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March 11, 2009
"Grand Bargaining and Basketball Trades"
Op-Ed, Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Senior Fellow, The Dubai Initiative
'Grand bargain' peacemaking in the greater Middle East region requires the sort of complex analysis leading to agreements that satisfy the needs of all sides, and Americans are very good at it -- in three-way professional sports trades.
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March 9, 2009
"The Promise of 'Normal Ties'"
Op-Ed, Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Senior Fellow, The Dubai Initiative
Now that the United States has initiated diplomatic engagement with Syria and Iran, Damascus and Tehran will feel new pressure to say what they want -- rather than mainly to criticize the US and say what they reject.
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March 4, 2009
"Adults Acting Like Children"
Op-Ed, Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Senior Fellow, The Dubai Initiative
"Throwing large amounts of money into Palestinian reconstruction while reinforcing a political context that only perpetuates Israel's regular destruction of Palestinian institutions is wasteful folly at best, and complicity in criminality at worst."
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March 2, 2009
"Even America's Foes Want to Talk"
Op-Ed, Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Senior Fellow, The Dubai Initiative
"The Middle East comprises the world’s oldest commercial bazaars and trade routes -- where foreign caravans and armies alike pass through on a regular basis, and the locals have learned that survival is usually enhanced by making deals with the foreigners for the mutual benefit of both sides."
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February 25, 2009
"Building Relations with Iran and Syria"
Op-Ed, Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Senior Fellow, The Dubai Initiative
"Reconnecting on the basis of a common commitment to respect, reciprocity and rights might offer a more effective path forward, if more mature officials in the United States, Iran and Syria risk attempting such an approach."
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February 23, 2009
"A Dangerous Gap in the Middle East"
Op-Ed, Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Senior Fellow, The Dubai Initiative
"There is great danger in the gap between Israeli extremism and the more accommodating realism and pragmatism of everyone else in the Middle East -- including an America that seems slowly to be coming to its senses again."
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February 18, 2009
"Respect and Hope in American-Arab/Islamic Relations"
Op-Ed, Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Senior Fellow, The Dubai Initiative
"This is a rare moment of change and opportunity, as the mainstreams of American and Arab-Islamic societies seem today to focus on how to work together for real change based on policy adjustments by both sides."
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February 14, 2009
"A Symbiotic Death Dance"
Op-Ed, Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Senior Fellow, The Dubai Initiative
"The Iranian revolution, Arab Islamism and Israeli Likudnik super-nationalism feed off each other in a grizzly symbiotic death dance. But if Washington and Tehran come to diplomatic agreement, it would choreograph a new dance for the entire region."
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February 11, 2009
"Here Comes the Four-State Solution"
Op-Ed, Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Senior Fellow, The Dubai Initiative
"A land once defined by a pluralistic indigenous population of Christians, Jews and Moslems is now on the verge of becoming divided into four parts, two of which enthusiastically embrace the ethos of the warrior-nationalist."
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February 9, 2009
"Jerry Doesn't Miss Condi"
Op-Ed, Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Senior Fellow, The Dubai Initiative
The world is a better place today because Condoleezza Rice has retired from American public service, and my water turtle Jerry has found a new home with friends in Beirut.
