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...Aden. You will note that the territory covering 5.25 million miles belongs to states of the Arab League—18 independent Arab states and three part-Arab Muslim states, Mauritania, Somalia, and Djibouti. There is one holdout in that hegemony: Along the Mediterranean, south of Lebanon, east of Egypt, and west of Jordan, is the 8,000 square mile Jewish state of Israel—the only Jewish homeland that ever was and ever will be. The population of Israel, 7 million, is 20 percent Arab. The ratio of Arab to Jewish land is 640:1. If I were...
...Middle East commentary. Every negotiation seems to be the "last chance" for peace. Every crisis seems to threaten the outbreak of a major war, if not the great apocalypse. But there's reason to pay attention to the warnings this time. The 1979 Camp David peace treaty between Egypt and Israel planted the seed for resolving the core of the conflict: the creation of an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Arab territories seized by Israel in the 1967 war. But if the Annapolis conference fails to provide urgently needed nourishment, the two-state solution...
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Part of the way countries stack up results from how the WEF weights a nation's scores according to its stage of development. A fundamentals-driven economy like Egypt or Bolivia is judged more on basic requirements such as the reliability of police services and electricity supply; an efficiency-driven economy like Brazil or Latvia is gauged more by measures such as Internet access in schools and strength of investor protection; and an innovation-driven economy like France or South Korea sees more weight put on more sophisticated issues such as company R&D spending and marketing...
...Watch the scenes of flight over the skyline—announcements on metallic blimps, animated Coke ads on building edifices, and plumes of fire spitting out of mysterious towers. Watch the deep orange sunset that makes rooms of the future look like something out of Ancient Egypt. Watch the crowd scenes, full of extras so diverse (Who are those Asians on the bicycles? Is that a Hasidic Jew? Where do those punks hang out at night?) that the city feels more like a fully fleshed-out parallel universe than a prediction of the future...