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Arab Foreign Ministers to Hold Emergency Meeting on Syria Next Saturday

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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">CAIRO (NNN-QNA): The Arab League Council will hold an emergency at the level of foreign ministers on Saturday to discuss developments in Syria in light of the continuing violence and will discuss the Syrian government's stand regarding obligations it agreed to fulfill within the framework of an Arab Plan of Action to resolve the crisis in Syria, the Arab League Secretariat General said in a statement.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">According to the statement the Arab ministerial committee on <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Syria</st1:country-region></st1:place> will hold a meeting next Friday evening to discuss the situation prior to the meeting the Arab League Council at the ministerial level scheduled on Saturday. (QNA)-NNN-QNA</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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Arab Foreign Ministers to Hold Emergency Meeting on Syria Next Saturday

CAIRO (NNN-QNA): The Arab League Council will hold an emergency at the level of foreign ministers on Saturday to discuss developments in S...

ARABS TO CONTINUE MOBILIZING INT'L SUPPORT FOR INDEPENDENT PALESTINIAN STATE

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</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">  </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">CAIRO (NNN-QNA) -- Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabor Al Thani has stressed the Arabs' adherence to the option of just and comprehensive peace in the region, which he said will only be achieved by Israel's commitment to all the agreements that it has signed with the Arab side. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Sheikh Hamad, who is chairman of the meeting of the Arab League Council at the ministerial level in its 136th regular session here Tuesday, was speaking at a joint press conference with the Arab League Secretary-General Dr Nabil Al-Arabi at the end of the meeting. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Israel's plundering of Palestinian rights in this way cannot be accepted, and that Arabs will continue efforts to mobilize international support for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, during the coming period," he said. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">He noted that the meeting of the Arab peace initiative in this regard Monday decided that there is nothing to prevent them from going to the United Nations seeking a recognition of the state of Palestine. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Premier and Foreign Minister called on the international community to support the Palestinian and Arab steps in this matter. He pointed out that the Arab approach is always peaceful even in going to the United Nations, where the move will be determined either at the Security Council or the General Assembly during the next two days based on the decision taken by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Sheikh Hamad stressed the importance that the international community support the Palestinian steps as they are peaceful and in accordance with the resolutions of international legitimacy, pointing out that the Israeli side did not commit to any of the agreements signed since 1995, and was continuing the policy of settlement, and "so the public opinion in the Arab and Islamic world has become sensitive and frustrated and wondering how long this situation would continue." </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">He stressed that the issue needed to be examined and required a clear Arab decision, expressing the hope that the issue would be resolved through dialogue and talks, according to a timetable, to realise the Palestinian right in accordance with resolutions of the international legitimacy. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Responding to a question on the Arab attitude towards the pressure exerted on the Palestinian Authority and the threat of the US Congress to cut off financial aid to the Authority, Sheikh Hamad said it is important that Arab states shoulder their responsibilities and support the Palestinian cause, pointing to Qatar's commitment to support the Palestinian cause. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">He stressed at the same time on the need to have a Palestinian national unity government and work to lift the siege on the Gaza Strip, pointing to the siege being imposed on more than a million and a half Palestinians there. He added that the international community must bear the responsibilities towards them. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Replying to a question on US promises to establish a Palestinian state, the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister expressed his hope to see the independent Palestinian state, adding that the US' role is a central and important one. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"We still hope that the US politicians would examine well their interests in the region and take the appropriate decision in the interest of truth and stability in the region," he added. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Sheikh Hamad pointed out that going to the United Nations was not a substitute for the peace process, adding that since the start of this process and the endless promises of Israel nothing was achieved, pointing out that the Palestinians asked for Arab support to draw the international community and Israel's attention to this problem and the need for it to be solved. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"We hope to see Palestinian and Israeli sides sit together on the same negotiating table and reach the desired peace," he said, adding that the situation has changed in Israel. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The move is not a substitute for the peace process but to break the stalemate, he said, stressing that the Arabs and Palestinians will do everything possible to realise their legitimate goals. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">On the situation in Syria, Sheikh Hamad said that the Arab countries were in agreement that unity and stability of Syria is important, as well as rejecting foreign interference, but "there is an Arab pain from the bloodshed." </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">He said: "We cannot accept the ongoing killing and violence in Syria ... Violence should stop to allow dialogue between the government and opposition as quickly as possible." </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The foreign ministers discussed the "serious" situation in Syria, in addition to steps to be followed in the UN when the Palestinians seek a statehood recognition, he said. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Sheikh Hamad said the conflict should be resolved within Syria or between Damascus and the Arab League "and only in this framework." </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"We have responsibilities as Arabs and humans, and if the killing and oppression continue in Syria then the situation will be re-examined," he added.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">For his part, the Arab League Secretary-General said that Arab states fully support a planned Palestinian bid before the United Nations for recognition as an independent state. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"We are waiting for the Palestinian leadership's decision whether they will address the General Assembly or the Security Council," Al-Arabi said.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/CAIRE-TRAVEL-TOURISM-VINTAGE-POSTER/dp/B0036Q3VTC?ie=UTF8&tag=glob036-20&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="LE CAIRE CAIRO EGYPT ARAB TRAVEL TOURISM VINTAGE POSTER REPRO" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=B0036Q3VTC&tag=glob036-20" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=glob036-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B0036Q3VTC" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" />The Arab League meeting precedes the forthcoming session at the United Nations, where Abbas is expected to request UN recognition for an independent state within the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Al-Arabi said that, though the General Assembly cannot announce the Palestinian state as a member without the council's recommendation, it can declare Palestine as a non-permanent member. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"This means that talks with Israel will be between two countries discussing main issues, rather than negotiating the existence of the Palestinian state," Al-Arabi said.-- NNN-QNA</span></div></div>

