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...eloquently expressing my frustration with elected officials who don't know how to stop politicking and start governing. Is it naive to think they can learn? That is what the American people want - except for the politicians. Cyndy Calkins Aurora, Colorado, U.S. Unpresidential Outburst The verbal attack by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the President of Iran, in which he declared, " Israel must be wiped off the map" [Nov. 7], was unworthy of a man in his position of leadership and invited much international criticism. Does Ahmadinejad really believe a country can just be obliterated from the face of the earth? The mighty...
...Monday, Rice met with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon as well as with other senior officials, and also with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, pressing both sides to find the "will and creativity" to open not only Rafah but all the gateways in and out of Gaza and the West Bank...
...conciliatory approach to the Palestinians than Sharon's. Opponents lampooned him during the campaign, saying it was impossible to imagine the roughhewn Peretz meeting with President Bush to discuss the peace process. But Peretz told TIME that he'll cut out the middleman and talk directly to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas...
...Rice also announced Friday that she would make another detour from her planned itinerary. On Monday, after meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Sharon and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, and a memorial service marking the tenth anniversary of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Rice plans to stop in Amman, Jordan, to offer King Abdullah her condolences for Wednesday's suicide bombings, and also counter-terror assistance...
Memo to World: Iran's new President is a radical, after all. When Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won an upset victory in June, his foreign-policy views were a mystery. A 48-year-old civil engineer who had become Tehran's populist mayor in 2003, he focused on domestic rather than international issues. But last week, Ahmadinejad stunned diplomats with the sort of outburst expected from a terrorist, not a President. At a conference in Tehran called "The World Without Zionism," Ahmadinejad told 4,000 students that "Israel must be wiped off the map." Afterwards, he joined 30,000 Iranians...