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S. Farah, for Syria Comment In a recent interview with the BBC, President Bashar al Assad cautioned the European capitals that they stand to lose their ability to exert influence in the Middle East if they lose their credibility. European credibility and its commitment to the values it professes are being tested today in Gaza. [...]
Syria is being asked to get Hamas to renounce violence and recognize Israel as a test of its power and good will to the Obama administration, explains Khaled Oweis, who has spoken with diplomats in Damascus. Aaron David Miller, says naming George J. Mitchell as the new special envoy for Arab-Israeli issues shows the Obama administration [...]
For the last five years or so, I have been actively working with Jewish colleagues in the US and elsewhere to help broker a lasting reconciliation between Israel and its Arab neighbors. But in the wake of the carnage in Gaza, it is impossibly difficult to be optimistic about the future of the peace process [...]
James Baker: Obama Has to Get Hamas Involved Peace Process, By Mehtap GUZEL, JTW James A. Baker, former Secretary of State and former Treasury Secretary, told the Newsweek magazine that new American President Barack Hussein Obama must Hamas involved the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Baker said in the interview “you cannot negotiate peace with only half [...]
Visit to Beit Sawa with Mustapha Dispatch from Damascus 14 (17/1/09) By Ali Khan We have already had our first mid-term exam at the university. So far, I think that the program is very good at the lower levels but for the higher levels it is less organised and the teachers could be a bit [...]
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