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Here's a scary fact to add to today's gloomy stock-market headlines: bank stocks might actually be providing a boost to the market, even as it tumbles to new lows. By at least one measure, financial firms are making the bad earnings caused by the economy look a bit rosier...
...there any positive trends? Despite the results of the Israeli elections, a majority of Israelis still support the two-state solution. Israeli public opinion from right to left has come to believe that they cannot indefinitely maintain control of the West Bank and maintain Israel as a Jewish democratic state. And almost all Arab states are now anxious to see a peace deal...
...Then what's holding up an agreement in which Israel would return the West Bank in exchange for peace with the Palestinians? The devil is in the details. While they have in principle come to agree that West Bank and Gaza will be a Palestinian state, there are other things that are important like actual boundaries, the future of Jewish settlements, the return of Palestinian refugees and the status of Jerusalem...
...Respite of sorts came to the region last week when a $31 billion package was announced by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the World Bank. But World Bank President Robert Zoellick says East European banks need $140 billion of fresh capital, much of which may have to come from Western Europe...
...come up with an effective answer? Its fudged response so far is partly down to a lack of institutional architecture: the European Central Bank, for example, has far fewer resources than the U.S. Federal Reserve, while the European Commission can only work with the budget provided by E.U. member states. At the same time, leaders like Sarkozy, Merkel and Brown have been too busy putting out fires at home to provide strong leadership out of the crisis...