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Agreements in the Middle East, whether they appear minor or are hailed as breakthroughs, inevitably enter a "prove it" phase, a time when parties must deliver on obligations, uphold promises, and work through thorny questions. That time is now for the Feb. 8 Mecca Agreement that dramatically announced a Palestinian unity government. In Jordan Wednesday, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said he believed Fatah and its rival organization Hamas could deliver. Some important positions in the new government are basically decided; Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh will remain Prime Minister, for instance. But, Abbas conceded, "there is a lot of work...
...foible you can make is wearing clothes that are too big or too small,” he says.But don’t call us disappointed. Maybe we hate the clothes, maybe the girls were dangerously emaciated, but that hasn’t tainted our religious experience at the Mecca of all runway shows.Feb. 3, 12:15 p.m.Until now, we haven’t witnessed the “Zoolander”-esque ridiculousness that defines a stereotypical fashion show. Where is the Mugatu-styled hair? The “Derelicte” high fashion concepts? The brainwashed assassination attempts...
...Share, Curator of the Woodberry Poetry Room and Poetry Editor of the Harvard Review—a literary magazine—agrees that Harvard fosters a prime atmosphere for writers, but goes one step further, seeing Cambridge as a Mecca for poets...
...face, the agreement signed in Mecca between Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas of the Fatah party and Khaled Meshal of Hamas, falls far short of the principles of the international mediating group known as the Quartet, composed of the U.S., United Nations, European Union and Russia, that a unity government must recognize Israel, reject violence and commit itself to the peace process. The Mecca talks, convened by Saudi King Abdullah, resulted in a Hamas pledge to "respect" previous Palestinian agreements to engage in peace talks with Israel. But Hamas leaders pointedly did not embrace Quartet demands that they concede Israel...
...Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk, now director of the Brookings Institutions' Saban Center for Middle East Policy, argues that the Mecca accord is a "considerable embarrassment" for Rice and a setback for her hopes of brokering Israeli-Palestinian talks that will lay the groundwork for the establishment of a peaceful Palestinian state. State Department officials said today that Rice still plans to travel to Jerusalem Feb. 19 for Israeli-Palestinian-U.S. trilateral talks with Abbas, [popularly known as Abu Mazen] and Israeli President Ehud Olmert...