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April 17, 2008

Middle East News: World Press Roundup

In the Christian Science Monitor, Joshua Mitnick discusses the removal of barriers in the West Bank (1). An opinion by Matthew Levitt in the Weekly Standard examines the message that former US President Jimmy Carter sent by meeting with Hamas (2). The relationship between the Israel-Palestine conflict and other regional conflicts is the subject of analysis in an opinion by Ghassan Khatib in BitterLemons(5). In the Daily Star, Rami Khouri argues that there are growing disparities in the Arab world (8). Shmuel Rosner looks at a new Jewish American alternative to AIPAC in Haaretz (11).


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Abbas Says No Peace With Israel Unless All Prisoners Released

Media Outlet: 
The Associated Press
Date: 
April 17, 2008
Source Link(s): 
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/975992.html [6]

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said in televised speech Thursday that a release of all Palestinian prisoners must be part of any peace deal with Israel.

Abbas delivered the televised address Thursday to mark Palestinian Prisoners' Day. About 8,500 Palestinian prisoners are held in Israeli jails and detention centers. Israeli and Palestinian negotiators are trying to reach a peace deal by the end of the year.



Heavy Fighting In Gaza Casts Doubt On Egyptian-led Talks

Media Outlet: 
The Associated Press
Date: 
April 17, 2008
Source Link(s): 
http://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=12447 [7]

Gaza's worst day of violence in a month, in which at least 20 Palestinians and three Israeli soldiers died, appeared to jeopardize Egypt's efforts to mediate a Middle East cease-fire.

Wednesday's death toll was the highest since a broad Israeli military offensive in early March that killed more than 120 Gazans, including dozens of civilians. Since then, Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers appeared to be honoring an informal truce, though punctuated with Palestinian rocket attacks, some Israeli airstrikes and minor border skirmishes.



Gaza Op Possible After Bush Visit

Article Author(s): 
Herb Keinon
Media Outlet: 
The Jerusalem Post
Date: 
April 17, 2008
Source Link(s): 
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1208356968002&pagename=JPost%2FJPArti... [8]

There is a heightened sense in the security establishment that a broad-scale ground incursion inside the Gaza Strip is necessary this summer to deal a severe blow to Hamas's infrastructure, sources in Jerusalem said Wednesday, following the death of three soldiers in a Gaza ambush.



The Gulf Is Not Persian

Media Outlet: 
Haaretz
Article Type: 
Editorial
Date: 
April 17, 2008
Source Link(s): 
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=975713&contrassID=2&subCon... [9]

The foreign minister of the Sultanate of Oman, Yusef Bin Alawai Bin Abdulla, agreed to hold a short photo-op at the beginning of his meeting with Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni on Monday at the Sheraton Doha hotel. In the last eight years, since the Al-Aqsa intifada led to severing of relations between the two countries, Israeli and Omani foreign ministers have met mostly in secret, in European capitals or on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.



Brothers At Bay

Media Outlet: 
The Economist
Article Type: 
Analysis
Date: 
April 17, 2008
Source Link(s): 
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11057111&fsrc=RSS [10]

Egypt's government battles with the Muslim Brotherhood



Jimmy Carter: A Fool On A Fool's Errand

Article Author(s): 
Michael Young
Media Outlet: 
The Daily Star
Article Type: 
Opinion
Date: 
April 17, 2008
Source Link(s): 
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=5&article_id=9107... [11]

Say what you will about Jimmy Carter, he has a way of transforming moments of plodding gravitas into uproarious comedy. Remember that moment during the 1980 Democratic convention when Carter stood up, and in a phrase paying tribute to Hubert Humphrey, instead praised "Hubert Horatio Hornblower," confusing the late vice president with the character from the C.S. Forester novels?



Mr. Zahar And Mr. Carter

Media Outlet: 
The Washington Post
Article Type: 
Editorial
Date: 
April 17, 2008
Source Link(s): 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/16/AR2008041603097.... [12]

ON THE OPPOSITE page today we publish an article by the "foreign minister" of Hamas, Mahmoud al-Zahar, that drips with hatred for Israel, and with praise for former president Jimmy Carter. We believe Mr. Zahar's words are worth publishing because they provide some clarity about the group he helps to lead, a group that Mr. Carter contends is worthy of being included in the Middle East peace process. Mr. Carter himself is holding what appears to be a series of meetings with Hamas leaders during a tour of the Middle East.



No Peace Without Hamas

Article Author(s): 
Mahmoud Al- Zahar
Media Outlet: 
The Washington Post
Article Type: 
Opinion
Date: 
April 17, 2008
Source Link(s): 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/16/AR2008041602899.... [13]

President Jimmy Carter's sensible plan to visit the Hamas leadership this week brings honesty and pragmatism to the Middle East while underscoring the fact that American policy has reached its dead end. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice acts as if a few alterations here and there would make the hideous straitjacket of apartheid fit better.



A Blast Still Reverberating

Article Author(s): 
David Ignatius
Media Outlet: 
The Washington Post
Article Type: 
Opinion
Date: 
April 17, 2008
Source Link(s): 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/16/AR2008041602900.... [14]

It is April 18, 1983, and I am visiting the American Embassy in Beirut as a reporter for the Wall Street Journal.

It is a coolish morning, a day to wear the winter-weight suit one last time. By the time I reach the embassy, a bright sun is beginning to cut the haze. Approaching the front entrance on the Corniche, grand and all but unguarded, I look across the shimmering Bay of Beirut to the slopes of Mount Lebanon, where there is still a trace of snow at the peak.

The moist, sweet air of Lebanon is on my face like a phantom kiss.



What's Sauce For The Goose...

Article Author(s): 
George S. Hishmeh
Media Outlet: 
Arabic Media Internet Network
Article Type: 
Opinion
Date: 
April 17, 2008
Source Link(s): 
http://www.amin.org/look/amin/en.tpl?IdPublication=7&NrIssue=1&NrSection=3&NrArt... [15]

When told that the leaders of Germany, Britain and, most likely, France would boycott the opening Olympic ceremonies in Peking because of China's recent crackdown in Tibet, the US President George W. Bush's National Security Adviser, Stephen Hadley, described their decision as "a cop out" and offered a surprising response that seemed to run counter to the US stance in other regions, particularly the Middle East where some governments and groups remain untouchable.



Abbas Turns To Russia For Help

Article Author(s): 
Sana Abdallah
Media Outlet: 
The Middle East Times
Date: 
April 18, 2008
Source Link(s): 
http://www.metimes.com/International/2008/04/17/abbas_turns_to_russia_for_help/1... [16]

As fighting continues to rage in the Gaza Strip and progress bogs down in the U.S.-sponsored peace negotiations with Israel, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has turned to Russia for help.

Abbas was in Moscow Thursday calling to convene a conference in the Russian capital "as soon as possible" because the Palestinian-Israeli peace negotiations that were re-launched at Annapolis in November were not moving forward.



Diplomacy, Carter-style

Media Outlet: 
The Jewish Daily Forward
Article Type: 
Editorial
Date: 
April 21, 2008
Source Link(s): 
http://www.forward.com/articles/13179/ [17]

Amateur historians like to say that Jimmy Carter is much better as an ex-president than he was as president. That gets his presidency about right; he’s usually ranked near the bottom, slightly ahead of Millard Fillmore but trailing Herbert Hoover.

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