UPI International Intelligence articles from June 2007

UPI International Intelligence archives from June 2007

Analysis: Korea talks collapse over aid.
June 1, 2007... Byline: LEE JONG-HEON SEOUL, June 1 (UPI) -- Inter-Korean reconciliation talks broke down Friday as Seoul refused to send food aid unless Pyongyang carries through with its nuclear disarmament obligations. The two sides even failed to...

Analysis: Japan may go solo for whale meat.
June 1, 2007... Byline: SHIHOKO GOTO TOKYO, June 1 (UPI) -- If you can't change the system, then set up an alternative team that will play by different rules. That may be Japan's answer to the latest round of talks about whaling worldwide. On...

Analysis: Israel intelligence debate.
June 1, 2007... Byline: JOSHUA BRILLIANT JERUSALEM, June 1 (UPI) -- Two former intelligence chiefs, Israel's Gideon Ezra and the Palestinians' Jibril Rajoub, sometimes fought one another, sometimes cooperated, and Wednesday tried a dialogue. Ezra,...

Analysis: Of dinosaurs and fresh faces.
June 1, 2007... Byline: STEFAN NICOLA BERLIN, June 1 (UPI) -- Next week's Group of Eight summit in Germany is a meeting of new talent and outgoing dinosaurs, with German Chancellor Angela Merkel having established herself as a leadership figure in that...

Analysis: Kosovo independence divides U.N.
June 1, 2007... Byline: WILLIAM M. REILLY UNITED NATIONS, June 1 (UPI) -- Sponsors of a draft U.N. Security Council resolution granting supervised independence to Serbia's southern province of Kosovo have softened wording in the measure due to strong...

Analysis: Hopes high for Lebanon tribunal.
June 1, 2007... Byline: DALAL SAOUD BEIRUT, Lebanon, June 1 (UPI) -- An international criminal tribunal set up to prosecute the killers of Lebanon's former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri is a step forward for the Middle East, which has been long plagued by...

Walker's World: G8 or G4?
June 4, 2007... Byline: MARTIN WALKER WASHINGTON, June 4 (UPI) -- This week's Group of Eight summit in Germany may be the last, or almost the last of its kind. When this process began in the mid-1970s, the five founding members of the United States,...

Review of the Arab press.
June 4, 2007... AMMAN, Jordan, June 4 (UPI) -- London-based al-Quds al-Arabi commented Monday that moving the clashes between Islamic extremist militants and the Lebanese army to the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon is a serious...

Analysis: Rostock burns after G8 riots.
June 4, 2007... Byline: STEFAN NICOLA BERLIN, June 4 (UPI) -- Officials are concerned about security at this week's Group of Eight summit in Germany after some 1,000 people were injured in the biggest riots the country has seen in decades. Burning...

Commentary: Guns of August?
June 4, 2007... Byline: ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE WASHINGTON, June 4 (UPI) -- World peace is now at risk because of "new crazies who say, 'Let's go and bomb Iran.'" So spoke Mohammed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency. He didn't mention...

Commentary: Israel's past, Mideast reality.
June 4, 2007... Byline: ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE WASHINGTON, June 4 (UPI) -- The Six-Day War in 1967, 40 years ago this week, was a spectacular victory for Israel -- and a humiliating defeat for three Arab countries. It changed the geopolitical map of the...

Analysis: 40 years after the Six-Day War.
June 4, 2007... Byline: CLAUDE SALHANI WASHINGTON, June 4 (UPI) -- June 5 marks 40 years since the start of the Six-Day War, when in 1967 Israel launched pre-emptive strikes against Egypt, Syria and Jordan. It was Israel's first major confrontation...

Analysis: Hopes for Pakistan democracy.
June 4, 2007... Byline: ROSALIE WESTENSKOW WASHINGTON, June 4 (UPI) -- The clash between Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and judicial leaders has caused a political crisis in the country but may precipitate greater democratization. Musharraf...

Analysis: Lebanon facing clashes, tribunal.
June 4, 2007... Byline: WILLIAM M. REILLY UNITED NATIONS, June 4 (UPI) -- Lebanon continues to grapple with fighting on two fronts -- at Palestinian refugee camps between Islamic militants and the Lebanese Army as well as the political standoff between...

