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...bold and irreversible step, Sadat’s journey to Jerusalem and address to the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, shattered the pan-Arab front of no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, and no negotiations with Israel. Though a peace agreement took several years, Sadat’s visit had proved to Israelis that there was no turning back, that the frontier had been breached, and Sadat had cast...
...country constantly on the verge of civil war and invasion does not need two contending governments. But that is the dangerous scenario facing Lebanon this week. On Wednesday, members of the country's parliament are scheduled to vote on a replacement for Emile Lahoud, whose term ends midnight Friday. By unwritten agreement in this deeply sectarian nation, the President must be a Maronite Christian (the Prime Minister must be Sunni; the speaker of the assembly Shi'ite). Lahoud was an advocate of the policies of neighboring Syria, which until 2005 was the overlord of Lebanon...
...Minister John Howard's anointed successor has shown he can wait for the top job - but for how much longer? Praised for piling up budget surpluses and introducing a Goods and Services Tax, Costello is set to be Coalition leader by the next election. Though a witty performer in Parliament, he often seems dour outside it, and is yet to test his popularity with voters as a potential national leader - or map out what kind of P.M. he would be.
...Minister Benazir Bhutto, have renewed calls for the general's ouster. This two-pronged attack on Musharraf's political plans came on the same day that he presided over the swearing-in of a caretaker government to run the country until parliamentary elections slated for early January. Pakistan's parliament dissolved at midnight on Thursday, completing its full five-year term for the first time in the country's history. And Musharraf, the general-turned-President who overthrew Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in 1999, claimed credit for restoring democracy in Pakistan. "I take pride in the fact that, being...
Former member of the Dutch Parliament, free-speech activist and author of the memoir Infidel...