Saudi and Israeli discomfort with Obama
“Many inside America’s so-called ‘Jewish lobby’, are reportedly frustrated with the Israeli leadership’s failure to respond to the developing new order that is flowing from the ‘Arab Spring’.”
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“Many inside America’s so-called ‘Jewish lobby’, are reportedly frustrated with the Israeli leadership’s failure to respond to the developing new order that is flowing from the ‘Arab Spring’.”
Jon Snow blogs on President Barack Obama’s visit to the UK.
As Barack Obama prepares to deliver a major speech on US foreign policy in the Middle East, Channel 4 News US politics analyst Felicity Spector looks at his options.
As world powers reassess their relationships to Middle Eastern states, in a major speech President Barack Obama sets out a strategy for Israel and Palestine while offering aid to new regimes.
Al-Qaeda releases a tape said to feature Osama bin Laden praising this year’s uprisings in the Middle East and calling for more Muslim “tyrants” to be toppled.
Up to 850 Syrians may have been killed in brutal Government crackdowns on protesters, the United Nations human rights office says. Thousands have also been arrested.
Nothing so scars an American President as un-success. Contrast the fortunes of Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama. Helicopter failure afflicted both in their high profile rescue missions, it destroyed the Presidency of one, and may well have forged a second term for the other.
Thousands of people gather for the wedding of the century at Westminster Abbey as Prince William marries Kate Middleton.
Whooping as you string up the bunting or throwing a royal wobbly? Channel 4 News takes a look at some of the alternative Royal Wedding events, plus a guide to avoiding the national party altogether.
The Syrian Ambassador’s invite to the Royal Wedding is withdrawn as Channel 4 News learns envoys from countries with questionable human rights records, such as North Korea and Iran, are attending.
The guest list is out, the seating plan has been revealed but not everyone in Britain is proving keen to celebrate the Royal Wedding.
As turmoil rages in the Middle East, the Duke of York’s business connections are beginning to unravel.
It was fine shipping potentially repressive equipment so long as the population was quiescent. Suddenly it wasn’t.
Our Washington Correspondent, Sarah Smith looks at the questions the Obama Administration is still to answer about its intervention in Libya.
Jonathan Rugman has witnessed four uprisings – Tunisisa, Egypt, Libya and Bahrain – in less than four months. And when the dust finally settles, he sees democracy on the horizon in the Arab world.