Review of the Arab press.
June 5, 2007... AMMAN, Jordan, June 5 (UPI) -- Arab newspapers commented Tuesday on the 40th anniversary of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, which has come to be known as "naksa," or "setback" -- when Israel captured the West Bank, East Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip and...

Outside View: Back to 1967 is not possible.
June 5, 2007... Byline: MARIANNA BELENKAYA MOSCOW, June 5 (UPI) -- June 5 marks 40 years since the start of the 1967 Arab-Israeli Six-Day War. The day is a good excuse to recall the war that is still exerting an impact on the situation in the Middle...

Analysis: G8-fortress Heiligendamm.
June 5, 2007... Byline: STEFAN NICOLA HEILIGENDAMM, Germany, June 5 (UPI) -- The 19th-century Grand Hotel in this German resort is usually a hot spot for wealthy Baltic Sea tourists, who can enjoy five-star-plus service and a stretch of sandy beaches just...

Policy Watch: In praise of pessimism.
June 5, 2007... Byline: MARK N. KATZ WASHINGTON, June 5 (UPI) -- Many of these columns have been critical of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Others have been critical of American President George W. Bush. Those who object to my criticism of Putin see me...

Analysis: Coping with Gaza's rockets.
June 5, 2007... Byline: JOSHUA BRILLIANT TEL AVIV, Israel, June 5 (UPI) -- Palestinian militants have launched 294 rockets and mortar bombs into Israel since May 15, presenting the government with a problem: How to stop them? Two-thirds of those...

Analysis: The threat of ice, snow melt.
June 5, 2007... Byline: WILLIAM M. REILLY UNITED NATIONS, June 5 (UPI) -- Melting snow covers, ice and glaciers in Asia alone could affect about 40 percent of the world's population, said the U.N. Environment Program. Despite the melting, availability...

Commentary: Putin's state of mind.
June 6, 2007... Byline: ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE WASHINGTON, June 6 (UPI) -- The reasons behind Vladimir Putin's increasingly hostile attitude toward the Bush administration are becoming clearer. To understand them in their proper context, imagine the United...

Politics & Policies: To Russia with love.
June 6, 2007... Byline: CLAUDE SALHANI WASHINGTON, June 6 (UPI) -- If U.S. President George W. Bush follows through with his controversial plan to set up a defensive missile shield in two former Warsaw Pact countries, years from now historians will be...

Review of the Arab press.
June 6, 2007... AMMAN, Jordan, June 6 (UPI) -- London-based al-Quds al-Arabi commented Wednesday that U.S. President George W. Bush is the last Western leader who should be lecturing Russian President Vladimir Putin about democracy. The independent...

Realpolitik: 40 years of deadly delusions.
June 6, 2007... Byline: ALON BEN-MEIR NEW YORK, June 6 (UPI) -- Perhaps more than anything else, the 40th anniversary of the 1967 Six Day War has shown a spotlight on the present crisis of leadership in the Middle East. Israel is now being led by a...

Analysis: Cold War at G8?
June 6, 2007... Byline: STEFAN NICOLA HEILIGENDAMM, Germany, June 6 (UPI) -- Wednesday's Group of Eight summit meeting is heading for a clash between Russia and the West over the country's backsliding democracy, a U.S. missile defense system planned in...

Walker's World: Walling off the Net.
June 6, 2007... Byline: MARTIN WALKER WASHINGTON, June 6 (UPI) -- One issue that this week's G8 summit will not be addressing is the emergence of a new ideological divide. It is not as sharp as the grim rivalry of the Cold War, but it carries profoundly...

Analysis: Peace rally in a Palestine town.
June 6, 2007... Byline: JOSHUA BRILLIANT ANATA, West Bank, June 6 (UPI) -- Several Palestinian groups marked the 40th anniversary of the June 6, 1967, Six Day War in an unusual way: They invited Israelis to a peace rally in this town adjacent to...

Review of the Arab press.
June 7, 2007... AMMAN, Jordan, June 7 (UPI) -- London-based ash-Sharq al-Awsat Thursday quoted Iyad Allawi, Iraq's first prime minister after U.S. forces toppled Saddam Hussein's regime in 2003, as saying the United States entered an "endless tunnel" and made...

