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Us official warns of new sanctions if zimbabwe talks fail

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MDC Leader Morgan Tsvangirai

 Picture: (AFP/File/Desmond Kwande)

Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Leader Morgan Tsvangirai (C) leaves the Rainbow towers in Harare on October 16. Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and rival Tsvangirai are set to resume power-sharing talks for a fourth day to end a spat on key cabinet posts holding up a new unity government.

Jendayi Frazer, the top US diplomat for Africa, says The United States will consider new sanctions against Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s government if a power-sharing deal collapses.

Frazer says she was not optimistic after talks remained deadlocked between Mugabe and his main rival Morgan Tsvangirai.

Frazer told a group of reporters in Tokyo "If it doesn’t work then we are going to continue the pressure that we’ve put on the government. We will look at new sanctions against President Mugabe and his regime".
  
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Obamas cairo outreach to muslims evaporates in the heat of settlement activity

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by Iqbal Jassat

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"While Jewish analysts at the time may have held the view that Obama’s speech validated an Arab and Muslim narrative; Muslims and Palestinians in particular remain convinced that the new kid on the block holds as much promise of a “just world” as his war-mongering predecessor."

 

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 Following US President Obama’s June 4th Cairo speech to the Muslim world, a horde of analysts rushed to interpret his message. While the media was awash with all kinds of opinions, the dominant and most overwhelming one took the view that America’s new kid on the block was determined to reverse strained relations with the house of Islam caused by the Bush administration’s belligerent policies.

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The tide has changed

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 By Gilad Atzmon

(source:  www.gilad.co.uk)

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London is ‘angry’ over the use of stolen identities by the Dubai assassins and points its finger at the Jewish state and its notorious Mossad espionage agency. The Israeli ambassador to Britain, Ron Prosor, was summoned yesterday by the foreign minister to "share information". In practice Britain has stopped short of accusing Israel of involvement in the scandalous assassination, however to signal its displeasure the Foreign Office ignored an Israeli plea to keep the summons secret. "Relations were in the freezer before this. They are in the deep freeze now," a British official told the Guardian.

The British anger at Israel would be a positive signal in the right direction if we were not aware of British Foreign Secretary David Miliband investing enormous efforts trying to amend Britain’s ethical stand just to appease Tzipi Livni, Ehud Barak and other Israeli leaders.

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