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Palestine wins de facto statehood in U.N. General Assembly

The United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly passed a vote Thursday recognizing Palestine as a non-member observer state on the 65th anniversary of the U.N. resolution partitioning Palestine, which led to the establishment of Israel. Out of the...

Published Fri, Nov 30 2012 6:08 AM by The Middle East Channel

Filed under: Middle East, North Africa, Arab World, Mideast Brief

Morning Brief: General Assembly votes to upgrade Palestine

General Assembly votes to upgrade Palestine Top news: The U.N. General Assembly voted to upgrade Palestine's status to nonmember observer state against strong opposition from Israel and the United States. 138 voted for the motion with 8 opposed and...

Published Fri, Nov 30 2012 5:44 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Obama's three options

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE The Obama administration's opposition to yesterday's United Nations General Assembly vote on the Palestine Liberation Organization's (PLO) bid for non-member observer state status once again places...

Published Thu, Nov 29 2012 2:09 PM by The Middle East Channel

Filed under: Diplomacy, Middle East, Israel/Palestine, North Africa, Arab World, Middle East Poster 4

Google's Thrun: 'We're really dumbing down our children'

Google fellow and Stanford University computer scientist Sebastian Thrun -- who is ranked #4 on our Global Thinkers list for his work developing and promoting self-driving cars -- spoke during this afternoon's panel on "The New Economic Sources...

Published Thu, Nov 29 2012 1:22 PM by FP Passport

Sandoval on energy independence: It's the cars, stupid

Much of this afternoon's panel discussion on strategic resource challenges has focused on the impact of America's natural gas boom on the global energy picture. By Assistant Secretary of Energy for Policy and International Affairs David Sandoval...

Published Thu, Nov 29 2012 12:16 PM by FP Passport

Donilon on U.S.-Egyptian relations: "It is a challenge"

During an interview with FP CEO David Rothkopf today, National Security Advisor Tom Donilon reflected on America's relationship with post-revolutionary Egypt, which, in recent weeks, has earned U.S. approval for its role in resolving the Israel-Hamas...

Published Thu, Nov 29 2012 11:50 AM by FP Passport

Politicizing Egypt’s economic reform

While the gradual meltdown of the Egyptian constitution-drafting process has been at center stage in Cairo over the past few months, the negotiations between the Egyptian government and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a $4.8 billion loan have...

Published Thu, Nov 29 2012 9:38 AM by The Middle East Channel

Filed under: Middle East, Foreign Aid, Economics, International Organizations, North Africa, Egypt, Arab World, Middle East Poster 4

Longterm optimism on Russia from Berger and Khalilzad

One of the themes of today's event is looking beyond the day's headlines to focus on longer-term trends. Along those lines, it was interesting to hear former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger and former Ambassador to the United Nations Zalmay...

Published Thu, Nov 29 2012 9:19 AM by FP Passport

When crises erupt, should the U.S. turn first to its European partners?

An interesting debate arose during a panel discussion this morning with current and former heads of policy planning at the State Department. When a member of the audience asked why the panelists hadn't mentioned Europe and Latin America -- two regions...

Published Thu, Nov 29 2012 7:57 AM by FP Passport

What keeps Bill Burns up at night?

After his opening remarks this morning, Deputy Secretary of State Bill Burns was asked "what keeps you up at night?" by a member of the audience. Here's what he said: Obviously, the dangers of weapons of mass destruction, both by states...

Published Thu, Nov 29 2012 7:54 AM by FP Passport

Syrian Internet goes dark

At 12:26 pm today in Syria, 92 percent of the country's networks went offline - shutting the country off almost completely from the Internet. (Update: 100 percent of Syrian networks are now offline .) The Internet blackout comes at a time when Syria's...

Published Thu, Nov 29 2012 7:54 AM by The Middle East Channel

Filed under: Middle East Editors Blog

Filed under: Middle East, North Africa, Arab World, Mideast Brief

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