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...negotiating a way for the embassy to operate safely and allay Iraq's concerns about what it says is a pattern of excessive use of force by Blackwater. "They are working toward mechanisms that might allow us to address these issues together," she said during an overnight flight to Jerusalem, where she is meeting with Israeli and Palestinian leaders in the run-up to a possible November summit...
...deal with their humanitarian needs." But aid officials are skeptical that the moves being weighed by Israel such as turning off the power supply will hurt only militants and not the Palestinian civilians, many of them refugees, crowded into the narrow Gaza Strip. One international aid representative in Jerusalem denounced the plan as "nothing less than collective punishment," while U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged Israel to reconsider, warning that "such a step would be contrary to Israel's obligations towards the civilian population under international humanitarian and human rights...
...spite of the surprises that Rice found on the ground in Jerusalem, a senior State Department official familiar with the negotiations was unbowed in pushing for peace talks this fall. "We've got plenty of time," said the official, "the way these things work it may not come together for a while. We wouldn?t be coming here if it wasn't for a purpose," adding, there is "some sense of pregnant opportunity...
...Affairs Committee, a group that Walt and Mearsheimer say is the central part of the lobby—and, indeed, calls itself “America’s Pro-Israel Lobby”—has said it will not respond to the book, according to The Jerusalem Post...
...ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker said he didn't think that it would be possible to hold a referendum on the status of Kirkuk this year. Iraqi Kurds consider the oil-rich city of Kirkuk - which is currently under control of the central government of Baghdad - to be the "Jerusalem" of Kurdistan, stolen from them by a Ba'athist ethnic-cleansing campaign in the 1980s. The Kurds have made the return of Kirkuk a central precondition to their participation in a federal Iraq, and will regard any delay as a betrayal. But then again, they are used to betrayal...