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Syrian top officials praise president-elect Obama’s choice of Hillary Clinton for Secretary of State. They see in this Obama’s seriousness for achieving peace in the Middle East. Progressive liberals back home however, who have backed the Obama candidacy for President are not happy with his choice. Of course, they too want peace in the Middle [...]
In this age of a shift in power in the United States, our President-elect has made the worrisome—and perhaps wise decision–to appoint many familiar names and faces to his new administration. In doing so however, he must be careful not to make the same mistakes of his predecessors. In respect of the Middle East, he [...]
Israel’s February’s election will be an important one for Washington and the new Obama administration. Though the Likud Party is the more conservative, the Kadima Party, with which Bush has worked most recently, has promoted an accelerated “two state solution.” The Bush Administration has agreed with this approach. Critics say that because of President Bush’s [...]
The reaction of Turkish officials to Barack Obama’s choice of statesmen is positive, especially that of Hillary Clinton. “The announcement on Clinton is due to come at a news conference in Chicago,” said officials on Obama’s transition team. The incoming president has also asked Robert Gates, the current defense secretary, to keep his job for [...]
Iran’s Vice President Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie told Tokyo Koyodu News Agency that President Ahmadinejad would welcome talks with President-elect Barack Obama, as long as the talks are held openly and their contents made fully available to the press. Ahmadinejad has stated that he believes face-to-face diplomacy to be the most successful means to achieving a [...]
Syria and Israel are both willing to sit down and talk. However, they want U.S. support and they want it in the form of Obama.
Israel is willing to negotiate with Syria and possibly return the now-occupied Golan Heights, if Syria agrees to stop aiding Hezbollah and Hamas in Lebanon and Palestine, groups that sponsor terrorism.
This is [...]
The U.S. Senate’s approval of Gene Cretz as the new ambassador to Libya, late Thursday, November 20, marks the first time in 36 years that the United States will have an ambassador in Libya, concluding the long road to diplomat relations between the two countries. However, throughout the Arab world, there are mixed and cautious [...]
Syrian Ambassador, Bashar Ja’afari, praised Obama’s announcement that he planned on making good on a promise that he made one of the major platforms of his presidential campaign: to withdraw troops from Iraq in sixteen months.
This shows a level of respect and acknowledgment of the wishes of the people of the Middle East. In addition, [...]
Two-weeks after the historic presidential election in the U.S., in which President-Elect Barack Obama became the first man of African descent to be elected to the office, Germany had a historic moment of its own. Derek Scally became the first ethnic Turk to be elected to the head of a political party. As leader [...]
Finally, after a year of negotiations, a pact has been reached regarding a timetable for American troop presence in Iraq. The agreement was agreed upon Sunday by President al-Maliki and his cabinet. Now the deal must make it through Iraqi parliament this week to be considered binding. Still, this is a major benchmark in the [...]
