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NEWS ABOUT: Mideast peace

Mideast peace stories: 12 news summaries
Joe Klein

Mideast Peace Would Justify Obama's Nobel

There's consensus on a deal; the president is the guy to get it done

Oct 16, 09 12:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - With his Nobel Prize, President Obama has once again been celebrated and rewarded for who he’s not (George W. Bush) and who he might be. Although Obama’s preferred foreign policy MO—patient diplomacy on many fronts—doesn’t “lend itself to high drama,” that's exactly what... More »

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Barack Obama • Israel • Middle East • Palestine • West Bank • Israel and Palestinians • Nobel Prize • Nobel Peace Prize • Mideast peace

Palestine Says Hope in Obama 'Evaporated'

Abbas' Fatah Party accuses president
of caving to Israel

Oct 14, 09 8:36 AM CDT
(AP) - The Palestinian president's political party says all hopes in the Obama administration have "evaporated," accusing the White House of caving to pressure from the pro-Israel lobby and backing off a demand to freeze Jewish settlement. Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah Party also accused the US of failing to set a... More »

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Barack Obama • Israel • Mahmoud Abbas • Palestine • Fatah • Palestinians • Mideast peace • President Obama • Jewish settlers • Arab-Israeli conflict • Mohammed Ghneim

 Nobel Jury: 
 Obama Is 
 the Right 
 Choice 

One says of critics: 'Where do these people come from?'

Oct 13, 09 12:58 PM CDT
(AP) - The Nobel panel that gave the peace prize to President Obama is strongly defending its choice amid widespread criticism. "We simply disagree that he has done nothing," said chairman Thorbjoern Jagland. Another of the five panelists said of critics: "Where do these people come from?" The four... More »

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missile shield • Norway • Nobel Prize • Nobel Peace Prize • Mideast peace • President Obama • Nobel laureates • committee • Thornbjoern Jagland

(AP) - President Obama will host a meeting Tuesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in an effort to lay the groundwork for renewed negotiations on Mideast peace. The three-way meeting, which will be on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly forum, will take place... More »

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Mahmoud Abbas • Benjamin Netanyahu • George Mitchell • Israel and Palestinians • Mideast peace • President Obama

(Newser) - Open arms and a full red carpet rollout greeted President Obama on his arrival in Saudi Arabia this morning, but the pleasantries will likely end when the policy talk starts, the New York Times reports. Obama wants the Arab nations to offer a peaceful gesture toward Israel, but Saudi... More »

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Barack Obama • Israel • Middle East • Saudi Arabia • King Abdullah • Egypt • Arab Israeli conflict • Mideast peace • Obama administration

opinion

Don't 'Blackmail' Israel Into Peace Talks Over Iran: Dershowitz

Deal with nukes, then engage with Palestine

May 9, 09 7:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - Clip Iran's nuclear claws first, then press for peace between Israel and Palestine—not the other way around, Alan Dershowitz argues in the New York Post. Reacting to a recent report, Dershowitz says Rahm Emanuel has it backward in putting Israeli-Palestinian talks before negotiations that could denuclearize Iran. "The... More »

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Iran • Alan Dershowitz • Israel and Palestinians • Rahm Emanuel • Mideast peace • Mideast peace talks

(Newser) - Turkey's prime minister stormed off a stage in Davos today during a heated exchange with Israeli President Shimon Peres over Gaza, the New York Times reports. “When it comes to killing, you know well how to kill," Recep Tayyip Erdogan told Peres before walking off, promising never to... More »

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Israel • Turkey • Gaza • Shimon Peres • Recep Tayyip Erdogan • Mideast peace • Davos

France Warns Israel:
Don't Attack Iran

'Talk, talk and more talk' to stop Iranian nuke program, Kouchner urges

Oct 5, 08 7:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - The French foreign minister has urged Israel not to launch an attack on Iranian nuclear facilities, Reuters reports. "There are those" in Israel and the Israeli army "who are preparing for a military attack," Bernard Kouchner told an Israeli newspaper. "That's not the solution." Kouchner,... More »

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Iran • France • nuclear weapons • Bernard Kouchner • Mideast • Mideast peace

 Israel Would Leave Golan: Syria 

Israelis willing to trade disputed territory for peace, Damascus told

Apr 23, 08 4:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - Israel is willing to return the Golan Heights to Syria in return for peace, Reuters reports. A Syrian minister said in a TV interview that the Israeli message was relayed through Turkish president Tayyip Erdogan, set to visit Syria this weekend. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said last week he... More »

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Israel • Syria • Ehud Olmert • Recep Tayyip Erdogan • Arab Israeli conflict • Golan Heights • Mideast peace

Peace Deal Unlikely This Year: Israel

Minister sets sights
on 'declaration'
with Palestine

Feb 11, 08 7:06 PM CST
(Newser) - Israel and Palestine probably won't sign a peace deal this year but could agree on a "declaration of principles," a top Israeli minister said today. The announcement by Vice Prime Minister Haim Ramon follows weeks of warnings that a peace treaty could topple Israeli's coalition government, and that... More »

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Israel • Ehud Olmert • Mahmoud Abbas • Palestine • Mideast peace • peace talks • Haim Ramon • declaration of principles

Bush State of Union to Focus on Economy

Will stress need for recession-buster measures

Jan 28, 08 4:36 AM CST
(Newser) - During his final State of the Union address tonight, President Bush isn't expected to announce any dramatic new policy initiatives—but will emphasize the need for government action to ward off a recession. The speech, entitled “Trust and Empower,” will call on Congress to permanently extend his $1.... More »

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Congress • Democratic Congress • Washington DC • troop withdrawal • State of the Union Address • Mideast peace • economic stimulus package • electronic surveillance laws • free trade agreements • George W. Bush

Stop Iranian Threat Now: Bush

Calls on Arab allies to join US to 'confront danger'

Jan 13, 08 10:03 AM CST
(Newser) - President Bush said today that the US and its Arab allies must stop the threat posed by Iran "before it's too late." Speaking in the United Arab Emirates during his 8-day trip to the Mideast to push his peace plan, Bush called Iran the "world's leading state... More »

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Iran • Taliban • United Arab Emirates • Mideast • Mideast peace • George W. Bush

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