خلق الحوار. التأثير على السياسة.
Generating Dialogue. Impacting Policy.
With the choice of the economist Adil Abdul-Mahdi as the new Iraqi Prime Minister, he faces the daunting task of guiding the government through necessary economic reform, service quality improvement, and reconstruction.
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Two fresh Palestinian public opinion polls taken in October paint a strikingly mixed picture of popular attitudes among the roughly 2.5 million Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The biggest surprise is that on many peace process issues, these Palestinians voice a harder political line than do their kinfolk in Gaza.
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Unlike the Arab Spring, on which Western observers have produced hundreds of books, articles, and documentaries, there is little attention being paid to the quieter cultural revolution that the internet has engendered.
Mutual recognition between Palestinians and Israelis is needed for reconciliation, and reconciliation is needed to achieve lasting peace. The problem is that each party views history from its own perspective, while national pride prevents either party from admitting any faults.
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Dania Koleilat Khatib points correctly to the mutual recognition of narratives and grievances as the direction for the de-escalation and ultimate resolution of the Middle East conflict. She also argues convincingly that the party with the upper hand is in the position to engage first.
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In recent years, social media has provided a digital bridge across the short but physically uncrossable geographic distance separating Palestinian populations. But within an already-divided Israeli society, social media encourages both sides to occupy mutually exclusive echo chambers, further eroding the possibility of a two-state solution.
