Word: summiteer
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...rest of the bad news coming out of the Gulf, and things look pretty grim. The "surge," despite what some claim, has barely made a dent in the violence in Iraq. Our Arab allies are jumping ship, apparently as fast as they can. At the opening of the Arab summit on Wednesday, Saudi King Abdallah accused the U.S of illegally occupying Iraq. The day before, the leader of the United Arab Emirates sent his foreign minister to Tehran to tell the Iranians he would not allow the U.S. to use UAE soil to attack Iran. That leaves us with Kuwait...
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas flew to the Arab Summit in Riyadh today leaving behind angry Palestinian comrades in his wake. Abbas wimped out on them, they say. Before U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived last Saturday in the Middle East, Abbas was coached by Fatah's governing Central Committee on how to talk tough with the Americans - not a specialty for Abbas, who is convivial but evasive...
...Arab summit in Riyadh, Abbas is backing a revived Saudi initiative that offers Israel peace with all Arab nations if it returns to its pre-1967 war borders and allows thousands of Palestinian refugees to return home. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says he is open to some aspects of the plan, but not the "right of return" for Palestinians since they would swamp the Jewish state. The Saudis urged Israel to accept, or else. Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal said, "If Israel refuses, that means it doesn't want peace. Then [the conflict] goes back into the hands...
...meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and other Arab leaders over the rest of the weekend and into Monday. Soon after touching down, she went behind closed doors to talk with Arab foreign ministers and intelligence chiefs. Rice will urge Arab leaders, who are scheduled to hold a summit in Riyadh on Wednesday, March 28, to revive a 2002 proposal by the Arab League to recognize Israel in exchange for major concessions on the Palestinian issue. Only she wants them to put some action behind the words of the offer. The League never set up a team to negotiate with...
...apparent in Mexico, home to a conservative new President, Felipe Calderon, whom Bush was counting on for his warmest reception. What he got instead was a tense tour finale. Bush apparently hadn't read many of Calderon's remarks in the months and weeks leading up to their Yucatan summit this week - such as his comparing a Bush-approved, 700-mile-long border fence to the Berlin Wall, or calling the illegal immigration issue an "open wound" for U.S.-Mexico relations. Calderon defeated his own left-wing opponent last summer by only half a percentage point, and few countries feel...