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Clinton to Attend Mideast Peace Talks in Egypt
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailySecretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will go to Egypt for the second round of the Obama administration's Israeli-Palestinian peace talks Sept. 14-15, The Hill newspaper reports. "Egypt will host the second round of . . . negotiations in Sharm el-Sheikh," Egypt's Foreign Ministry spokesman Hossam Zaki said in a statement carried by the state news agency MENA. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who began talks in Washington last week, will meet again in Egypt. A State Department official told Agence France-Presse that special envoy ...
Israel Agrees to Halt West Bank Settlement Construction for 10 Months
By David Sessions - Politics DailyIsrael has agreed to freeze construction in its controversial West Bank settlements for 10 months, the Associated Press reports. Palestinian authorities immediately rejected the concession because it did not include settlements in East Jerusalem. The Israeli security council approved the freeze by a vote of 11-1. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the "far-reaching and painful step" was designed to "encourage resumption of peace talks with our Palestinian neighbors." The Obama administration, which has criticized Israel for the settlement construction, praised the move as a helpful step ...
Mideast Stalemate Frustrates Obama
By Linda Gradstein - AOL NewsRAMALLAH, WEST BANK (Nov. 18) – Israel's announcement that it will build 900 new homes in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo drew a harsh response from U.S. President Barack Obama, underlining growing dismay on the ground over the long-elusive two-state solution for the Middle East. Speaking to Fox News in Beijing, Obama said, "I think that additional settlement building does not contribute to Israel's security. I think it makes it harder for them to make peace with their neighbors. I think it embitters the Palestinians in a way that could end up being very dangerous." Israeli ...
Palestinian Power Vacuum Unsettles Mideast Peace Process
By Linda Gradstein - AOL NewsJERUSALEM -- As Israel's most preferred Palestinian leader threatens to throw in the towel in frustration over the ongoing impasse on peace negotiations, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held unusually low-key talks with U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday night, then canceled a scheduled press conference on Tuesday morning before flying off to what promises to be an equally terse meeting with French officials in Paris. The meeting in Washington came as concerns deepened over Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' declared intention to not seek re-election in scheduled elections ...
Obama at the U.N.: Tough Sledding
By David Wood - Politics DailyPerhaps it was a measure of the height of his soaring rhetoric at the United Nations that prompted President Obama repeatedly to reassure his audience. "Now, I am not naïve,'' he said at one point, and later added, "I know this will be difficult." And he concluded by acknowledging that "... the changes I've spoken about today will not be easy to make ...'' ...
They're Still Makin' Bush Be President
By Dylan and Ethan Ris - Politics DailyThis just doesn't seem fair. George W. Bush is only 21 days away from a retirement full of brush-clearing, and the daggum pesky Middle East has to flare up in bloodshed as if it were 2006 or something.Alright Palestine. Alright Israel. Have it your way. You want the ol' Cowboy to get down off the saddle and make a token statement about peace? Fine, here ya go...President George W. Bush and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas agreed in a telephone conversation Tuesday that if any new cease-fire agreement is to be effective in the Mideast, "it must be respected by Hamas," the White ...
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