ARABS TO CONTINUE MOBILIZING INT'L SUPPORT FOR INDEPENDENT PALESTINIAN STATE

CAIRO (NNN-QNA) -- Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabor Al Thani has stressed the Arabs' ad...

Occupation of Arab territories stifles economic growth – UN report

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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc2Vym7dhSp0gDsQDtaPJ0ED8OkgXfovUrH1Cl43pVHmo-Vyz0aX5SLfuTUK5RS78CLhcoxFb0YK2w8PJsZrT6aKyCi1n7LsrDg2x8FDKSwJAjSuOV5rM5VRPr964kQWMyIm-4KHYBKTA/s1600/arabterri.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc2Vym7dhSp0gDsQDtaPJ0ED8OkgXfovUrH1Cl43pVHmo-Vyz0aX5SLfuTUK5RS78CLhcoxFb0YK2w8PJsZrT6aKyCi1n7LsrDg2x8FDKSwJAjSuOV5rM5VRPr964kQWMyIm-4KHYBKTA/s1600/arabterri.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Employment and economic conditions in the occupied Arab territories continue to be stifled by restrictions imposed under Israel’s occupation and the policy of separation, according to a report by the United Nations International Labour Organisation (<b>ILO</b>).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The annual <b>report</b> of ILO on the situation of workers of the occupied Arab territories released last week calls for replacing the current security logic “with a development logic, based on a long-term vision of the economic, employment and human security interests of all the women and men in the region.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The report states that despite some improvements in the movement of people, there has not been an improvement in the lot of workers over the past year, adding that there can be no change “unless the restrictions imposed by the Israeli occupation, and the occupation itself, are removed.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The report underlines that all parties “have to come to a decision sooner or later on the next steps. The Palestinian economy has reached limits which cannot be surpassed without agreement and action on the two major constraints it faces: occupation and separation. Palestinian State-building should not be stifled and allowed to run out into frustration and discontent.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This year’s report refers to the many facets of separation resulting from the closure of the Gaza Strip, the effects of the Separation Barrier, the separation of East Jerusalem from the West Bank, the multiple separation measures enforced in the West Bank, and the separation of the Syrian citizens of the occupied Syrian Golan from their homeland.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It recalls that settlements are the primary cause of the confiscation of Arab land, restrictions on access and movement, territorial fragmentation, and depletion of natural resources.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In his preface to the report, ILO Director-General Juan Somavia poses the question: “Can the divisions be overcome, physical and mental obstacles dismantled, and the human potential of the region’s millions of inhabitants released for the purposes of development? Or will this potential remain frustrated, with hope denied by conflict and a real development reduced to administering continuous humanitarian first aid?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The findings of the report are based on a mission sent earlier this year to the occupied Arab territories, Israel and Syria to assess the situation of workers of the occupied Arab territories, including the West Bank, Gaza and the Golan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">While the report notes further improvement in the economic situation in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), it shows that growth is not evenly distributed because of the continued closure of Gaza, and consists in large part of catching up from a much-degraded base.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The unemployment rate in the oPt eased only slightly to 23.7 per cent in 2010 and higher economic growth has failed to translate into a significantly improved labour market. Youth unemployment has remained at a staggering 39 per cent, according to the report.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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Occupation of Arab territories stifles economic growth – UN report