Analysis: Merkel's G8 strategy pays off.
June 7, 2007... Byline: STEFAN NICOLA HEILIGENDAMM, Germany, June 7 (UPI) -- The first two days of the Group of Eight summit in Heiligendamm have shown that German Chancellor Angela Merkel's approach is one of conciliation. She knows that fueling...

Analysis: S. Korea's Roh faces challenge.
June 7, 2007... Byline: LEE JONG-HEON SEOUL, June 7 (UPI) -- President Roh Moo-hyun, who barely survived South Korea's first-ever presidential impeachment bid years ago, is now facing another political challenge for having allegedly violated the country's...

Analysis: Seoul to share IT expertise.
June 7, 2007... Byline: LEE JONG-HEON SEOUL, June 7 (UPI) -- South Korea, one of the world's most wired societies, has offered to share its technology expertise with Asian and Middle East countries to bridge the region's widening digital divide, in a move...

Analysis: U.S.-Russian rockets project?
June 7, 2007... Byline: STEFAN NICOLA HEILIGENDAMM, Germany, June 7 (UPI) -- In what looked like a turn for the better for U.S.-Russian relations, Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Group of Eight summit in Heiligendamm extended an offer to U.S....

Analysis: U.N., Darfur command and control.
June 7, 2007... Byline: WILLIAM M. REILLY UNITED NATIONS, June 7 (UPI) -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has sent a revised report to the Security Council spelling out the compromise composition of the hybrid United Nations-African Union peacekeeping...

Analysis: Mideast peace plan faces hurdles.
June 7, 2007... Byline: JOSHUA BRILLIANT JERUSALEM, June 7 (UPI) -- Almost two months after the Arab League renewed its peace initiative, Israel finally responded. In two-paragraph letters to her Egyptian and Jordanian counterparts, Foreign Minister...

Analysis: Lebanon's political tsunami.
June 8, 2007... Byline: CLAUDE SALHANI WASHINGTON, June 8 (UPI) -- The Lebanese have long believed in conspiracy theories, more often than not blaming others for all the ills that have struck this paradisiacal parcel of land along the shores of the...

Analysis: Israel ready for deal with Syria.
June 8, 2007... Byline: JOSHUA BRILLIANT TEL AVIV, Israel, June 8 (UPI) -- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert seems to have taken up Syrian President Bashar Assad's calls for peace. According to the Yediot Aharonot newspaper, Olmert sent Assad secret...

Analysis: U.N. reducing malnutrition.
June 8, 2007... Byline: WILLIAM M. REILLY UNITED NATIONS, June 8 (UPI) -- U.N. agencies say they have an innovative approach to tackling severe acute malnutrition, a problem facing about 20 million children under the age of 5 years around the globe...

Analysis: Kosovo's uncertain outlook.
June 11, 2007... Byline: MEGAN HARRIS WASHINGTON, June 8 (UPI) -- The U.N. resolution to grant Kosovo independence was rejected last week under threat of a Russian veto. U.S. diplomats are raising the issue with Russia this week, but a resolution granting...

Review of the Arab press.
June 11, 2007... AMMAN, Jordan, June 11 (UPI) -- Jordan's ad-Dustour said in a commentary Monday that U.S. President George W. Bush and other Group of Eight leaders should be the last to speak about freedoms, human rights and injustice in the world. These...

Analysis: Irony of Bush's European tour.
June 11, 2007... Byline: CLAUDE SALHANI WASHINGTON, June 11 (UPI) -- Talk about the irony of ironies, on his European tour U.S. President George W. Bush was met with protests in Christian countries and greeted as a liberator in Europe's largest Muslim...

Policy Watch: Moscow's Mideast hopes.
June 11, 2007... Byline: MARK N. KATZ WASHINGTON, June 11 (UPI) -- Under Vladimir Putin, Russia has pursued three main goals in the Middle East: first, to prevent the United States from becoming the predominant power there; second, to prevent the Middle...

Walker's World: China's soft power.
June 11, 2007... Byline: MARTIN WALKER WASHINGTON, June 11 (UPI) -- It may simply be that President George W. Bush makes a perfect villain. But the way in which so much of the world's media, so many of its politicians of all nations and so many protesters...

