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...Lebanese side, the various factions, including Hizballah, had made a breakthrough of sorts last week by agreeing to back the Siniora government as its single representative in any negotiations. Indeed, even after Sunday?s incident at Qana, Dr. Mohammad Chatah, senior advisor to the Prime Minister told Time that ?nothing has changed as far as the position of the government on the underlying issues.? However, the Qana incident was a ?war crime.? Said Chatah, ?You cannot fight a war by killing civilians. We want this to end. And it can end. Our plan is still...
What’s more, the debate in Foreign Policy featured a very prominent former U.S. government official taking sides with Walt and Mearsheimer. Zbigniew Brzezinski, the national security advisor under former President Carter, agreed that domestic pro-Israel lobbies are powerful, and that their influence was felt acutely at peace negotiations between Israel and Arab nations that were brokered...
...every word in diplomacy is carefully chosen, so there may be more to Rice's surprising statement than anyone will admit. Perhaps Rice's willingness to talk about ceasefire had to do with the Sunday afternoon meeting between President Bush, National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley, Rice and Prince Saud Al Faisal, the Saudi foreign minister; Prince Bandar, the regime's top national security official; and Prince Turki, the Saudi Ambassador to the U.S. The trio delivered a letter from Saudi King Abdullah to Bush. And though its content has not been made public, the Saudi government has made no secret...
...have abandoned the effort to resupply or evacuate residents of southern villages because of the conditions of the roads and the Israeli shelling and air strikes. "We are in close contact with the Israelis to request safe passage but their answer has not been forthcoming," says Milos Strugar, senior advisor to the UN force, known as UNIFIL...
...intensity of the conflict has prevented UNIFIL from dispatching more humanitarian convoys, although Milos Strugar, UNIFIL's senior advisor, says that they intend to send them out anyway."We are doing the best we can under the circumstances," he tells TIME...