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...have Jordanian passports. The rush was telling; however much Arabs may feel harassed by Israelis, they fear that annexation of East Jerusalem by the current thuggish Palestinian leadership would lead to a spillover of the chaos and murderous political feuds that plague the West Bank and Gaza Strip, with rival militias fighting over spoils in the holy city. A new "Berlin Wall," says Seidemann, would devastate those who live in East Jerusalem. The average yearly income on the Arab east side is $4,000. That is far lower than the $19,000 a year earned by a typical Israeli...
Facebook's inclusiveness has broadened its popular appeal, but the alchemy of the Web is converting eyeballs to dollars via the "click-throughs" that advertisers crave--and the social nets are still searching for the magic formula. Members of both Facebook and its chief rival, MySpace, spend on average about 3 1/2 hours a month clicking around on each site, but they get so caught up in checking out their friends' pages and updating their own that they are less likely to click through to the ads. What's more, Facebook may not be able to keep up the momentum...
...interests of its Syrian and Iranian backers. Meanwhile, pro-Western, anti-Syrian politicians threaten to elect a President from their own camp if the opposition rejects a consensus candidate. Hizballah and its allies say they will not recognize an anti-Syrian President and hint they will form a rival government instead...
Last week, Cardinal Nasrallah Sfeir, the influential patriarch of the Maronite church, composed a list at France's behest of potential names from which the rival parliamentary blocs could select a President. The list allegedly includes candidates favored by both factions as well as some independent names. So far no potential consensus candidate has emerged as both camps continue to press for their own choices for the presidency...
With time running out, many jaded Lebanese are pinning their hopes on the election of a consensus president, even if that means prolonging Lebanon's political and economic impasse. Better that, they say, than the very real possibility that the emergence of two rival governments will spark street violence and possibly civil war. They know that even if consensus over a President is reached, it will not signal the end of Lebanon's grinding political crisis. The confrontation will move onto the identity of the next Prime Minister, the formation of the new government, and key appointments in the security...