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Annapolis is a college town in love with history. Now history is coming to Annapolis in the form of a Middle East peace conference, offering students a close encounter with world events.
President Bush stepped cautiously into the most direct Mideast peacemaking of his administration on Monday, meeting separately with the leaders of Israel and the Palestinian Authority to explore whether peace is possible.
Among the most contentious issues between Israelis and Palestinians:
Arab holdout Syria agreed Sunday to attend a Mideast peace conference called by President Bush to restart talks to resolve the six-decade conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, yet expectations for the summit remained low. The two sides came to Washington without agreeing on basic terms for their negotiations.
In his boldest foray into Mideast peacemaking, President Bush has invited the Israeli and Palestinian leaders, along with representatives from nearly 50 nations and international groups, to next week's conference in Annapolis, Md. Some questions and answers about the summit.
A list of key players at the Mideast peace conference in Annapolis, Md.:
Next week's Mideast peace conference is unlike any previous U.S. attempt to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict because the price of failure has risen dramatically: radical Islamists could gain the upper hand in Palestinian areas and in an increasingly polarized Middle East.
President Bush, who has avoided playing much of a role in the Middle East peace process, is now gambling that the time is right for progress in the troubled region. But the risks are high, and the odds for success seem long.
Federal authorities have advised local law enforcement agencies to be alert to possible terrorism threats because of the Middle East peace conference next week in Annapolis, Homeland Security and FBI officials said Friday.
The United States on Friday lauded the decision by key Arab states, including Saudi Arabia and Syria, to attend next week's U.S.-hosted Middle East peace conference at the ministerial level, saying it was a sign the talks would be productive.
Saudi Arabia and other Arab nations grudgingly agreed Friday to attend next week's U.S.-sponsored Mideast peace conference, despite failing to get any guarantee of Israeli concessions.
Egypt, Jordan and the Palestinians sought Thursday to persuade skeptical Arab nations to attend a U.S.-sponsored Mideast peace conference, insisting it could open the door to a Palestinian state in the next year. Saudi Arabia and Syria remain the most important holdouts.
Judaism and Islam have similar rules about the proper ways to slaughter meat and prepare food, but there are significant differences.
The only sign Chance Walgren has seen that a Middle East peace summit is coming to this small waterfront city is that Maryland state flags lining Main Street were replaced this week with American flags.
People planning a brisk autumn run or walk at the U.S. Naval Academy face a possible detour past shouting anti-Palestinian protesters next week amid heightened security for the Middle East peace conference.
The United States will try to close an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal before President Bush's term expires, giving the administration a little over a year to help the two sides craft a resolution to one of the world's longest and most intractable conflicts.
The United States is inviting 49 countries, groups of nations, financial institutions and individuals to a Middle East peace conference it will host next week.
The Bush administration said Tuesday it will inaugurate peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians next week, ending a seven-year lull, with a conference of leaders and diplomats the U.S. hopes will help shepherd a final Mideast settlement.
The United States plans to issue as early as Tuesday official invitations to a much-anticipated Middle East conference, to be held next week at Annapolis, Md., hoping for strong backing from a select group of Arab nations for the U.S. effort to relaunch Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
In a Nov. 18 story on the launching of MTV's Middle East network, The Associated Press misstated the title of Patrick Samaha. He is MTV Arabia's general manager, not the program director as MTV's local public relations firm had indicated.
MTV is hoping hip-hop and reality television tailored and sanitized for a more conservative Middle East will draw young Arabs away from dozens of locally produced music video channels that already dominate the market.
Years of negotiations have already revealed the only workable solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, sizable majorities on both sides want peace and the cost of failure is clear: a victory for Hamas and its patron, Iran.
While vacationing tycoons and bikini-clad Hollywood superstars blissfully sipped drinks on the Maldives' secluded white beaches, an Islamic revolution fueled by preachers trained in Pakistan and the Middle East was brewing.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Monday that all sides want to reach a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians before President Bush leaves office, and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice welcomed what could be the start of the first serious bargaining in seven years.
