BEIRUT (AP) -- Syrian tanks mounted with machine guns fired today on a city at the heart of the country's uprising, just one day after Damascus agreed to an Arab League plan calling on the government to pull its military out of cities, activists said. At least nine people were reported killed in the tank fire and other violence. The violence does not bode well for the success of the Arab League initiative to solve a crisis that has endured for nearly eight months already -- with no sign of stopping -- despite a government crackdown the U.N. estimates has left some 3,000 people dead. Syria agreed to the Arab League plan yesterday.
The World Trade Center attacks gave Bush the chance to sell this agenda to Americans as essential to the "war on terrorism." The text calls for an end to the boycott of the Palestinian Authority and a comprehensive settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict based on "U.N. Security Council Resolutions 242 of 1967 and 338 of 1973, the Camp David peace accords of 1978, the Clinton Parameters of 2000, the Arab League Initiative of 2002, and the Roadmap proposed in 2003 by the Quartet (U.N., U.S., EU and Russia).
Guess which is the only Arab government that does not accept the Arab League peace initiative on Palestine? For more than a year now, it has been the government in Palestine. Needless to say, Israel has yet to accept it either. Successive Fatah-led governments among the Palestinians have historically been in sync with the international and Arab consensus on the basis for peace with Israel, but following the election of a Hamas-majority parliament in January 2006, this was no longer the case. The decision in Mecca by the two main Palestinian factions to form a national unity government has yet to produce a clear formal agreement on the Arab League Initiative, which holds that all Arab states would normalize relations with Israel in exchange for complete withdrawal from the occupied terri...
In addition to our regular news and analysis, this magazine's "Neocon Corner" series profiles members of the rogues' gallery which so relentlessly has steered U.S. foreign policy in a direction favoring Israeli interests-with the disastrous results (for Americans, not to mention other non-Israelis) we see today. The latter's reply to the question with regard to how the Israeli public would vote if a referendum were held on ending the military occupation (of Palestine) was, The majority would vote in favor of it, but this could trigger fear of the right of Palestinian refugees to return. to the coverage in this issue (p. 45) of Peace Now co-founder Galia Golan, who finds "less acceptable" the Arab League Initiative's "calls for the creation of a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders an...
Listen all ye mediators and would-be peace partners, and be aware," was the [Benjamin Netanyahu] message. "We are planting here, we will stay here, we will build here. This place will be an inseparable part of Israel for eternity. "Full implementation" of the Arab League peace initiative he said candidly in a PBS television interview. That re-stated 2002 initiative calls for total Israeli withdrawal to the 1967 lines, the establishment of a Palestinian state, and "a just and agreed upon solution" to the Palestinian refugee problem in return for an end to the conflict and full normalization of relations between Israel and the Arab world. "Listen all ye mediators and would-be peace partners, and be aware, " was the Netanyahu message. "We are planting here, we will stay here, we will bui...
MANAMA, Bahrain, Oct. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Bahrain's Culture Minister, Shaikha Mai bint Mohammed Al Khalifa, has announced a broad raft of programmes and events that will be held throughout next year to celebrate the Bahraini capital, Manama, as Cultural Capital of the Arab World . It is the first time Manama has been selected for this honour since the initiative was launched by the Arab League in 1996, as part of UNESCO's cultural capitals programme.Speaking at a press conference at the National Museum to spell out plans for Manama as Cultural Capital of the Arab World, Shaikha Mai bint Mohammed Al Khalifa said, "This title emphasises Manama's pioneering role in the field of culture and knowledge in the region.
The Arab League is taking the initiative on dealing with the crisis in Syria. It remains to be seen if the White House is ready to fall in and "lead from behind. On Saturday, the Arab League voted overwhelmingly to suspend Syria until a way could be found peacefully to end the eight-month uprising against the regime of Bashar Assad. The vote comes in response to Damascus flouting a league-brokered plan that was supposed to have ended the violence. More bad news for Mr. Assad quickly followed. On Monday, Jordan's King Abdullah II called for Mr. Assad to step down and help usher in "a new phase of Syrian political life." Beijing broke with Damascus and came out in support of the Arab League's actions. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the future could not be built on "the ...
JERUSALEM -- King Abdullah II of Jordan will meet with the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, on Sunday in the West Bank in an attempt to push along Israeli-Palestinian talks about peace. It will be the king's first visit to the occupied territory, which Jordan ruled until 1967, in seven years. King Abdullah has been traveling the West and the region urging that Israel and the Palestinians make more rapid progress toward solving their long dispute with the help of the Arab League initiative. He has been arguing that the conflict only feeds extremism in the Muslim world and that time is running out before a serious, new round of violence.
... diplomacy and have revived the 2002 Arab League initiative, which offers normal relations with Isr...
For the Middle East, a region where peace initiatives rise and fall but hardly ever resurface, the current comeback of the Arab League's peace initiative is a big deal. After more than six years of disregard, both Israeli and Palestinian leaders are grasping the plan's potential to provide much-needed traction for a peace process that has been going nowhere for a very long time. The plan offers Israelis full peace with the entire Arab world in return for an Israeli withdrawal to the 1967 borders and a "just" solution for the Palestinian refugee problem, to be "agreed upon" by Israel.
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