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Rahm Emanuel in Israel for Son's Bar Mitzvah, May Meet With Officials
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyWhite House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is in Israel with his family for the bar mitzvah of his son and a nephew in the coming days and traveled to Jordan over the weekend. Emanuel may also meet with Israeli officials, the White House said over the weekend. "It is accurate to say he visited Jordan," White House Assistant Press Secretary Tommy Vietor told Politics Daily on Sunday. The White House would "definitely have more" information "about official portions of the trip" later in the week, Vietor also said. YDNet, an Israeli news outlet, said Emanuel may meet with Prime Minister Benjamin ...
Lebanese Demonstrators March for Secularism
By David Sessions - Politics DailyFive thousand people, mostly men and women under 30, marched in the streets of Beirut, Lebanon, on Sunday, demanding their country separate religion and politics, The Los Angeles Times reports. Wedged between Israel and Iraq, Lebanon is a nation with a history of tumultuous conflicts with both its Israeli and Arab neighbors. Now, an increasing number of its citizens say they've had enough. "I don't believe religion and politics should be mixed," said Amer Saidi, 28, a student of political science at Lebanese American University. "Religion should not be used as a political tool." Saidi was ...
Voters Back Ratification of Nuclear Arms Treaty With Russia
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyVoters have mixed views of President Barack Obama's recent initiatives to reduce nuclear arsenals, limit the situations in which the United States would use its weapons, and prevent terrorists from getting them. But, a solid majority does support ratification of the arms reduction treaty just signed with Moscow, according to a Quinnipiac University poll conducted April 14-19. Aside from support for the treaty, voters are clearly skeptical about the impact of Obama's policies. Forty-seven percent say they will not make a difference in increasing or decreasing the threat of nuclear weapons, 25 ...
Obama: 'Great Progress' on Nuclear Security, but Mideast Peace Is Another Story
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyPresident Obama closed his two-day Nuclear Security Summit with an upbeat report about the "candor and cooperative spirit" at the 47-nation conclave, and the "great progress" made toward a safer world. He said all participants had agreed on "the urgency and seriousness of the threat" of vulnerable nuclear material and his goal of securing it in four years. But, there was a striking difference in tone by the end of Obama's news conference, when he talked about whether his achievements will help rejuvenate prospects for Middle East peace. The need for it is "as critical as ever," he said, but ...
Joe Biden Plans Middle East Trip
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyVice President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, will travel to the Middle East next month. Biden will visit the region the week of March 8 and meet with key leaders in Israel, the Palestinian Authority, Egypt, and Jordan, according to a White House statement. The vice president will discuss "the full range of bilateral and regional issues" with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Jordan's King Abdullah, the statement said. More details of his trip will be announced later. Biden is expected to push Israelis ...
Israel and Turkey at Diplomatic Loggerheads
By Linda Gradstein - AOL NewsJERUSALEM (Jan. 12) – When you don't have many friends, you usually try hard to keep them. But it seems Israel is doing everything it can to alienate its closest Muslim ally, Turkey. Turkey today demanded an official apology for what it sees as an insult to its ambassador in Tel Aviv. At issue is an incident yesterday, when Israel's deputy foreign minister, Danny Ayalon, summoned Turkey's ambassador for a diplomatic dressing-down over a Turkish TV series that portrayed Israeli diplomats as the head of a child-abduction ring. What enraged the Turks was the setting. Ayalon and two other ...
Arabs Distrust Iran, Not Keen on Sanctions
By Abigail Hauslohner - AOL NewsCAIRO (Dec. 23) -- The always complicated relationship between the Arab world and Iran appears testier than ever as the West's patience wears thin over Iran's nuclear program. "We see ourselves as having an agenda of establishing peace, of building bridges, of establishing ties and coexistence," Egyptian foreign ministry spokesman Hossam Zaki told Sphere. "We do not see the same on the part of Iran." This week, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak met in Cairo with Iran's speaker of the Parliament, Ali Larijani, to discuss improving the two countries' stalled bilateral relations. Egypt has ...
Israel Sees Pattern of Hostility Emerging in Britain
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsLONDON (Dec. 15) -- Israel's relationship with Britain hit a new low Tuesday when it was revealed that a London judge had issued an arrest warrant for former Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni over her role in the Gaza invasion earlier this year. The warrant has embarrassed Britain's government, led Israel to warn that its relations with the United Kingdom are under threat and made some leading British Jews worry that hostility against Israel is rising in the country. "This is part of a generally deteriorating atmosphere toward Israel," says Andrew Balcombe, chairman of the Zionist Federation of ...
Somalia Bomb's Grim Message: Afghanistan Not Sole Threat
By Haley Sweetland Edwards - AOL NewsADEN, Yemen (Dec. 3) -- A suicide bomber's deadly attack at a Mogadishu hotel Thursday not only drives home the fragility of the all-but-failed state of Somalia. It also highlights a problem the U.S. escalation in Afghanistan doesn't address: that al-Qaida's Islamist allies are active far beyond the sway of the Taliban. The attack on one of the Somali capital's few luxury hotels Thursday killed at least 19 people, many of whom were attending a college graduation ceremony. Among the victims were three government ministers, one of whom -- Ibrahim Hassan Adow, the minister of higher education ...
Israel Under Fire for Pushing Arabs Out of East Jerusalem
By Linda Gradstein - AOL NewsJERUSALEM (Dec. 2) - East Jerusalem, at the crux of the conflict between Jews and Palestinians for more than 40 years, is more contested than ever this week in light of several reports that suggest Israel is pursuing a deliberate policy of "judaizing" the city Palestinians view as their future capital. A classified European Union report, leaked to the Israeli daily Ha'aretz, slams Israeli policy in East Jerusalem and calls on EU countries to help strengthen Palestinian claims to the city. The Israeli government is particularly concerned at indications that the EU may soon officially ...
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