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Without an Israelis-Palestinian peace settlement, such strategic cooperation would not be palatable to the Arab public.
Such compromises may be the only way to stem the slide to civil war, and possibly co-opt Islamists into a
settlement
with Israel and rapprochement with the West.
They would prefer to clinch deals with partners one by one, without being bound by the obligation to apply liberalization measures across the board and without being forced to abide by the rulings of the WTO’s dispute
settlement
mechanism.
Meanwhile, Netanyahu allows multi-million-dollar donations for
settlement
construction by right-wing donors like Sheldon Edelson.
Another study found that an estimated 42% of the global malaria burden, including a half-million deaths annually, could be eliminated through policies focused on issues like land use, deforestation, water resource management, and
settlement
siting.
Obama’s efforts to rekindle the Middle East peace process began with Israel’s refusal to carry out a temporary
settlement
freeze.
IG Metall, Germany’s largest industrial union, which bargains for 3.4 million metal, electronics, and car workers, looks ready to accept an estimated 3.3% annual wage increase for 2007 and 2008 – a
settlement
generally considered to be “balanced and justifiable.”
This fantasy, derived, no doubt, from American history – from westward expansion and Manifest Destiny, from the Gold Rush and a
settlement
policy that valorized staking a claim to the wilderness and subduing it – is powerfully appealing to men in general, and to many women as well.
Even in many middle-income and higher-income countries, there have been surges of new and re-emerging infectious diseases, as a result of increased global travel, the opening of new regions to settlement, and the overuse of antibiotics with a resulting spread of disease-resistant parasites.
Target2, the euro’s real-time gross
settlement
system, has emerged as the eurozone’s mechanism for financing the emergence of widening structural balance-of-payments gaps, whereby capital flows out of southern Europe into Germany.
Even if this changes, a comprehensive
settlement
would help the locals but not affect the dynamics of neighboring countries or conflicts.
If a United Nations-backed
settlement
is not reached by early December, the province’s majority Albanian population is likely to declare independence unilaterally – a move that the United States has announced it may support.
In 2009, Obama envisioned a
settlement
of the conflict through the strong commitment of the international community.
There were just a few hundred settlers in the West Bank and Gaza when I became president, but the Likud government expanded
settlement
activity after I left office.
The EU has long insisted that a legally binding divorce
settlement
must be concluded before there can be any discussion of future UK-EU relations.
Others have attributed the US announcement to American domestic politics, a conclusion supported by the unilateral US statement’s failure to demand anything of Israel (for example, to restrain
settlement
construction) or offer anything to the Palestinians (say, supporting their claim to Jerusalem).
In Beijing recently, Chinese analysts told me that they believe that Japan is entering a period of right-wing militaristic nationalism, and that purchasing the islands was a deliberate effort to begin eroding the post-WWII
settlement.
In Germany, the epicenter of democracy’s collapse, radicals on both the right and the left raged against the postwar peace
settlement
and the Versailles Treaty.
But several roadblocks still stand in the way, making it very difficult for the joint AU-UN mission to bring about a peaceful
settlement
to the Darfur conflict.
More recently, Trump moved the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, despite a broad international consensus to determine the contested city’s status within the context of broader negotiations on a
settlement
of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
A permanent
settlement
on Mars would reduce the risk of climate change – or a nuclear war, bioterrorism, or asteroid collision – wiping out our species.
In the end, total exhaustion on all sides will force reconciliation and the first steps in the direction of a regional peace
settlement.
For every country other than the United States, the post-war
settlement
was in fact sugar coating on the bitter pill of dollar hegemony, which favored American companies and workers.
The question now is whether a similar
settlement
can address contemporary concerns about the legitimacy of European-level political processes.
The Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China were excluded (at least initially in the case of China), and the security aspect of the post-war
settlement
never materialized.
More to the point, Europe’s heads of state need to devise a
settlement
that breaks down the conceptual silos between economic issues – which are mistakenly treated as zero-sum battles for resources – and defense, which is widely recognized as a shared concern.
China in particular should use its considerable influence in Sudan to bring the country’s decision-makers to a definitive peaceful
settlement
of the dispute.
The world has two chief aims in the area between Cairo and Teheran: to maintain peace in the wider Middle East so that oil flows freely through the Persian Gulf; to steer the dispute between Israelis and Palestinians toward a
settlement
that guarantees the safety of Israel in its internationally recognised borders, while meeting the Palestinian people’s legitimate national aspirations for their own state.
Like most Arabs, Bashar Al-Assad views Israel from the perspective of pan-Arab anguish at Palestinian dispossession, but also sees a chance to use the Palestinians to strengthen his regime’s power by putting his own imprint on any
settlement.
Last summer, it expanded renminbi
settlement
agreements between Hong Kong and five mainland cities, and authorized HSBC Holdings to sell renminbi bonds in Hong Kong.
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