washington was rocked late last week by allegations that a Pentagon policy analyst on Iran, Laurence A. Franklin, had passed classified information to Israel through the American
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U.S. politics, a desire to support  Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's disengagement plan and  Palestinian political disarray play into hints U.S. officials  may accept growth within Israeli settlements.
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A second minister in Prime Minister  Gordon Brown&#39;s new government has hinted at an apparent shift  in foreign policy, predicting that London and Washington would  not be &quot;joined at the hip&quot; under the new premier.
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When President Bush and John Kerry talk about Mideast policy, they say little except to commit themselves to Israel's security. The rivals seem likely to say little more until one of them occupies the White House next year.
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Secretary of state to convince Palestinian leaders about US-backed Middle East peace conference.
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Deflated Israeli expectations and expressions of U.S. goodwill are expected to be the hallmarks of Ehud Olmert&#039;s first visit to Washington this week as Israel&#039;s prime minister.
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JERUSALEM -- President Bush's declared intention to refocus on the Middle East by sponsoring a peace conference this fall won cautious endorsement yesterday from Israeli, Palestinian, and other Arab leaders who will be invited. But many in the region questioned what it could achieve.
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Why the Bush Doctrine no longer guides the foreign policy of the Bush Administration