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Intifada left the implementation of the "roadmap" stalled. In 2007, during the last few months of his presidency, George W. Bush invited Israel and the Palestinian Authority, among a backdrop of other Arab nations, to a peace conference in Maryland. Hamas, which had just taken control of the Gaza EFTA_R1_00441004 EFTA
n churches and intimidation of its critics. After the military's actions in the past few weeks, there is no going back. For the US government, for Mohamed ElBaradei, for the Saudis and Emeratis, for everyone who was on board with the interim government, the chance for a settlement between the post-coup regime
Palestinian confederation that would encompass both banks of the Jordan River. Majali even discussed his plan with political figures in Israel and the Palestinian Authority, with the tacit approval of King Abdullah. The plan stirred a heated debate in Jordan, leading Abdullah to believe that it was still too sensitive;
d, for reasons that are now public knowledge. To understand why, one only needs read the memoirs of Jack Straw, then British foreign secretary, or Mohamed ElBaradei, then secretary general of the International Atomic Energy Agency — or indeed the memoirs of Rouhani, who was then the chief negotiator of the Ira
ashington can lawfully continue to provide aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) if it includes Hamas as an equal partner. Af
undermine the result by trying to force through reforms before the elections. Their great champion, former U.N. nuclear watchdog (and Nobel laureate) Mohamed ElBaradei, argues that the constitution can't wait for people's elected representatives. The youth leaders agree and are threatening to return to Tahrir Square
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030185 →writing an unrepresentative Constitution," argued Mohamed ElBaradei, the former international atomic energy czar who
excluded from the government. By going further than the Israeli government — by seeming to justify an Israeli refusal even to begin negotiations with the Palestinian Authority until Hamas accepts those conditions or the Palestinian Authority rejects Hamas — the President has made it harder for the Netanyahu government to re
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030273 →Entities connected to both the Palestinian Authority and Mohamed ElBaradei

Barack Obama
PERSON
Jerusalem
LOCATION
Benjamin Netanyahu
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George W. Bush
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United States
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Lebanon
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Bashar al-Assad
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Bill Clinton
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West Bank
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Tehran
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Cairo
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Mahmoud Abbas
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Fatah
ORGANIZATIONthe West Bank
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Hillary Clinton
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Middle East
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Hosni Mubarak
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Marc Rich
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Yemen
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Damascus
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