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… are divided over the fundamental question of the Palestinian nation's identity. Fatah sees itself as part of a secular Arab world that is on the defensive. Hamas envisions the Palestinian nation as an Islamic state forming in the context of a region-wide Islamist rising. Neither...

NYT An Assassination in Tunisia Editorial February 8, 2013 -- Tunisia is where the Arab Spring began just over two years ago. Until now it has set an encouraging example of progress toward democracy and pluralism. Free elections brought to power a coalition government pledged t...

…llowed ourselves to believe that our victory had been so comprehensive, and so quick, that any threat from the defeated Arab states was gone for good. We assumed that inevitably, inexorably, they would realize they needed to sue for peace, and that there was no particular urgency...

…oth actions, these Defen- dants move to dismiss the complaint or for a more definite statement. Based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, SBG is the successor to a construction company founded by Mohammed Binladin, the fa- ther of Osama bin Laden. Ashton Com- plaint 1543; Burnett Complaint...

… Federal Plaintiffs have not stated a claim under 18 U.S.C. § 1962(a). The Federal Plaintiffs’ RICO statements against Arab Bank and the SAAR Net- work assert claims under § 1962(c) and § 1962(d). See 08 MDL 1570 Docket ## 307, 309. Subsection (ce) states, in part: “It shall be...

… To launch the system, known as SpanCash, Bajwa partnered in 2007 with Emirates Bank, which is controlled by the United Arab Emirates' sovereign wealth fund. It seemed the ideal collaboration for the Pakistani immigrant, who earned millions operating another Irvine company that m...

…dies of obesity in rats and humans, where individuals develop skyrocketing desires for food, but fail to experience comparable pleasure from eating. By definition, those who become obese are prone to eat in excess. One reason they do is because eating, or even seeing images of fo...

…ast as they continued their colonization policies. The missed opportunity has definitely been Israel throwing away the Arab Peace Initiative, which offers normalization of relations of 57 countries with Israel in exchange for Israeli withdrawal to the 1967 border. They threw it...

…ing. Like Dennis, the President tried to probe my position on land swaps, and Palestinian sovereignty for at least some Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem. Finally, he asked if I would rule out those possibilities if they represented the difference between success or failure at a su...

… swap near Gaza, with a “mid-90- percent” share of the West Bank. On Jerusalem, the guiding principle would be “what is Arab will be Palestinian, and what is Jewish, Israeli.” On the Temple Mount, the Haram al-Sharif, each side would have control of its own holy sites. Finally, t...

…iumphant against the odds. It was the role he liked and played best. His next move was to take the show on the road: to Arab, European and world capitals, pleading that he had been the “victim” of summit chicanery in which President Clinton and I had presented him with a deal no...

… own labor. Yet Ben-Gurion insisted we and other kibbutzim provide work for the Yemenis and other new arrivals from the Arab states. We began hiring Yemeni workers when I was about ten, the age when we kids started working for an hour or so each day in the fields. We worked along...

… a Palestinian state. The second principle was that “Jerusalem will remain united.” It would not be cut into Jewish and Arab halves as had happened between 1948 and 1967. That, I knew, might prove tougher to carry through on. But even if I had to concede a degree of Palestinian c...

…d. He told me he had sent an even more far-reaching package to Arafat, expanding on my proposals. Now, all of the outer Arab neighborhoods in East Jerusalem would come under Palestinian sovereignty, in addition to the Muslim and Christian quarters in the Old City. And Arafat woul...

…y 7, 2011 -- If you look into the different “shop” windows across the Middle East, it is increasingly apparent that the Arab uprisings are bringing to a close the era of “Middle East Wholesale” and ushering in the era of “Middle East Retail.” Everyone is going to have to pay more...