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...well-off dominant parties have not been shy about throwing their money around, including a major media campaign featuring prominent Kurdish entertainers. Observers are waiting to see if the dominant parties get enough votes to retain control of parliament and the KRG presidency; and, if not, whether they will transfer control. The outcome could well decide how much of an exemplar to the Middle East the Kurds will continue...
...fact, to some degree such recognition is already happening—in the past three weeks, legislators of the ruling Grand National Party have joined the traditionally less Washington-friendly Democratic Party to ask America for a reconsideration of the 2012 transfer...
...addresses in Prague, Cairo and Moscow returned to the fore. Obama described a future anchored in institutions of governance and international agreement, where tribal identities would be subsumed by a common sense of humanity and international economics would turn old national competitions into alliances. He portrayed the peaceful transfer of power in competitive democracies as the next step in Africa's century-long emergence from the shackles of colonial rule. "This progress may lack the drama of the 20th century's liberation struggles," he said. "But make no mistake: it will ultimately be more significant. For just...
...have made some progress on other aspects of restarting a peace process. The Israeli leader has finally accepted the idea of a Palestinian state, albeit with limited sovereignty, and he has signaled an intent to ease the Gaza blockade, remove some West Bank roadblocks, release some Palestinian prisoners and transfer more security responsibility in West Bank towns to Palestinian forces. But in publicly and repeatedly demanding a settlement freeze, even after Israel objected, Obama has made it not only a test of Netanyahu's bona fides as a peacemaker, but also of U.S. credibility. The President hasn't left himself...
...Lieberman seems to have tempered his views, saying that today the "transfer of populations" is neither "acceptable nor possible." He said that even if a Palestinian state were created, Arabs would still be welcome inside Israel, where they currently account for 18% of the population. "Maybe some Arabs would prefer to go to a Palestinian state, but if some want to be Israeli citizens, that's their right," he said...