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...Little has changed in the Israeli-Palestinian deadlock over the past two years. Despite some reshuffling of personnel on the Palestinian side and new language from Sharon, there is little sign thus far that the two opponents have made any progress in resolving their basic standoff over how to end terror attacks and restore Israeli security, let alone their sharply divergent visions of where the boundaries would be drawn between Israel and a Palestinian state. The change that has brought the two sides to the table now has occurred in Washington, where the Bush administration has concluded that...
...With no clear grounds for compromise, the standoff could take years to resolve - if the two sides can even keep talking. North Korea wants security guarantees and aid from the U.S. Washington wants "a verifiable and irreversible end" to nuclear-weapons development before it offers Pyongyang much of anything. A diplomatic solution seems in some ways even more unattainable with North Korea than it was with Iraq. And trying to impose regime change on a nuclear-armed rogue state seems unthinkable. A quick, clean surgical strike to take out the Yongbyon nuclear facility would not end the weapons threat...
...come to naught, and if anything, the conflict is even more intractable now. The "roadmap" concept may be an attempt to bridge Israeli and Palestinian concerns by linking a cease-fire to a "political horizon" for Palestinian statehood, but it contains no new magic formula for resolving the basic standoff over security...
...down. Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai criticized the planned visit, saying the only solution to the current emergency was for Mugabe to negotiate with his Movement for Democratic Change. In recent weeks the government has waged a campaign of violent intimidation against MDC supporters following two opposition-led nationwide strikes. Standoff Ends nigeria Striking Nigerian oil workers began releasing some 300 hostages held for two weeks aboard four offshore oil rigs. The crisis ended after an agreement between the oil workers' union and the rigs' owners, U.S.-based Transocean company. Hostage taking is not uncommon in the Southern Niger Delta, where...
...West Bank built since 2001. The parties move quickly from there toward negotiating the final parameters of Palestinian statehood as early as 2005. But the map does not answer the basic question of how the two sides are to get past their inability to resolve the security standoff. The Bush administration had insisted on Abbas's confirmation as the precondition for publishing the document, but Israeli security chiefs and Palestinian political analysts tend to share a pessimistic view of the new prime minister's ability to rein in terror attacks. Palestinian security structures are in disarray, Abbas faces considerable domestic...