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H1 Ha’aretz  Editorial Turn over every stone The official announcement published yesterday in three capitals - Jerusalem, Damascus and Ankara - about the opening of indirect peace talks between Syria and Israel, under the aegis of Turkey, is a source of great hope but also suspicion.

 

Rosner Will he or won't he attack? It's doubtful Bush knows A fateful strategic issue - certainly for the State of Israel - became a plaything this week for the American election circus. The Iranian threat is now the Iranian debate: to threaten or talk, to attack or wait

 

Harel Too many question marks

 

Washington Post Israel, Syria Disclose Indirect Peace Talks Turkish Officials Mediating; Golan at Issue

 

ANALYSIS U.S. on the Outside in Peace Efforts By Robin Wright

 

Lebanon Accord Offers a Respite

Essential Issues Still Unresolved

 

Iraqi Troops Welcomed In Sadr City U.S. Absence Seems To Make Difference

 

The Old Titans All Collapsed. Is the U.S. Next?End of Empire? This could be the beginning of the end for the world's last superpower

 

Financial Times Europe is a geopolitical dwarf Most European geopolitical gurus believe that the EU can survive well as a free-rider on US power, counting on it to keep the world safe while Europe tends to its internal gardens. The paucity of European strategic thinking is stunning, writes Kishore Mahbubani

 

Obama inches closer to victory

But the Democratic party is weakened and divided. If the party is to succeed in November, the wavering super-delegates had better make up their minds

 

WORLD NEWS: Food prices forecast to stay high for 10 years

  

Guardian Obama backs off Iran talks pledge Campaign notes proper preparations must before committing to diplomatic meeting with Iran president

 

Persian pipelines  Roger Howard: A century after the west struck oil in the Middle East, today's great secure energy hope is Iran

 

Peace delayed  Leader: There are many reasons why the peace talks between Israel and Syria could fail

 

Newsweek How Israel-Syria Talks Could Affect Iran Ties

 

 “DPRK-Syria Bilateral Contacts, 2005-2007,” Open Source Center, May 2, 2008.

 

Syrian Media – The Challenge and the Need to Act

 

Syrian Media – The Challenge and the Need to Act | Part II

 

Slate Travels in the Former Soviet Union Azerbaijan turns toward Islam. Joshua Kucera

 

RFE/RLA Potentially Lucrative Thaw In Relations Following talks in Baku, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan could be closer to agreeing on how to divide up the Caspian energy resources located between them -- and on a pipeline to send them west.

 

Bush's Islamist Enemies By: Mohamad Bazzi | The Nation
President George W. Bush was rightly condemned last week when he implied that Democrats want to "negotiate with terrorists" because they are driven by "the false comfort of appeasement," while Republicans are committed to fighting terrorism. But in his speech before Israel's Knesset, Bush made another dangerous statement that got far less attention: He lumped together Al Qaeda with the Islamist groups Hamas and Hezbollah

 

Syria and Israel: tactical advantage, MESH

 

 Debka Analysis: Doha accord swings Lebanon’s balance of power to Shiite Hizballah

 

Why did Nasrallah disobey Tehran and Damascus in Doha?

 

Lebanese Crisis Ends: Hizballah Victory or Temporary Truce?, The Washington Institute

 

A Medal for Brass By: Nina Shea | The Weekly Standard
Already dogged by a reputation for promoting religious extremism abroad and repression at home, the government of Saudi Arabia now faces growing resentment at the soaring price of oil. As is their custom, Saudi rulers have responded with a public relations campaign. It's a campaign built on deception.