Employment and economic conditions in the occupied Arab territories continue to be stifled by restrictions imposed under Israel’s occupatio...

Palestinians key to success of Arab uprisings, says UK historian

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 3px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 3px;"><div style="text-align: center;">  <div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">London -- <b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">The deputy director of the London-based Muslim Institute, Yaqub Zaki, has revised his scepticism about the success of the Arab uprising following coordinated protests across Israeli-occupied territories in Lebanon, Syria, the West Bank and Jerusalem.</span></i></b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv3LC9noAf-4J_TWLz6KBGj5oNevsEzeNyNcpfT0Lk4gCISxbpKrkHBdpLSpavYbyTkdvzppgYuX9PH_gH2GzwKBKZK35CTeptF11CqJpzICGr5DMqtZXeaDrPJwhucFRAxku2gEguCMoe/s1600/palestine.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv3LC9noAf-4J_TWLz6KBGj5oNevsEzeNyNcpfT0Lk4gCISxbpKrkHBdpLSpavYbyTkdvzppgYuX9PH_gH2GzwKBKZK35CTeptF11CqJpzICGr5DMqtZXeaDrPJwhucFRAxku2gEguCMoe/s1600/palestine.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“The Palestinians are the most radicalised of all the Arabs, so when they join the phenomenon the Western media have dubbed the Arab Spring there are grounds for hope,” says Zaki, who is a historian and former lecturer in Islamic Theology at the University of Lancaster. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Even if the movement were not truly radical to begin with, the Palestinians might succeed in radicalising it,” he said in an interview with IRNA, after previously cautioning people in the Arab world about proclaiming success in the series of uprisings. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Israeli troops opened fire, killing up to 17 protesters taking part in mass demonstrations on the occupied borders of Syria, Lebanon, West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem to mark the 63rd anniversary of Nakba Day on Sunday. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“This phenomenon of mass border crossing - symbolic as showing that the Palestinians do not acknowledge the borders which sell-outs like Mahmoud Abbas are prepared to settle for - is something that Abdul Qadir al-Murabit has been calling for for years,” Zaki said. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“The way to overcome Israel is not start a war but for all Muslims to move simultaneously across all of Israeli frontiers, and although many would be shot down (as has happened), they could not kill all the Muslims in the world but would be overwhelmed,” he said. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“It seems that this, on a diminished scale, is what is happening. And the people who achieved that are sending a message not just to the Zionists but to their present leaders.” <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The academic expressed surprise how protesters managed to get through, the fence on the Lebanese side, having seen it, with an Israeli Defence Force outpost only a few feet behind. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“This mass movement is important, for each time the Arab regimes announce their terms for peace they make a territorial retreat. As for the losses it is only what one would expect: Israel is above the law and knows it can get off with murder.” he said. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In an earlier interview with IRNA, Zaki warned against “premature jubilation” of the domino effect sweeping North Africa and the Middle East, suggesting there may be a “hidden hand manipulating events from behind the scenes, to produce a series of pseudo-democracies to replace the dictatorships that are no longer tenable.” <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Of recent development, he said the situation was now looking up in Egypt with the opening of the border with Gaza, negating the effects of the Israel's blockade. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The problem for the west was that it was in a “quandary” as they cannot decry pro-democracy movements in the Middle East whilst at the same time applauding them in China and in Burma, Zaki added. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“This is seen in the mixed signals coming out of Washington; Obama simply does not know how to react, and his advisers are equally confused. This movement has wrong-footed them,” he said. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“We should never make the mistake of attributing infallibility to the leaders of the new world order or fall into the trap of thinking them invincible. They make many mistakes, and they are making one now.” <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">An issue was that the Arabs are a “mercurial people who pass easily from over-confidence to abject despair; they lack the staying-power, perhaps even the attention span, of a European people,” Zaki said. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">His message was “not fall into the trap of over-estimating your enemy, for that is precisely what he want you to do. Their continuance in power depends on their maintaining the illusion of infallibility.” <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">“The leaders of the new world order are not infallible, they make many blunders, which Muslims must learn how to recognise so they know how to react when they do make one. They are making a big one at the moment, and Muslims must know how to utilize this opportunity,” Zaki said. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">(IRNA)</span></span> </span></div></span></div></span></div>