The submarine, dubbed Ghadir, is reportedly fitted with noise-reduction features and is capable of firing missiles and torpedoes simultaneously.
The state of Israel would be "finished" if prospects of a two-state solution collapsed, its Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has warned. Two opinion polls have shown widespread scepticism among the Israeli public about this week's Annapolis summit.
This Christmas, 100 million children under the age of 15 living in the Middle East will be given an unexpected gift: a Christian satellite TV channel in Arabic. SAT-7 KIDS will go live one minute after midnight on December 9.
With the one-day peace summit in Annapolis in the United States failing to produce any tangible results, save a general agreement to more marathon talks until the end of 2008, sure to try the patience of long-suffering Palestinians, the summit's other agenda to rally the "peacema …
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Wednesday predicted that "Israel will not last" as he lashed out at the US-hosted conference seeking to relaunch the Middle East peace process, state media reported.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 — In July 1969, as the world was spellbound by the Apollo 11 mission to the moon, President Richard M. Nixon and his close advisers were quietly fretting about a nuclear arms race in the Middle East.
At the beginning of the first intifada, in 1988, Israel expelled Mubarak Awad, a Palestinian-American child psychologist who advocated Gandhian tactics for resisting the occupation.
"I am a servant of all Iraqis, there is no difference between a Sunni, a Shia or a Kurd or a Christian," Al-Mulla quoted [GRAND AYATOLLAH ALI Al] Sistani [OF NAJAF] as saying during the meeting.
President Bush on Wednesday told CNN he would personally "facilitate" peace negotiations between the Palestinians and Israelis, saying the formation of a democratic Palestinian state was the best way to bring peace to the region.
President George Bush met with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday both separately and together to launch the peace negotiations inaugurated at Tuesday's Annapolis conference.
"If it were easy, it would have happened a long time ago," Bush told officials representing 44 nations. Still, he said, "The time is right, the cause is just, and with hard effort, I know they can succeed." He pledged "to do all I can to help you achieve this ambitious goal."
I wouldn't be standing here if I didn't believe that peace was possible, and they wouldn't be here either if they didn't think peace was possible, [ said Mr. Bush]" Unlike their three-way handshake on Tuesday, the leaders did not shake hands in the Rose Garden.
"Many of these girls have suffered rape and sexual harassment, including beating and physical assault," said Kulthum Al Ghanem, Professor of Social Sciences at Qatar University and author of the study.
About three or four months ago, when our Secretary of State was in the Middle East, I predicted that the peace process would be successful. I continue to hold this belief. The reasons are as follows.
In late October, Dubai, which has little oil but is part of the region's energy economy, bought part of Och-Ziff Capital Management, a hedge fund in New York.
President Bush and the leaders of Israel and the Palestinian Authority yesterday agreed to work toward finalizing a peace agreement by the end of 2008, at a summit attended by more than 40 nations at the U.S. Naval Academy.
"JERUSALEM, Nov. 28 (UPI) -- Deadly rocket and airstrike exchanges were reported in the Gaza Strip Wednesday between Palestinian militants and Israeli armed forces.
" Damascus - A member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) said Wednesday that Iran had invited 10 Palestinian factions based in Syria for a meeting to confirm their right to an armed struggle against Israel and opposition to the US- sponsored peace confere …
President Bush and Condoleezza Rice have been consistently culturally obtuse on the Middle East, even with a pricey operation designed to keep them in the loop.
To build a durable peace in the Middle East, it takes a shared agenda, a willingness by moderates to work together to support one another and help each other beat back the extremists.
Anxieties among Sunni Arab countries over Iran's growing influence in the region hover over the Annapolis peace talks.
Flush with petrodollars, oil-producing countries have embarked on a global shopping spree.
The power needs of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa could be met by an ambitious idea to network renewable energies across the region.
Combat Outpost Blackfoot used to be a Catholic seminary where monks and nuns studied ancient Christian books and held Mass in a tidy chapel.
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