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...told Fortune. And in his first speech after cementing the nomination, Obama assured the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a prominent Jewish group, that he would like to see Jerusalem "remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided," a surprisingly hawkish declaration that outraged the Arab world and Arab-Americans and appeared to contradict earlier statements he had made. He seemed to recognize his overreaching the next day, when he dialed back his rhetoric and told CNN that the fate of Jerusalem should be decided by Israelis and Palestinians through the peace process...
Prime Minister of Egypt from 1978 to 1980, Mustafa Khalil was instrumental in the negotiations between Israel and Egypt at Camp David that ultimately resulted in a peace accord in 1979, the first such agreement between Israel and an Arab nation. A government official for more than 50 years, Khalil paid a visit to Jerusalem in 1977, which set in motion the later meetings in the U.S. orchestrated by President Jimmy Carter. Following the historic peace process, Khalil stayed politically active until last fall, when he retired from his role as deputy chairman of Egypt's ruling National Democratic Party...
...after U.S. troops first set foot there, the reconstruction of Afghanistan is at best a work in progress. That of Iraq has hardly advanced beyond a blueprint - or, rather, many of them. In the Middle East, neither the democracy which the Bush team was supposed to promote, nor the Arab-Israeli peace such democracy was supposed to engender, is much in evidence. It's no wonder - most Europeans will think - that Bush wants to shift the subject to combatting HIV/AIDS and malaria...
...clear what's at stake. If the U.S. or Israel so much as drops a bomb on one of its reactors or its military training camps, Iran will shut down Gulf oil exports by launching a barrage of Chinese Silkworm missiles on tankers in the Strait of Hormuz and Arab oil facilities. In the worst case scenario, seventeen million barrels of oil would come off world markets...
Dunkin' Donuts ad pulled after RACHAEL RAY accused of wearing Arab scarf...