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motivated by anger or resentment. After speaking with him in early March, as the crisis in Ukraine was still in its early stages, German Chancellor Angela Merkel seemed to draw that conclusion, telling U.S. President Barack Obama that the Russian president was living in "another world." But Putin's actions a

ll in its early stages, German Chancellor Angela Merkel seemed to draw that conclusion, telling U.S. Pre

and futile excuses. It knows it isn't fooling anyone anymore. Barakat El-Farra is Palestine's ambassador to Egypt and permanent representative to the Arab League. Anicic 4 Foreign Affairs The Czar of Brinkmanship Cynthia A. Roberts May 5, 2014 -- It has been exceedingly difficult, over the past several m

rever kept on the margins of WEF events. Not anymore. The atmosphere surrounding this year's summit is perhaps the gloomiest yet. German Chancellor Angela Merkel will kick off proceedings with an address attempting to reckon with the eurozone's miserable year. A panel wringing its hands over the future of li

haps the gloomiest yet. German Chancellor Angela Merkel will kick off proceedings with an address attemp

Assad is feeling lonely, though not yet lonely enough. First the Turks, Americans and Europeans de-friended him. Now formerly fraternal leaders at the Arab League want him deposed. The Syrian strongman's forces have killed more than 5,400 people in 10 months and turned a peaceful protest movement into a virtu

aeb Erekat on statehood moves at U.N. Edmund Sanders Article 4. Spiegel ‘What's Wrong with the Palestinians Appealing to the UN?' An interview with Arab League Head Nabil Elaraby Ancle 5. | Wall Street Journal From 9/11 to the Arab Spring Fouad Ajami Article 8. | Guardian Israel should be wary of celebra

s autocratic rule. Tensions in Syria, meanwhile, have already claimed more civilian lives than the revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia combined, and yet the Arab League is holding back. Why are you going easy on the Syrian regime? Elaraby: Syria isn't Libya. Libya has always been largely isolated. What happened ther

ready. SPIEGEL: The German government has also announced that it will not support the Palestinians’ plan. Elaraby: I heard what (German Chancellor) Angela Merkel said. She cited the Germans' unique responsibility to the Jews. But the Germans also have a responsibility to the Palestinians. SPIEGEL: The radical

Elaraby: I heard what (German Chancellor) Angela Merkel said. She cited the Germans' unique responsibilit

the response: French support for Ben Ali was embarrassing; the US was praising Mubarak days before he departed. Muammar Gaddafi had no friends - and the Arab League was crucial in providing a figleaf for UN-sanctioned Nato intervention. Bashar al-Assad, by contrast, has yet to be condemned by the UN for a crackdo

n the other foot. To save a poorly designed and overextended monetary union, the political must ride to the rescue of the economic. That will require Angela Merkel's leadership. If we are talking about the European economy and currency, Germany is the indispensable power. Only the combination of Germany and the Eu

y the combination of Germany and the European Central Bank, working in unison, has a chance of calming the mighty markets. For more than a year now, Merkel has attempted to find the narrow — perhaps nonexistent — line where the minimum that can be done to save the embattled Eurozone periphery meets the m

loyed. And German leaders are wrong if they think their country will remain unscathed as its major trading partners and neighbors unravel. Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany has been talking a more pro- European line. But she is still insisting on growth-killing austerity as the price for European bailouts and

as the price for European bailouts and still blocking the European Central Bank from printing more euros and acting as a lender of last resort. Mrs. Merkel's advisers insist that she is doing what the German people want. That is not leadership. She needs to challenge her voters' simplistic stereotypes of

cut in electricity supplies. Erdogan turned the screw again this week, accusing Assad personally of "feeding on blood" after he failed to honour the Arab League peace plan. "No regime can survive by killing or jailing," he said. "No one can build a future over the blood of the oppressed." Turkey's motives are