Analysis: Afghanistan's opium dilemma.
June 11, 2007... Byline: MARK MAATHUIS WASHINGTON, June 11 (UPI) -- Rebuilding Afghanistan is harder than defeating the Taliban, a former NATO commander said. Dutch Maj. Gen. Ton van Loon, who handed over command of the International Security and...

Analysis: Summer camp in Heiligendamm.
June 12, 2007... Byline: STEFAN NICOLA HEILIGENDAMM, Germany, June 12 (UPI) -- Massive protests outside Heiligendamm, cozy words between leaders and deals on climate change and development aid inside the German Baltic Sea resort. Despite criticism from...

Review of the Arab press.
June 12, 2007... AMMAN, Jordan, June 12 (UPI) -- London-based al-Quds al-Arabi's commentary Tuesday discussed corruption in the Arab world, especially in the Gulf, and referred to recent reports that Saudi Arabia's Prince Bandar bin Sultan had received enormous...

Analysis: S. Korea's sluggish project.
June 12, 2007... Byline: LEE JONG-HEON SEOUL, June 12 (UPI) -- Challenged by China's push to tap into North Korea's natural resources, South Korea wants to speed up economic cooperation with Pyongyang. But the efforts are unlikely to bear fruit in the near...

Analysis: The deja-vu arms race.
June 12, 2007... Byline: STEFAN NICOLA BERLIN, June 12 (UPI) -- Worldwide military spending in 2006 reached levels unseen since the Cold War, with nearly half of all money spent by the United States, and China coming in at the No. 4 spot for the first...

Analysis: U.N. renewing North Korea probes.
June 12, 2007... Byline: WILLIAM M. REILLY UNITED NATIONS, June 12 (UPI) -- The United Nations is taking another close look at the U.N. Development Program operation in North Korea. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Monday said he would seek an...

Analysis: Gaza clashes peak.
June 12, 2007... Byline: JOSHUA BRILLIANT TEL AVIV, Israel, June 12 (UPI) -- The Palestinian power struggle between the nationalist Fatah Party and Islamic Hamas peaked Tuesday with Hamas reportedly scoring a significant victory by occupying the National...

Analysis: Divorce, Palestinian-style.
June 13, 2007... Byline: CLAUDE SALHANI WASHINGTON, June 13 (UPI) -- Heavy fighting resumed between opposing Palestinian factions in Gaza, raising the specter of civil war once again. As the week began to unfold, new clashes erupted between forces loyal to...

Review of the Arab press.
June 13, 2007... AMMAN, Jordan, June 13 (UPI) -- Arab newspapers commented Wednesday on the resumption of violent clashes between Fatah and Hamas gunmen in the Gaza Strip this week in which at least 30 people have been killed, warning of a civil war. The...

Walker's World: Iran's oil weapon.
June 13, 2007... Byline: MARTIN WALKER WASHINGTON, June 13 (UPI) -- Now that U.S. President George W. Bush at the G8 summit has mended at least some of his fences with the Europeans over global warming and with Russia over installing anti-missile systems...

Analysis: U.S. focus on Palestine-Israel.
June 13, 2007... Byline: MEGAN HARRIS WASHINGTON, June 13 (UPI) -- Resolving the longstanding Israeli-Palestinian dispute should be made a priority of U.S. foreign policy, say Middle East experts. At a conference earlier this week hosted by the Century...

Analysis: Detente over fear of Iran.
June 13, 2007... Byline: STEFAN NICOLA BERLIN, June 13 (UPI) -- While a joint U.S.-Russian missile defense system operated from a radar station in Azerbaijan may not make much sense, Russian President Vladimir Putin's proposal established one fact: Iran is...

Analysis: Peres, Barak to prop Israel's PM.
June 13, 2007... Byline: JOSHUA BRILLIANT TEL AVIV, Israel, June 13 (UPI) -- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's weak, unpopular government Wednesday seemed to get a shot in the arm with the election of Nobel Peace Laureate Shimon Peres as Israel's next...

Analysis: Is U.N. Darfur accord real?
June 13, 2007... Byline: WILLIAM M. REILLY UNITED NATIONS, June 13 (UPI) -- The Sudanese government says it accepted an African Union-United Nations peacekeeping operation to enter the Darfur region after an AU-U.N. accord on clarifications about the...

