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...schedule a White House visit by Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the dead of night on Monday, because right now Obama has little to show for his 10-month effort to revive a Middle East peace process. The Israeli leader's refusal to abide by Washington's demand for a complete freeze of settlement construction in the West Bank and East Jerusalem - and the Palestinians' refusal to enter talks without one - has left the Obama Administration's plans in tatters, with Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas threatening to resign and pull the plug...
...Abrams and other Middle East hands believe that no Israeli leader could have accepted the settlement-freeze demand, which Obama also made a centerpiece of his outreach to the Muslim world in his Cairo speech last April. Accepting Washington's demand would have brought down Netanyahu's government, says Abrams. Nor were the Arabs ready to reach out to Israel. "[The Administration] made it worse by not having a very good learning curve," says Abrams. "It was already clear last spring that Netanyahu was not going to accept the settlement freeze, and in June, when Obama visited Saudi Arabia...
...fellowship might mitigate some of the anxiety that Law School graduates have experienced since large law firms—predominant employers of HLS grads—have been particularly hard hit by a sharp fall in demand for legal work in the financial industry during the recent recession...
...caught speaking to a corruption suspect on a KPK phone tap, the police have been trying to discredit the group. On Oct. 29, two KPK commissioners, Chandra Hamzah and Bibit Samad Rianto, were arrested on charges of abuse of authority and taking bribes. Several days later, with public demand growing for an investigation, SBY established a special team of academics, lawyers and a former police official to "verify the facts" surrounding the case...
...President Barack Obama's two-day trip to Japan this week, people in other parts of the country have already sent the American President a message. On Sunday, thousands of Japanese - with estimates ranging from 6,000 to 21,000 - gathered in the Okinawan city of Nago to demand that U.S. military personnel, who have been continuously stationed on the island since 1945, find a new place...