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Arab heads of state meet on Sept. 27, 1970, at the Nile Hilton in Cairo to put an end to the civil war in Jordan between Palestinians and the government of King Hussein. From left to right: Libyan leader Muammar Khadafy, PLO chief Yasser Arafat, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, and King Hussein of Jordan. Palestinian and Israeli officials steeled themselves on November 4, 2004 for the possible death of the veteran Palestinian leader as Arafat lay critically ill in a Paris hospital. While Palestinian prime minister Ahmed Qorei tried to play down in public the seriousness of Arafat's condition, French doctors and Palestinian officials privately acknowledged that the man who has led the nationalist struggle for some 40 years was critically ill. (UPI photo/HO )
Michael B. Oren's account of the Arab-Israeli internecine war in "Six Days of War" should be required reading for every member of the Bush administration. An un
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 (UPI) -- The fog of jingoism appears to have displaced the fog of war. The media and television comedians, on both sides of the Atlantic, have been hurling scurrilous br
Today is Wednesday, Jan. 15, the 15th day of 2003 with 350 to follow.
WASHINGTON, July 9 (UPI) -- Trying to explain the origins of the half-century-old Arab-Israeli conflict is, by any stretch of the imagination, an intricately complex and sensitive task, es
WASHINGTON, April 8 (UPI) -- Last week, the U.S. Treasury Department dismissed a proposal made by the International Monetary Fund's Anne Krueger that countries should be able to be declared bankrupt. This bickering emphasized yet again the current helplessness of the West in the fac
Today is Tuesday, Jan. 15, the 15th day of 2002 with 350 to follow.
CAIRO, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- It is difficult to describe the anticipation and apprehension I felt at the prospect of visiting Egypt for the first time after 37 years. Egypt: a place I often
NEW YORK, Nov. 29 (UPI) -- Winning the war for the hearts and minds of the peoples of the Muslim world may prove considerably harder than winning any military campaign.
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