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For what may be the last time, Mahmoud Abbas and Ehud Olmert are meeting to discuss prospects for a peace settlement. The BBC notes that “Mr Olmert, facing corruption claims, said he will step down after his Kadima party chooses his successor.” The handover of power is expected to come on Wednesday. The Jerusalem Post [...]
According to the United Nations Special Representative to Cyprus, considerable progress has been made toward a full-scale attempt to re-unify the island, which has been split into the Turkish Cypriot North and Greek Cypriot South since 1974. The leader of each part of the island, along with UN Representative Alexander Downer, met on September 3rd [...]
The New York Times published yesterday that the President of Syria announced that the year long series of indirect peace talks led by Turkish mediators and between Syria and Israel will need to be postponed due to Israel’s internal political upheaval. The only way peace talks will sustain is dependent on who Israel’s Prime Minister elect [...]
