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...corruption. There needs to be some shock therapy so that the people know that this government is serious about corruption ... We want to improve the investment climate, starting with political stability, improved security, good taxation and economic policies, and legal certainty?sanctity of contracts, and that all dispute-settlement systems are fair...
...Palestinian aspirations for statehood are unfulfilled. Here too the candidates' positions differ only in degree: Kerry says, if elected, he would appoint an envoy to the Middle East to restart the peace process, but like Bush, he backs Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's refusal to negotiate a permanent settlement while Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat remains in power...
...answer is settlement: the time when, about 6,000 years ago, mankind turned from a nomadic to an agricultural way of life. That was the moment, Cope says, when man began to assert some kind of existential control: "When we started putting stones around the campfire, when the hearth became the center of life, when suddenly the heavens started moving around us instead of them changing as we moved across the landscape...
...Israel, we are trying to retreat from the settlement map… to dismantle settlements. When it comes to peace, you make concession, and you think you have to negotiate not only with the opposite number. The truth is you have to negotiate with your own people. It is very difficult to explain to somebody that if you want to make peace, don’t win too much...
...support the Palestinian uprising by attacking Israel and the U.S. Mohammed Salah, an Egyptian expert on Islamic groups, notes that the Sinai operation targeted a number of key interests of al-Qaeda's sworn enemies: the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, Egypt's promotion of a comprehensive Middle East peace settlement and the security of Israel and Egypt, Washington's two key allies in the region. Says Salah: "This attack is one that aimed to kill 10 birds with one stone." --By Scott MacLeod. With reporting by Amany Radwan, Jamil Hamad and Aharon Klein