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Obama's seal of approval on anti-Syrian sanctions

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj92q97_f38twhwknZfw3ETRUxQS1mGHe6JpO-p2vfopO5ydzTnlWkm6S2zgtMNsJRlH6p9zKrNg9lif2kWUJoef-pXIeWeIK6picddIVGCb3eFwbEuwYhnE8HIQ5oWxCVszYmBz8wSUg3b/s1600/barackobamaseal.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj92q97_f38twhwknZfw3ETRUxQS1mGHe6JpO-p2vfopO5ydzTnlWkm6S2zgtMNsJRlH6p9zKrNg9lif2kWUJoef-pXIeWeIK6picddIVGCb3eFwbEuwYhnE8HIQ5oWxCVszYmBz8wSUg3b/s1600/barackobamaseal.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Kokila;">New York–<span style="color: red;"> US President Barack Obama has issued an executive order for imposing sanctions on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and six other top leaders of the country.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The US Department of the Treasury in its Wednesday statement said the order which was signed by President Obama will put Syrian government under more intensive pressures. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">According to the order, any properties in the US belonging to the Syrian leaders mentioned in the order will be confiscated and none of the Americans are entitled to operate exchanges with them. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Analysts believe that the very existence of a country like Syria which is against the US and the Zionist regime policies is presenting huge challenge to the hegemonic grip of America over the world as well as the authority of Israel in the region. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Elliott Abrams, former chief Middle East adviser on the National Security Council in his essay released by Washington Post has explicitly expressed his support for 'change' in Syrian system. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">John McCain, the Republican nominee for president in the 2008 US elections who is famous in the Congress for his blind support for the Zionist regime has criticized Obama over his insufficient efforts against the Syrian government. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Now is time to support protesters against al-Assad, McCain has said. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">All this change in the political behavior of the US in front of Syria is coming midst the growing sense danger on the part of Washington leaders who see the probability of a toppled Zionist regime even more iminant thanks to the recent uprisings in the region. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Relations between Syria and the Untied States started to deteriorate in March 2003 following the occupation of Iraq by the US forces, an act which Syria was against. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Since 2004, the United States has been imposing various economic sanctions on Syria.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 5.0pt;">-IRNA</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></div>

Obama's seal of approval on anti-Syrian sanctions

New York– US President Barack Obama has issued an executive order for imposing sanctions on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and six other ...

