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f Israel as a Jewish state, something they have long refused. Last week, the United States tried to build support for such a quid pro quo from the Quartet, a Middle East peacemaking group that also includes the European Union, the United Nations and Russia. Winning the Quartet's endorsement would have
Africa to the group. After the recent financial crisis, Goldman Sachs upped the ante and projected that the combined gross domestic product of the BRICS might exceed that of the G-7 countries by 2027, about 10 years earlier than they initially believed. Such simple extrapolations of current economi
uch appearances are misleading. When Dominique Strauss-Kahn suddenly resigned this May as director general of the International Monetary Fund, the BRICS were unable to agree on a candidate, and despite the rhetoric of change France will retain the position. Goldman Sachs coined the term BRIC in 2001
f Israel as a Jewish state, something they have long refused. Last week, the United States tried to build support for such a quid pro quo from the Quartet, a Middle East peacemaking group that also includes the European Union, the United Nations and Russia. Winning the Quartet's endorsement would have
Africa to the group. After the recent financial crisis, Goldman Sachs upped the ante and projected that the combined gross domestic product of the BRICS might exceed that of the G-7 countries by 2027, about 10 years earlier than they initially believed. Such simple extrapolations of current economi
uch appearances are misleading. When Dominique Strauss-Kahn suddenly resigned this May as director general of the International Monetary Fund, the BRICS were unable to agree on a candidate, and despite the rhetoric of change France will retain the position. Goldman Sachs coined the term BRIC in 2001
d to talk peace. The world would be confronted, he seemed to be saying, by a "Greater Israel with gas!" Some Palestinians called for the toothless Quartet to be dismantled altogether and replaced by enhanced UN involvement. Some Israelis conceded that their country had made strategic errors in expand
ce process to replace the failed bilateral talks. Indeed, perhaps the clearest message of the conference was the appeal for a greater role for the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, EFTA_R1_00484994 EFTA01991857 China and South Africa) in establishing a new multilateral mechanism for regional security
Entities connected to both Quartet and BRICS

Barack Obama
PERSON
Tehran
LOCATION
Bill Clinton
PERSON
Bashar al-Assad
PERSON
Benjamin Netanyahu
PERSON
Cairo
LOCATION
Lebanon
LOCATION
Marc Rich
PERSON
Mahmoud Abbas
PERSON
United States
LOCATION
Jerusalem
LOCATION
Damascus
LOCATION
Saddam Hussein
PERSON
Tunisia
LOCATION
Hillary Clinton
PERSON
Terje Rod-Larsen
PERSON
Fatah
ORGANIZATION
Middle East
LOCATION
West Bank
LOCATION
Samantha Power
PERSON