Marc Perelman
By Marc Perelman
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News Bush Quietly Supports U.N. Force To Stop Congo Massacre
UNITED NATIONS — After going to war in Iraq without the United Nations’ backing, the Bush administration is quietly supporting the idea of sending a U.N.-mandated multinational force to try to stop the unfolding disaster in the Democratic Republic of Congo, formerly known as Zaire. The U.N. Security Council agreed in principle this week to…
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News Look Who’s Talking Iranian Democracy: Son of the Late Shah
Reza Pahlavi does not see any contradiction between being the son of a king and a leading voice for democracy. On the contrary, said Pahlavi, the 42-year-old exiled son of the late shah of Iran, his name recognition can help fuel the growing tide of opposition to the mullahs who overthrew his father in 1979….
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News New Islamist Network Seen Emerging From Blasts
As terrorists struck on three continents in an explosive wave of suicide attacks last week and the United States was put on its second-highest level of alert, Western analysts noted growing signs of coordination between Al Qaeda and regional Islamic groups previously seen as unrelated to it, including Hamas. The links, some experts suggested, indicate…
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News Endorsement of Papal Declaration Sought
Jewish communal leaders are seeking the Vatican’s support in a campaign to have national bishops’ conferences around the world endorse a papal denunciation of antisemitism as a sin. The issue was to figure prominently in a meeting in Rome slated for this Thursday between Pope John Paul II and World Jewish Congress leaders Edgar Bronfman…
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News New Front Sets Sights On Toppling Iran Regime
A budding coalition of conservative hawks, Jewish organizations and Iranian monarchists is pressing the White House to step up American efforts to bring about regime change in Iran. For now, President Bush’s official stance is to encourage the Iranian people to push the mullah regime aside themselves, but observers believe that the policy is not…
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News Palestinians, Israelis To Release Joint Peace Initiatives
While the world’s attention is focused on President Bush’s “road map” to peace, high-level groups of Israeli and Palestinian activists are crafting a brace of independent initiatives, several of which are due to be published soon. The initiatives, which spell out the nature of a final agreement in greater detail than the road map, are…
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News Egyptian Activist Sees Opening for Democratic Reform
The American victory in Iraq is offering a unique opportunity to promote and spread democracy in the Middle East, according to the leading Egyptian human-rights activist. “Objectionable as the war may have been, the area has one fewer dictator. So there is a true opportunity to establish new institutions, new practices and new values, including…
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News White House Is Aiming To Raise Iranian Nukes At U.N. Security Council
In a possible softening of its attitude toward the United Nations, the Bush administration has decided to bring the issue of Iran’s nuclear program to the U.N. Security Council. While it bypassed the world body to deal with Iraq militarily and is trying to handle North Korea’s recently revealed nuclear capability through regional talks, the…
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