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...trickiness of the political climate was apparent earlier in the week, when Iraq's President, who is a Kurd, its Sunni Arab vice president and the leader of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) met in northern Iraq and denounced the Turkish raids. "We condemn operations and they should be ended as soon as possible," said Massoud Barzani, the KRG head. But the condemnation was not as full-throated as it could have been. President Jalal Talibani stressed that Iraqis valued Turkey's friendship, and said that he hoped problems could be addressed through diplomacy...
...share a distant Central Asian past and little else.) More recently, Turkey has demanded that Iraq's Kurds rid northern Iraq of the PKK, a job that the government-sanctioned Kurdish peshmerga militias are unable to do. The peshmerga are currently overstretched in Baghdad and Mosul trying to keep Arab insurgents from entering Kurdistan. (Iraqi Kurds tried to expel the PKK in the 1990's, but, like the Turkish army, they failed...
Jerusalem's Jewish leaders should treat Arab residents of the city as equals to end the suffering and anguish that is poisoning life in our Holy City and Holy Land. By our, I speak for all Christians, Muslims and Jews (in no particular order). Daniel Berenyi, HONOLULU...
...ever. The investments by GIC and Abu Dhabi, part of the United Arab Emirates, marks a turning point of sorts for SWFs. These enormous pools of wealth, controlled by governments in countries that have been getting fat off high oil prices and a booming global economy, are viewed suspiciously by those who fear foreign powers might use them to gain competitive advantages or push political agendas. But now, thanks in part to the bank deals, some fears have been allayed; companies in need of capital are courting investments from oil- and gas-rich states such as Abu Dhabi and Russia...
...Jerusalem's Jewish leaders should treat Arab residents of the city as equals to end the suffering and anguish that is poisoning life in our Holy City and Holy Land. By our, I speak for all Christians, Muslims and Jews (in no particular order). Daniel Berenyi, Honolulu...