 

Defense Intelligence Strategy 2008 (PDF: 2.6 MB) Source: U.S. Department of Defense (via Federation of American Scientists)

 

Obama to Ahmadinejad: Atomic Assist By: Amir Taheri | New York Post Critics of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's provocative foreign policy were preparing to launch a series of attacks on him in the Islamic Majlis, Iran's ersatz parliament. But then Ahmadinejad got an unexpected boost from Barack Obama

 

Debating Liberal Internationalism By: Matthew Yglesias et al | The American Prospect Matt Yglesias explains how Democrats have been hurt themselves with incoherent foreign policy thinking and how they can improve in the future, and David Rieff, Justin Logan, David Frum, Derek Chollet and Anne-Marie Slaughter respond

 

Middle East Oil: Defying the Experts By: Roger Howard | International Herald Tribune
The arguments of advocates of "peak oil," who assert that global oil production has now climaxed and will start to decline, appear increasingly plausible. But a look at the history of such expert opinion provides reason for skepticism

 

Breaking Impasse, European Nations Agree to Start Broad Talks With Russians

 

The Sole Superpower in Decline: The Rise of a Multipolar World by Shri Dilip Hiro.

 

The NCTC gets America's counterterrorism priorities right
   
By David Ignatius

 

WSJ Lebanon Deal Boosts Hezbollah

Rival Lebanese factions reached an agreement to resolve their 18-month political crisis. The breakthrough deal sets presidential elections for Sunday and gives Hezbollah and its allies veto power over all government decisions.

 

Wall Street Journal How to Think About the World's Problems
By Bjorn Lomborg
Global warming shouldn't be at the top of anyone's priority list.

 

Obama's Troubling Instincts
By Karl Rove The senator should be specific about what he intends to offer our enemies.

 

IEA to Slash Oil-Supply Estimate Energy watchdog IEA is preparing a sharp downward revision of its global oil-supply forecast, a shift that reflects deepening pessimism over whether oil companies can keep abreast of booming demand

 

NY Sun Submarines for Syria? – Editorial

 

Is Bin Laden Moving on from Iraq? - Paul Reynolds (BBC News)

 

Hizbollah and Lebanon: the curse of a state , Robert G Rabil

 

Kosovo to Kashmir: the self-determination dilemma, Sumantra Bose

 

China v Russia: communist mask v democratic hat, Christoph Neidhart

 

Daily Star Editorial Lebanon has given itself a chance to end a miserable, murderous cycle

 

Something radically new after Doha By Michael Young

 

Christian Science Monitor Qatari deal defuses Lebanese crisis The agreement gives Hezbollah and the opposition allies of the Shiite militants enough control in the government to have veto power over

 

Israel confirms Golan Heights talks with Syria The two countries, after an eight-year hiatus, are talking about an Israeli withdrawal in exchange for peace.

 

Guantánamo ex-detainee tells Congress of abuse Murat Kurnaz, who testified in a landmark hearing Tuesday, says he spent days chained to the ceiling of an airplane hanger. He was determined innocent in 2002, but held until 2006

 

Georgia sees itself as front line in fending off Russia The Columbia-educated president's party is expected to retain power in Wednesday's parliamentary elections. In an interview, he describes why he sees the country as the front line against Russian aggression.

 

Obama starts to attract Clinton voters Despite divisive primaries, he has a record lead over Clinton among Democratic voters, a new poll finds.

 

IHT  BUSH AND 'APPEASEMENT' It's also called diplomacy By CHARLES A. KUPCHAN AND RAY TAKEYH History makes amply clear that longstanding rivalries usually require engagement.

 

Top ETA leader is seized in France

The Spanish and French authorities said that they had arrested one of the highest-ranking members of ETA, Francisco Javier López Peña, and three others in Bordeau

 

H2   

Israel, Syria hold indirect peace talks through Turkish moderators

 

Ha'aretz Turkey: Goal is direct meeting next month
 

Jerusalem Post Is Turkey's government starting a Muslim Reformation... By DANIEL PIPES

 

Is Iran holding Bayık as a bargaining chip against Turkey?

