In The News Now (ITN2): Islamic World Newswire; Islamic World in the News Now: Poll success for Bahrain Shia bloc

In The News Now (ITN2): Islamic World Newswire; Islamic World in the News Now: Poll success for Bahrain Shia bloc

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In The News Now (ITN2): Islamic World Newswire; Islamic World in the News Now: Poll success for Bahrain Shia bloc: "Bahrain's main Shia Muslim opposition group has won nearly half of the seats in parliament in an election it says was marred by irregular..."

In The News Now (ITN2): Islamic World Newswire; Islamic World in the News Now: Lauren Booth's conversion to Islam

In The News Now (ITN2): Islamic World Newswire; Islamic World in the News Now: Lauren Booth's conversion to Islam

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In The News Now (ITN2): Islamic World Newswire; Islamic World in the News Now: Lauren Booth's conversion to Islam: "By becoming a Muslim, Tony Blair's sister-in-law has made a clear political statement about the society she has rejected Andrew Brown Spir..."

The Elders' View Of the Middle East

The Elders' View Of the Middle East

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The Elders' View Of the Middle East

By Jimmy Carter
Sunday, September 6, 2009

During the past 16 months I have visited the Middle East four times and met with leaders in Israel, Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, the West Bank and Gaza. I was in Damascus when President Obama made his historic speech in Cairo, which raised high hopes among the more-optimistic Israelis and Palestinians, who recognize that his insistence on a total freeze of settlement expansion is the key to any acceptable peace agreement or any positive responses toward Israel from Arab nations.
Late last month I traveled to the region with a group of "Elders," including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, former presidents Fernando Henrique Cardoso of Brazil and Mary Robinson of Ireland, former prime minister Gro Brundtland of Norway and women's activist Ela Bhatt of India. Three of us had previously visited Gaza, which is now a walled-in ghetto inhabited by 1.6 million Palestinians, 1.1 million of whom are refugees from Israel and the West Bank and receive basic humanitarian assistance from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency. Israel prevents any cement, lumber, seeds, fertilizer and hundreds of other needed materials from entering through Gaza's gates. Some additional goods from Egypt reach Gaza through underground tunnels. Gazans cannot produce their own food nor repair schools, hospitals, business establishments or the 50,000 homes that were destroyed or heavily damaged by Israel's assault last January.
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