Analysis: Hamas seizes large Gazan areas.
June 13, 2007... Byline: JOSHUA BRILLIANT TEL AVIV, Israel, June 14 (UPI) -- Islamic Hamas militants have reportedly seized control over many areas in the Gaza Strip routing their Fatah rivals, some of whom have fled to Egypt. The Islamic victories...

Review of the Arab press.
June 14, 2007... AMMAN, Jordan, June 14 (UPI) -- Egypt's al-Gomhuria commented Thursday sectarian sedition is being re-ignited in Iraq with the second attack on the Shiite Golden Mosque in Samarra. The semi-official daily noted in its editorial the first attack...

Analysis: Germany fears new atomic age.
June 14, 2007... Byline: STEFAN NICOLA BERLIN, June 14 (UPI) -- Germany's security experts are convinced that the world is heading for a new and "more dangerous" atomic age as international conflicts take on further heat. Escalating violence in...

Analysis: N. Korea progress buoys Seoul.
June 14, 2007... Byline: LEE JONG-HEON SEOUL, June 14 (UPI) -- Buoyed by fresh momentum to revive North Korea's nuclear disarmament process, South Korea has decided to resume food aid to the famine-hit communist neighbor despite criticism at home about...

Atlantic Eye: Putin's Bush-whack.
June 14, 2007... Byline: MARC S. ELLENBOGEN PRAGUE, Czech Republic, June 14 (UPI) -- Last week in the German resort town of Heiligendamm, U.S. President George W. Bush had a key anchor of his strategic security policy submitted to a reality check. At the...

Analysis: Kurt Waldheim's legacy.
June 14, 2007... Byline: WILLIAM M. REILLY UNITED NATIONS, June 14 (UPI) -- Kurt Waldheim, the fourth U.N. secretary-general and a former president of Austria, has taken details of his time in the German Army during World War II with him to the grave. ...

Analysis: At what cost the Olympics?
June 14, 2007... Byline: SHIHOKO GOTO WASHINGTON, June 14 (UPI) -- With only a year to go until the Summer Olympics, advocacy groups worldwide are ratcheting up efforts to expose the dark side of China, from child labor exploitation to forced relocation of...

Outside View: Easy step to Iran sanctions.
June 15, 2007... Byline: MICHAEL JACOBSON WASHINGTON, June 15 (UPI) -- As the United Nations formulates the next round of sanctions against Iran, it should consider including something missing from the two earlier Security Council resolutions on the...

Analysis: All-out civil war in Palestine.
June 15, 2007... Byline: CLAUDE SALHANI WASHINGTON, June 15 (UPI) -- The violent confrontation between warring Palestinian factions unfolding in Gaza is far more than a civil war. It's a coup d'etat accompanied by a civil war. And it's also the most...

Policy Watch: Putin's BMD game.
June 15, 2007... Byline: MARK N. KATZ WASHINGTON, June 15 (UPI) -- In order to prevent the United States from establishing a ballistic missile defense system aimed at Iran in Poland and the Czech Republic -- which Moscow sees as actually directed against...

Analysis: Eyes focused on N. Korea.
June 15, 2007... Byline: LEE JONG-HEON SEOUL, June 15 (UPI) -- Concerns are growing about what North Korea will do next to resolve the nuclear standoff after its long-standing demand for a money transfer has finally been met, clearing the main stumbling...

Analysis: U.N. concerns over Gaza events.
June 15, 2007... Byline: WILLIAM M. REILLY UNITED NATIONS, June 15 (UPI) -- The first concern expressed by U.N. officials following recent violent events in Gaza is for the welfare of residents, followed by worry for the immediate future of the area. One...

Commentary: Mideast's wheel of misfortune.
June 18, 2007... Byline: ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE WASHINGTON, June 18 (UPI) -- The law of unintended consequences continues to throw up more consequences that were not intended. Israel is now boxed in between three pro-Iran entities (Syria, Hezbollah and...

Review of the Arab press.
June 18, 2007... AMMAN, Jordan, June 18 (UPI) -- Arab newspapers commented Monday on Hamas' takeover of the Gaza Strip after fierce battles, with many saying it constitutes the worst setback for the Palestinian cause and achieving Palestinian aspirations. The...