 

AP Türkiye raporu
Rapor, 'AKP kararı Venedik kriterlerine uygun olmalı' diyor

Avrupa'den herkese mesaj var
Avrupa Parlamentosu, hükümete 'Türban sorununu geniş mutabakatla çözün'; AKP'yi kapatma davasını görüşen Anayasa Mahkemesi'ne 'Venedik Komisyonu'nun ilkelerine uygun karar bekliyoruz' mesajı verdi

 

Neçirvan Barzani�nin Pentagon muamması

 

 

EU seeks radical overhaul of judiciary

 

Regional Public Opinion Will Defeat Turkish Efforts on Golan - Iran Radio

 

Turkey loosens purse strings as politics intensify

 

Kürtçüler uluslararası zemin arayışında
HASAN CELAL GÜZEL

 

EDM TURKEY EYES DEEPER ROLE IN SOUTHERN IRAQ

 

Sami Kohen Türkiye’nin barıştırma rolü...

 

ERDAL ŞAFAK Türkiye sonunda başardı

İBRAHİM KARAGÜL

 

Hüsnü Mahalli
Erdoğan’ın büyük başarısı

 

TAMER KORKMAZ Hudson'ların “Zeyno”

 

Der Spiegel Turkish-German Professionals: Young, Qualified and Unwanted

 

Melih Aşık F - 35 sıkıntısı

 

Barack Obama and Turkish foreign policy by EMRE USLU & öNDER AYTAÇ*

 

With friends like these, AKP needs what? Ahu ÖZYURT

 

Guardian Avoiding the G-word

The EU has come up with a new term to describe the slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman forces in 1915

 

İç Basında Türk Dış Politikası  Dış Basında Türkiye - BBC Turkish 0700 VOA TSİ 06:30 Turkish Press Review Google News Turkey TurcoPundit      

 

 

Google News Fırat News Agency KurdishMedia Kurdish Kurdish Aspect Dış Basında Irak  BBC Monitoring Inter-national

 

Is Iran holding Bayık as a bargaining chip against Turkey?

 

Cevdet Aşkın Ankara-Erbil trafiği hızlanıyor, PKK'ya askeri baskı artıyor

 

M Ali Birand Biz çözemezsek, kucağımızda bir arabulucu buluveririz

 

[Kürt siyasetinde yeni arayışlar] AK Parti'ye karşı 'çatı partisi' tartışmaları (2)

 

Daha radikal bir bildiri geldi

 

Kurdish activists call for international mediation of Kurdish issue

 

Barzani: 'PKK'ya karşı önlemler sürecek'

 

Görüşmeler başladı, Türkiye Ortadoğu barışına ev sahipliği yapıyor

 

Gates'ten Kürt Liderlere Övgü

 

Yeğen Barzani Türk gazetecilere konuştu

 

Amerikan-Kürt dostluk grubu kuruldu

 

ABD Kongresi'nde Amerikan-Kürt dostluk grubu

 

Barzani: PKK'ya karşı önlemler sürecek

 

İran, Azerbaycan'ı sattı!

 

 Barzani devlet başkanı gibi karşılanmadı

 

Kürdler kendi içinde diyaloglarını güçlendirmezlerse, ötekilerle barışık olma şansı yoktur

 

A Recent History of Kirkuk: The Victim City Kurdish Aspect –

 

Rice meets Iraqi Kurdish PM, discusses PKK

 

Erdoğan prepares for a visit to Iraq

 

Israeli, Syrian envoys holding peace talks in İstanbul

 

Ortadoğu’nun gözü İstanbul’da

İsrail-Suriye barış görüşmesi Türkiye’de

 

Köylülerden ’çıkın’ davası

 

'Türkiye-Irak ticareti 5 milyar dolar olmalı'

 

Kato Dağı'nda pusu: 2 şehit, 1 yaralı

 

'Eski militan Dilaram' ailesiyle teslim oldu

 

'Meteler' Bestler'e indirildi

 

Ardan Zentürk İslam coğrafyası... ‘Büyük kaos...’

 

 

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