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News Source: Asian Wall Street Journal
| 5 months ago
President Barack Obama returned home from abroad Sunday to find that his own oratory laying out an ever-more-ambitious agenda, both in foreign and domestic policy, is ratcheting up demands for concrete achievements. "Expectations are rising with...
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News Source: Canadian Free Press
| 5 months ago
Honigman Sunday, June 7, 2009 President Barack Obama’s long-awaited speech to the Muslim World in Cairo had some important, positive elements in it...Among other things, he spelled out the need for Arabs and other Muslims to get a handle on...
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News Source: San Bernadino County Sun
| 5 months ago
The coverage from Thursday's speech in Cairo from our media has its usual array of amusing elements. The Yahoo headline stated Obama was offering an unclenched fist to the Muslim world, a poor attempt at sensationalization. The McClatchy News boasted,...
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News Source: Trinidad Express
| 5 months ago
For every one of his professed policies which appall them ("preventive detention", eg) come two of which they cannot help but approve (the decision to close Guantanamo, eg, or his measures designed to spur trade unionisation). It's wearying, this "'...
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News Source: The independent
| 5 months ago
Barack Obama yesterday told both sides in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict that while the US will do all it can to help bring about peace – he ordered his peace envoy, the former Senator George Mitchell, back to the region next week – the...
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News Source: Xinhuanet.com
| 5 months ago
President Theodore Roosevelt delivered a lecture to the Egyptian students at Cairo University, in which he deplored the assassination of Egypt's premier Boutros, and forcibly reminded his audience that a community can not exercise the right of self-...
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News Source: The Electric News Paper
| 5 months ago
Backing Palestine Unlike most US presidents, Mr Obama made strong comments about Israel's occupation of Palestine. He said Israel must curtail its expansion of West bank settlements and recognise Palestinian aspirations for statehood. He also...
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News Source: Lexington Herald-Leader
| 5 months ago
More than anything else, some influential figures said Friday that they could not look past Obama's affirmation of the "unbreakable" bond between the U.S. and Israel, and they took that as a sign that nothing had changed. "We have witnessed that...
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News Source: Palestine Chronicle
| 5 months ago
The upheaval in America’s relations with the Muslim world after 9/11, as well as its content and language, make the eagerly-awaited address by President Obama in Cairo on June 4 an event of great significance. Speculation in recent weeks had...
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News Source: Financial Times
| 5 months ago
Barack Obama on Friday called on Arab states to show willingness to set up diplomatic and commercial ties with Israel in return for “tough commitments” from the Jewish state as he reinforced his determination to launch a fresh drive to broker...