Analysis: New Middle East realities.
June 18, 2007... Byline: CLAUDE SALHANI WASHINGTON, June 18 (UPI) -- U.S. President George W. Bush and the neo-conservatives wanted to change the map of the Middle East; in that they have succeeded. But what they did not count on was that the changes would...

Walker's World: Tony Blair's Waterloo.
June 18, 2007... Byline: MARTIN WALKER WASHINGTON, June 18 (UPI) -- The last full week of Tony Blair's tenure as prime minister opened Monday on the anniversary of Napoleon's great defeat at the battle of Waterloo in 1815. This time, however, embattled...

Outside View: Israel after the elections.
June 18, 2007... Byline: YEVGENY SATANOVSKY MOSCOW, June 18 (UPI) -- Israel has just held a series of elections. In any other country, they would have resulted in major changes in the political and economic situation, but not there. Former Prime...

Analysis: Berlin vs. Warsaw over EU future.
June 18, 2007... Byline: STEFAN NICOLA BERLIN, June 18 (UPI) -- After a successful Group of Eight summit in Heiligendamm, German Chancellor Angela Merkel will try to use her behind-the-scenes diplomacy to revive the European Union's constitution. However,...

Analysis: Sudan's unconditional OK to U.N.
June 18, 2007... Byline: WILLIAM M. REILLY UNITED NATIONS, June 18 (UPI) -- Over the weekend, members of the U.N. Security Council took their argument for a 23,000-member hybrid U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force in embattled Darfur to Sudan's capital...

Analysis: Palestinians face uncharted sea.
June 18, 2007... Byline: JOSHUA BRILLIANT JERUSALEM, June 18 (UPI) -- Hamas' takeover of the Gaza Strip presents the Palestinians with a new phenomenon: One nation, two states, and rival political concepts. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of the...

Realpolitik: Hamas' bittersweet victory.
June 19, 2007... Byline: ALON BEN-MEIR NEW YORK, June 19 (UPI) -- Thanks to Fatah's ineptitude and corruption, Israel's shortsightedness and the Bush administration's misguided policies, Hamas is now in control of the Gaza Strip, setting the stage for...

Review of the Arab press.
June 19, 2007... AMMAN, Jordan, June 19 (UPI) -- Arab newspapers continued to comment Tuesday on Hamas' takeover of the Gaza Strip, the presence of separate Palestinian governments in the West Bank and Gaza and their repercussions. Jordan's al-Arab al-Yawm said...

Analysis: N. Korea's Japan group in crisis.
June 19, 2007... Byline: LEE JONG-HEON SEOUL, June 19 (UPI) -- North Korea is expected to face a further financial squeeze as its biggest overseas network in Japan, which has served as a major financial lifeline for the communist regime, is on the verge of...

Outside View: Iran arming the Taliban?
June 19, 2007... Byline: THOMAS HOULAHAN WASHINGTON, June 19 (UPI) -- Speaking in Paris last week, Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns, after accusing the Iranian government of backing insurgencies throughout the Middle East,...

Analysis: Icy German-Polish relations.
June 19, 2007... Byline: STEFAN NICOLA BERLIN, June 19 (UPI) -- Just as Berlin needs Warsaw's support for a decision on the future of the European Union, German-Polish relations are in their most troubled state since the fall of the Berlin Wall. "In...

Analysis: What changed after Lebanon War?
June 19, 2007... Byline: JOSHUA BRILLIANT JERUSALEM, June 19 (UPI) -- The 2006 Second Lebanon War claimed its first high political casualty as Amir Peretz, the Israeli defense minister, stepped down Tuesday, to be replaced by former Prime Minister Ehud...

Analysis: U.N.: Prep for aging population.
June 19, 2007... Byline: WILLIAM M. REILLY UNITED NATIONS, June 19 (UPI) -- While the United Nations says the world's aging population will impact both developed and developing countries, adverse effects may be countered by policy initiatives to harness...

Review of the Arab press.
June 20, 2007... AMMAN, Jordan, June 20 (UPI) -- The Palestinian al-Quds said in its editorial Wednesday the Palestinian cause has become a regional and international "game" of struggles, describing the crisis in Gaza as part of the Iranian-Syrian strategy, not...