February 10th, 2009

Obama Defers to Bush, for Now, on Gaza Crisis Media Mention of Ghaith al-Omari In The New York Times - December 28, 2008 - 1:00am WASHINGTON — When President-elect Barack Obama went to Israel in July — to the very town, in fact, whose repeated shelling culminated in this weekend’s new fighting in » Read more

As Obama Visits State Dept., Clinton Announces Two Special Envoys Media Mention of Ghaith al-Omari In The Washington Post - January 23, 2009 - 1:00am By Karen DeYoung and Glenn Kessler Washington Post Staff Writers Friday, January 23, 2009; A05 President Obama traveled to the State Department yesterday afternoon for a visit that was as rich in symbolism as in substance, underscoring his pledge to give top priority to diplomacy as he outlined an activist policy in the Middle East and warned that "difficult days lie ahead" in Afghanistan. » Read more

Middle East envoy George Mitchell no stranger to conflicts Media Mention of Ghaith al-Omari In The Los Angeles Times - January 24, 2009 - 1:00am Since leaving the Senate in 1995, Mitchell has taken on one seemingly intractable problem after another, including the Northern Ireland conflict, which he helped settle. By Paul Richter and Henry Chu January 24, 2009 » Read more