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...achieved global renown in 1991 when he led the Palestinian delegation to the Madrid peace conference, the first ever face-to-face meeting of Israeli and Arab adversaries. Doctor turned negotiator Haidar Abdel Shafi, above, the rare secular leader respected by rival Palestinian factions, resigned in 1993 over the Oslo peace agreements with Israel, which he said failed to address the issue of Jewish settlements on disputed land...
...extend massive assistance to those governments to help fund shelter, food, sanitation, health care and transportation for arriving Iraqis. Among the 200,000 Iraqi children who have fled to Jordan, only 20,000 started school in the past year, and 6,000 of them dropped out. As the Israeli-Palestinian conflict should have taught us, the grievances of refugees may start as humanitarian concerns, but they quickly become security problems...
...with the Shi'a Muslim militant group's attempt to rearm itself for the seemingly never-ending struggle with Israel, has found common cause with those Christians who have been suspicious of the Lebanese government's alliance with America. (Many Christians worry that the U.S. wants to permanently resettle Palestinian refugees - most of whom are Muslims - in Lebanon...
...happens, being the target of four police probes could prove too much, even for Olmert's prodigious chutzpah, forcing him to resign. He will be too busy fighting legal battles to provide the kind of steely-eyed helmsmanship that Israelis demand from a leader who must deal with the Palestinian conflict and regional enemies Syria and Hezballah...
...still consolidating his hold on Likud after recent party elections, while Barak is using his post as acting defense minister to convince Israelis that he is no longer the one-time peacemaker who, when he was Prime Minister from 1999 to 2001, was prepared to cut generous deals with Palestinian militants. The newly minted Barak is now wary of any negotiations with Palestinians and wants to impose harsher sanctions on the 1.5 million Palestinians who live under control of Hamas militants in Gaza. Both rivals are willing to wait until Olmert's troubles become so tangled that he falls without...