Word: telhami
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...TIME: What is the state of the peace process as Clinton arrives in the Middle East? Telhami: The big picture, whether or not we have short-term violence on the Israeli-Gaza front, is that the time is running out on the two-state solution. Now we have Gaza and the West Bank separated politically between Fatah and Hamas, as well as geographically. We have settlements expanding in the West Bank and around Jerusalem. Israeli-built roads and other infrastructure are transforming the reality on the ground. (See pictures of Gaza after the three-week...
...Secretary of State Hillary Clinton makes her first official visit to the Middle East this week, the prospects for peace are bleak. But Shibley Telhami, a professor of political science at the University of Maryland and a leading U.S.-based authority on Arab-Israeli negotiations, tells TIME that a deal remains within reach. Clinching that deal, says Telhami, co-author of a new report on the U.S.'s role in the peace process for the Brookings Institution and the Council on Foreign Relations, requires urgent action by the U.S. because time is running out on the two-state option...
...Gaza, the militants' terms could be fairly simple: "If Israel stops its raid on Gaza and lifts its closure of the border crossings, we'll go for a truce immediately." But such conciliatory sentiments are not shared by those Hamas military commanders who are on the warpath. Says Shibley Telhami, a Middle East scholar at the University of Maryland: "Hamas, given the scale of the losses, isn't going to turn and accept a cease-fire...
...pivot point into active philanthropy. A real estate developer who calls New York City his hometown, he was particularly interested in tackling the social conditions in the Muslim world that foment support for such violent radicalism--specifically, the lack of jobs. After consulting Middle East scholar Shibley Telhami of the University of Maryland, Bruder concluded that the people most resentful of the U.S. were those who were educated but lacked employment. The time he had spent doing business in Northern Ireland confirmed Bruder's notion that the path to peace and democracy lay not in military intervention or political overhaul...
...jobs in Gaza's crushed economy, so graduates are instead promised posts in nearby countries with Consolidated Contractors Co., an Athens-based multinational that is among the largest builders in the Middle East. The program appealed instantly to CCC director Samer Khoury when he was approached by his friend Telhami on behalf of the foundation. "Eventually," says Khoury, a Palestinian who resides in Athens, "this new generation of skilled workers will return" to build the economy from within, but for now, their remittances from abroad are invaluable. So far, CCC has placed all of the graduates of the Gaza program...