Palestine Liberation Organization officials said Monday they are willing to move forward with the two-state solution as proposed by U.S. President George W. Bush at the Annapolis summit, regardless of the situation in Gaza.
BAGHDAD -- With flags flying and dirt shoveled into a brass-colored pipe, Iraqi government officials Monday symbolically broke ground on a multi-million dollar project that will create thousands of jobs and "change the face of Baghdad."
EDITORIAL
What a difference a president makes. One day the president of the United States is among the most despised leaders in the Arab world, his effigy is burned and hanged by crowds chanting slogans against him, the next day a new president is hailed as Saladin, one of the greatest Arab heroes.
OPINION
This mornings AP headline reads "Pakistan U-Turns on Sending Spy Chief to India." Three links down on the Google "news page," its collection of links is the Hollywood Today headline: "Mumbai Massacre Now Linked to Pakistan: War to Follow?" making it clear that those who generate current world problems are not merely the lawless and conscience-less villains at the extremes, but rather that our problems stem with near equal abundance from dysfunction, irresponsibility and dangerous blindness in the heart of the "mainstream."
BEIRUT -- One of the great weaknesses in the modern Middle East that explains much of the chronic violence and political thuggery of the past half century is the thin state of the rule of law in comparison with the rule of the gun.
