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King Abdullah is meeting with US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice. She is visiting Jordan, Israel, Palestine and Egypt. She will brief the King on peace efforts and other issues affecting the region. Rice said their goal was to lay the ground for continued work between the next Israeli government and the incoming Obama administration. [...]
Egypt will host a meeting of Middle East peace mediators in November in the resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh to try to keep peace talks moving, a spokesman for President Hosni Mubarak said on Monday. The so-called Quartet (United States, European Union, Russia and United Nations) has been trying to breathe life into the stalled [...]
Veteran Israeli diplomat and Oslo Accords negotiator, Uri Savir, has a new book out this month on peace building vs peacemaking–Peace First. Appealing for a new kind of creative diplomacy, he proposes the creation of a peace ecology among people. Noting that globalization can draw people together, he suggests that the person on the street [...]
