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ia Thomas L. Friedman Article 3. The Washington Institute Avoiding Assad's Forced Solution to the Syria Crisis Andrew J. Tabler Article 4. Now Lebanon Does the US seek an Arab-Iranian "equilibrium?" Hussein Ibish Article 5. The Christian Science Monitor As Egypt squeezes Gaza, Hamas looks incre

ts politics well. With the Supreme Leader's blessing, Rouhani then transferred the nuclear portfolio from the hard-line Supreme National Council to the Foreign Ministry, which reports to him. He changed the government's tone radically. Though still an enemy, Israel was no longer "the Zionist entity" but the state o

inst protesters on Nakba Day Israel furious over critical UN report that IDF used live fire against unarmed Lebanese protesters, cuts contact with Lebanon coordinator. By Barak Ravid A new report of United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is highly critical of Israel for its handling of inciden

Italy and Spain at the UN, as they are the three countries contributing most of the troops to UNIFIL. To send an even stronger message to Williams, the Foreign Ministry decided to cancel his periodic visit to Israel, which was due in a number of weeks. Williams asked to hear Israel's position on the events of Nakba

t groups of settlers [set the fires] in order to complete their takeover of these areas." (PA Foreign Ministry) 7. Allah is punishing Israel (Fatah-Lebanon) 8. Acknowledgment that Israel expressed thanks and credit to Palestinians for helping publicly and widely (Official PA daily) 9. Criticism of Isr

d some of the fires - "Extremist groups of settlers [set the fires] in order to complete their takeover of these areas." (PA Foreign Ministry) "It [the Foreign Ministry] noted that the fires in the West Bank broke out in places that from the outset were marked as targets by the occupation and the settlement enterpri

l, for their editing contribution. Miklos Pinther, former chief UN cartographer, who in 2000 oversaw the delineation of the Blue Line between Israel, Lebanon and Syria, compiled and produced the maps in this volume. Finally, my executive assistant, Jilla Moazami, gave invaluable administrative support. Wit

between him and local Palestinian leader Faisal Husseini, at the American Colony Hotel in Jerusalem. These talks, which were facilitated by Fafo and the Foreign Ministry of Norway, reached a dead end later that year. The Norwegians realized that without involving the exiled and outlawed Palestinian leadership in Tunis