news.yahoo.com - 23 days ago
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AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton made a hastily arranged stop in the Egyptian capital Tuesday to consult with a longtime Arab ally amid indications of a shifting U.S. strategy for getting Israel and the Palestinians back to peace negotiations.
usatoday.com - 29 days ago
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usatoday.com —
The "impact of (American-funded) democracy and governance programs
was unnoticeable" in Egypt, said the report by the...
U.S. Agency for International Development's inspector general. USAID auditors based their conclusions on international indexes of ...
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U.S. impeded in democracy efforts for Egypt
blogs.abcnews.com - 23 days ago
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton addressed the Forum
of the Future today in Morocco and again sought...
to temper Arab anxiety over a perceived softening of the Obama administration’s insistence that Israel halt settlements before peace talks resume.
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Clinton again tries to calm Arab fears about US ...
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Hillary promises “an Israeli capital in East Jerusalem”
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... The incompetence of American diplomacy reached a new nadir yesterday in an incident vershadowed by the elections in the US. Hillary Clinton told Al-Jazeera in an interview that the US wants to see an Israeli capital in East Jerusalem. Apparently, the chief diplomat of the United States and the woman who ran on her experience in foreign affairs did not remember that East Jerusalem is primarily Palestinian: Egypt and other Arab nations reacted with strong concern to remarks Clinton made in Jerusalem on Saturday. She caused a stir when she said with Israeli Prime Minister ...
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