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Editor's update

  • The international quartet of Middle East peace mediators has called on Israel to freeze all settlement activity. Avigdor Lieberman, Israel's foreign minister, responds by saying that peace cannot be created artificially.

 

 

  • Despite a government crackdown, Iran has begun to celebrate Persian new year.

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Unhappy Yemen
(London Review of Books)
Tarif Khalidi wonders about the likelihood of new civil wars in Yemen

The two-state solution
(Boston Study Group on Middle East Peace)
A group of academics asks if not now, when, for a two-state solution between Israel and Palestine

Hezbollah's make-over
(Foreign Policy)
In Lebanon, Hezbollah mixes paintball with piety

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