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...government - probably through non-Hamas ministers - while the Saudis and Egyptians, mindful of the need to prevent Iran from becoming the main patron of the Palestinian cause, would offer financial and diplomatic support and persaude the U.S. to change its position. The text of the platform thanks Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the E.U. for its support - Syria as well - and hopes for better relations with China, Japan, and Russia. (It also "calls on the United States administration to reconsider its unjust positions towards the Palestinian cause.") In response, Regev, the Israel's Foreign Ministry spokesman, asks the international community...
...inquest, which has been postponed several times for a series of police investigations in France and Britain, is due to start in May. "I am encouraged by today's judgment and now hope that justice can be done without further attempts to impair the process," the Egypt-born Al Fayed said in his statement. "All I have ever asked for is fair play. When I grew up, fair play was said to be the unofficial religion of the British Empire. It may have been then, but I have seen precious little of it since...
...speech in Egypt, Rice famously said, "For 60 years, my country, the United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy in this region ... and we achieved neither." Unfortunately, the epitaph for her work in this Administration will be a perverse twist on that: for eight years, our country has pursued democracy at the expense of stability, and we lost both. Stephen E. Phillips New York City...
...guided other Arab bloggers" and that, despite limited numbers, the influence and popularity of Arab bloggers "have exceeded all expectations. The blogs act as a pain in the tooth for many Arab governments which fear citizens gaining the means to reveal their illegal and anti-democratic practices." Dismayed by Egypt's conviction of Kareem, Eid told TIME, "It is a gloomy day for all the advocates of freedom of expression not only in Egypt but also in the whole world...