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Middle East: The diplomacy
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The Christian Science Monitor
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Washington -– Locked in seemingly endless violence, Israelis and Palestinians confront an even more deadly enemy: time. The longer the conflict continues, the greater the sense that it will not end in our lifetime.
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Middle East: The history
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The Christian Science Monitor
Athens – Rarely, if ever, since President Truman hastened to recognize the new state of Israel in 1948, have American prestige and leverage been lower in the Middle East.
The seeming weakness of US muscle perceived by its friends and allies in the area comes from years of disuse.
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Middle East: The hope
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The Christian Science Monitor
Tel Aviv – A little house is going up in the heart of the flowering Galilee, its mud packed and patted by the hands of Arab and Israeli teenagers working side by side.
The "House of Earth" at the Givat Haviva center is being fabricated entirely from local soil. "Land is the source of the conflict," says Mike Flax, an American who directs program development, "so earth also can be
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For Wolfowitz, a busy life being a lightning rod for Bush
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New York Times
Washington -— Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz got a call 10 days ago from Karl Rove, President Bush's chief political adviser, dispatching him to a big rally here in support of Israel. The White House was stung by criticism from conservative Republicans over its policies toward Israel.
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The new French left
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The Weekly Standard
Paris -- The Monday morning newspapers were already on the streets at midnight Sunday, and so was the French left. Both were describing National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen's runner-up finish in the first round of the presidential elections as "A shock!" and "A political earthquake!" Le Pen, who bested 14 other candidates, now gets to face incumbent president Jacques Chirac head-to-head in the general election on May 5. Most everyone in France had expected a barren reprise of the 1995 elections, with Chirac facing Socialist prime minister Lionel Jospin. Instead, Le Pen got 17.5 percent to Jospin's 16.3, trailing only
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