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"Should the Middle East be NATO's new central front?" - Debate with Will Marshal versus Peter Rudolf01 Jan. 2004 guarantees to facilitate a negotiated, two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A new Palestinian state would need help in disarming Hamas and other terrorist groups, while Israel would need reassurance that it would not have to bear the burden | Opinion |
"Building a NATO partnership for the Greater Middle East" by Chris Donnelly, UK Defence Academy01 Jan. 2004 . Israel’s dilemma is that, the stronger it has become militarily the less secure the Israeli population feels. An “honest broker” is needed, trusted by both sides, which can help negotiate and then enforce a sophisticated security package. The United States | Opinion |
NATO Review: 'Assessing NATO's Mediterranean Dialogue' - Article by Mohamed Kadry Said, Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies01 Jan. 2004 , or all seven Dialogue countries – Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia – the so-called 19 (now 26) + 7 format. In spite of the political nature of the Dialogue, many hard security issues lie close to its surface. Economic | Opinion |
Press conference by U.S. Secretary of State, Colin Powell following the meeting of the North Atlantic Councilat the level of...04 Dec. 2003 by side, in peace and security, with the State of Israel. In his June 24th speech, the President also spoke about the obligations that both sides had. And then, when we had the Akaba Summit meeting later that summer, both sides acknowledged | Opinion |
Regional cooperation in action03 Nov. 2003 and Switzerland attended the course. Israel and Jordan accepted invitations to the Mediterranean Dialogue countries and were represented with two participants each. This course is the seventeenth of its kind. Previous courses were conducted in Central Asia | News |
Speech by NATO Secretary General Lord Robertson23 Oct. 2003 are in parallel passing ahead with NATO's Mediterranean Dialogue. These seven nations - Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia - are increasingly important to us. Several are very interested in working more closely with the Alliance | Opinion |
The Challenge of Rebuilding Societies after War Reflections by Mr Carl Bildt at the conference "The Challenge of Rebuilding ...16 Oct. 2003 . In Iraq, there is an obvious risk of the reverse happening, with a perception that the US is heavily biased in favour of Israel creating the feeling that instead of protecting them from a common enemy, as in the case of Germany, the occupying force | Opinion |
NATO’s Future Agenda in Afghanistan and Other Regional Conflicts Contribution by Robert Serry, Deputy Assistant Secretary Ge...16 Oct. 2003 . The time has come to begin considering how NATO could be involved on the security side to help both Israel and the Palestinians reach the envisaged two states solution as the permanent end state of their conflict. I, for one, am confident that NATO | Opinion |
NATO’s Transformation Remarks by NATO Secretary General, Lord Robertsonat the Geneva Centre for Security Policy13 Oct. 2003 , we are also strengthening our 7-nation Mediterranean Dialogue. These seven countries - Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia - are keen to cooperate with NATO more closely. Incidentally, our so-called "19+7" meetings bring | Opinion |
"Are the challenges NATO faces today as great as they were in the Cold War?"01 Oct. 2003 developed effective anti-terrorist strategies as a result of our experience with ETA. That said, the threat posed by ETA is clearly very different from the suicidal terrorism we see on an almost daily basis in Israel and now in Iraq. Moreover, experience | Opinion |
