Last week's launch of direct Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations after fifteen months of relentless groundwork marks the third attempt in a decade to resolve the outstanding core issues pertaining to a two-state solution.
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Palestinian refugees must be properly integrated into Lebanese society if the country is to put the scars of civil war behind it
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Five years ago, Lebanese thronged the streets of Beirut to protest Syrian control over their country in a movement that quickly ended decades of military domination.
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement is the principal criminal investigative arm of DHS -- its Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) arm is the only federal law enforcement entity with full statutory authority to pursue violations of U.S. export laws related to military items, controlled dual-use commodities, and sanctioned or embargoed countries.
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I was aware that Castro had become preoccupied with the threat of a military confrontation in the Middle East between Iran and the U.S. (and Israel, the country he calls its Middle East "gendarme").
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The UN security council can curb the influence of foreign interests, and strengthen Iraq's sovereignty from within
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Israel needs a border that will delineate its borders, normalize its international status, end the dissent over the settlements and solidify the national consensus.
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We can be certain that if a deal is ever reached between an Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority, there will be those on both sides who will try to destroy it
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Iran will not be shamed into abandoning stoning, or its nuclear ambitions
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Accurate Hezbollah rocket arsenal makes symbolic Jerusalem sites a potential target
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When these girl scouts come to your door, you don't want to find out what they are packing inside their cookie boxes.
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The threat of a nuclear-armed Iran has given Israel, most of the Arab countries and the United States a common interest in working together to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Syria: Construction workers lay bricks for an apartment building in Damascus in March 2007.
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Domestic workers in the Middle East have a horrible time
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Robert Danin , Council on Foreign Policy
, September 4, 2010
The first round of Mideast talks in Washington this week was serious and businesslike; both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas refrained from theatrics and took steps to demonstrate sensitivity to the others' needs.
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