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...died, Abdullah Franji, 14, was fasting in accordance with the rule followed by religious Muslims to forswear food on a Thursday. Before dawn that day last November, he sat before his mother to recite the chapter of the Koran his teacher had assigned him to memorize. "If two parties of the believers contend with one another, do ye endeavor to compose the matter between them," he recited, rocking back and forth as an aid to memory. Abdullah stumbled, and Wafa Franji, a teacher of the Koran herself, told him, "It's a little weak, Abdullah." The boy kissed...
...Abdullah proposed that he and Bush join forces on an eight-point peace plan designed to shake Israelis and Palestinians out of their death clinch. Bush balked at the scope and speed of the Saudi proposal, but Abdullah's mission had some impact. On Friday, after a week of making pro-Israeli sounds, Bush expressed new frustration with Jerusalem's slow withdrawal from the West Bank. "It's time to end this," he said...
...Already the diplomatic initiative in the region has passed from Washington to, of all places, the normally unwakable Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh. Crown Prince Abdullah gave Cheney "an earload full" at a private dinner in Houston on Wednesday - urging the Veep to abandon the Administration's pro-Israel tilt. And when Abdullah met with the President in Crawford, Texas, on Thursday, there were even signs that the old Bush charm had lost its purchase. Accounts of the 5-hr. meeting vary dramatically. According to two sources, Abdullah surprised Bush with three handouts - a photo album and two videocassettes - each...
...about dangling an international offer of diplomatic recognition for Palestine. If it helps Colin Powell coax the Israelis and Palestinians back to negotiations, the dramatic gesture would be valuable. But it may not have any lasting effect on two sides so hate-soaked and at odds. When Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia offered in February to broker Israel's peace with the Arabs in exchange for a Palestinian state, the plan was applauded as a step forward--although land-for-peace has been the bedrock premise for ending the conflict since 1967. Now even that basic idea...
...Egyptian army?" the government cut off most contacts with Israel. "When it comes to decision making," says Egyptian government spokesman Nabil Osman, "we listen to public opinion." In Jordan, authorities prevented a potentially volatile march on the Israeli embassy in Amman with a massive deployment of security forces. King Abdullah II's government says it is considering options including the expulsion of Israel's ambassador. Queen Rania, herself a Jordanian of Palestinian origin, even led one protest. Anger has turned to violence in some Middle Eastern countries. In the small Persian Gulf nation of Bahrain, where the U.S. maintains...