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; line-height: 33px;"><b><a href="http://enewsgalore.blogspot.com/search/label/World">World</a></b></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMS1ykUGJPHId3Hp1osBd_OZmCmx8ihsHmRSRPXEJQsPQiG90EMx1jtY0ttdAixZkLyRLgsp19eV7xC04-Jzd_EaJ9sjc0xqEhvDAqJQN0Sd-ygJmJA11n-i64ZPwNEyhgplQ71bz6BtSR/s1600/ap_libya_protests_Tobruk_25feb11_eng_480.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMS1ykUGJPHId3Hp1osBd_OZmCmx8ihsHmRSRPXEJQsPQiG90EMx1jtY0ttdAixZkLyRLgsp19eV7xC04-Jzd_EaJ9sjc0xqEhvDAqJQN0Sd-ygJmJA11n-i64ZPwNEyhgplQ71bz6BtSR/s320/ap_libya_protests_Tobruk_25feb11_eng_480.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Libyan anti-regime demonstrators at a burned police station in Tobruk, February 25, 2011</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="line-height: 1.4; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Popular protests engulfed large swathes of the Arab world after Friday prayers, as anti-government movements appear to gain momentum.  Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators turned out across the Arab world after Friday prayers to express anger at their leaders. </span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><br /></span></div><strong style="line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><strong style="line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Libya </strong></span></div></strong><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 1.4;"><div style="text-align: justify;">In Benghazi, Libya, the center of an insurgent movement against veteran leader Moammar Gadhafi, protesters shouted that they want to overthrow his regime.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 1.4;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Benghazi and most of eastern Libya is now under control of the insurgents, in addition to growing sections of territory in western Libya, outside the capital Tripoli. Al-Arabiya TV reports that the coastal towns of Zawiya and Misrata, scenes of a ferocious battles between pro and anti-Gadhafi supporters Thursday, are now in the hands of the opposition.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 1.4;"><div style="text-align: justify;">In Tripoli, which remains under government control for the most part, the Friday prayer leader told worshipers that they should not challenge their rulers or create strife. Eyewitnesses reported that Gadhafi supporters fired on protesters in several parts of Tripoli, causing casualties.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 1.4;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Former Libyan Foreign Minister Abdel Rahman Shalgham, an Gadhafi confidante, told Al-Arabiya TV that "talk of an outside military intervention in Libya makes it imperative to find a solution in the best interest of the nation."  It is time," he said, "for courageous decisions to be made." Mr. Gadhafi told Libyan TV Thursday that he has no "real power," but "just moral authority," like the Queen of England.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 1.4;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Despite the chaos and violence, a ferry boat succeeded in evacuating U.S. nationals from Tripoli to the nearby island of Malta. The deteriorating security situation has prompted thousands of Libyans and foreign nationals to flee the country in recent days. Bad weather and high seas have hampered several seaborne attempts to evacuate foreigners.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><strong style="line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><strong style="line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Egypt </strong></span></div></strong><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 1.4;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Several hundred thousand demonstrators also turned out in Cairo’s Tahrir Square Friday, calling for the resignation of the government of Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq. A similar demonstration took place last Friday, after worshipers held prayer services in the square.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span class="margin-bottom-small display-block container field-note" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.4; text-align: justify;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Iraq </strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><br /></span></div></span></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Major protests also took place in numerous Iraqi towns and cities, including Baghdad, the southern port city of Basra and the Sunni Muslim towns of Samara, Tikrit, Baquba and Ramadi. In the northern town of Mosul and its outskirts dozens of casualties were reported after protesters clashed with security forces.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The most dramatic clashes took place in Baghdad where thousands of protesters gathered at the city’s Tahrir Square for what was being called a "day of rage." Al-Jazeera TV reported that hundreds of protesters broke through police lines on two Baghdad bridges to join the rally.</div></span><div style="line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBWB_squL5_hdIViTAo8lr8o1MQSWz9O9KU78cujeoA96078tTn70AcMpsPlyoJ-bmqL0SnsRLG08t9xNGCrgC2EvVAOXVVXLloiKKzGPVMRnifytEzFOIuuVAi9T_lZnhqa0XCD9-lVQb/s1600/ap_iraq_protests_friday_25feb11_eng_230.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBWB_squL5_hdIViTAo8lr8o1MQSWz9O9KU78cujeoA96078tTn70AcMpsPlyoJ-bmqL0SnsRLG08t9xNGCrgC2EvVAOXVVXLloiKKzGPVMRnifytEzFOIuuVAi9T_lZnhqa0XCD9-lVQb/s1600/ap_iraq_protests_friday_25feb11_eng_230.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Major protests also took place in numerous Iraqi towns and cities, including Baghdad, the southern port city of Basra and the Sunni Muslim towns of Samara, Tikrit, Baquba and Ramadi.</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="line-height: 1.4; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br /></strong></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br /></strong></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br /></strong></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Yemen</strong> </span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><br /></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 1.4;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Tens of thousands of demonstrators also turned out in almost every province of Yemen Friday to demand the resignation of President Ali Abdullah Saleh. The daily protests began on February 16 and have grown in strength, despite pledges of political reform by Mr. Saleh.  President Saleh has governed Yemen since 1978 and has promised not to seek re-election when his term ends in 2013.</div></span></span><br /></div>

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