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Entries for December 2010
December 31, 2010 02:02
U.S. President Barack Obama has used a controversial strategy to appoint the first U.S. ambassador to Syria in nearly six years.
The White House announced Wednesday it had appointed career diplomat Robert Ford to the post.
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December 30, 2010 21:36
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December 29, 2010 22:50
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President Obama's First Two Years in the Middle East
By David Schenker
al-Hayat
December 27, 2010 |
President Obama assumed office in 2009 with an ambitious Middle East policy agenda. Atop the list of his campaign pledges, then Senator Obama vowed to pursue Israeli-Palestinian peace and re-engage in diplomacy with Tehran and Damascus. Given these grand plans, perhaps not surprisingly the first two years of the Obama Administration Middle East policy have been distinguished more by frustration than accomplishment. This is particularly true in the Levant -- in Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, and Israel -- the focus of much of the Administration's regional efforts.
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December 12, 2010 08:54
December 12, 2010 ⋅ 12:25 am ⋅US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has met with UN special envoy for Lebanon Terje Roed-Larsen to discuss the current situation in Lebanon, the State Department said Saturday.
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December 08, 2010 16:34
Florida Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), the incoming chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, isn't wasting any time in pressing for deep cuts to the State Department and U.S. foreign operations around the world.
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December 02, 2010 13:26
Middle East Report N°100 2 Dec 2010
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
It is hard to see who can emerge victorious in Lebanon’s latest crisis. The Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) dealing with the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafic Hariri soon will issue its first indictments.
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