Mr. Ghali says he sacked a second imam in 2000 for preaching too much about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
America could, if it chose, deploy real power in the Arab-Israeli conflict, but domestic politics oblige its diplomats to tread delicately.
In the meantime, Arabs and Muslims wait to hear his words on their most important, most intractable problem: the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Arab leaders still tell visitors like General Powell they would like to see a more balanced US role in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
They had contended for years that the Arab-Israeli conflict had been transformed.
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Other issues include Somalia, Yemen, the Arab-Israeli conflict, international terrorism and making the Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction, Zebari said.
Such hostility as does exist is mainly focused on the Bush administration's stance on particular policies, such as the Arab-Israeli conflict or global warming.
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And in GCSE history there were opportunities to study up to the end of the last century, including topics on Ireland and the Arab-Israeli conflict.
And as NPR's Michele Kelemen reports, Rice is merely testing the waters rather than plunging in to the Baker group's idea to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Mr Anderson said that the diplomats' letter has not accurately reflected what the prime minister said on the Arab-Israeli conflict, following his Washington summit with the president.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank (CNN) -- We -- you, me, and the rest of the world -- have been voyeurs to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict for a long time.
But after four-and-a-half years of reading and hearing what Palestinian political, religious, and intellectual leaders write and say, I have sadly concluded that the Arab-Israeli conflict has yet to undergo a fundamental transformation.
As key Western allies and important regional players, their support and clout is needed in dealing with many of the region's intractable conflicts: in Lebanon, Iraq, the Arab-Israeli conflict and the ongoing stand-off with Iran.
Consequently, the most fundamental contribution the U.S. can make to stabilizing the situation in the Palestinian Authority is to align its Palestinian policy and its policy on the Arab-Israeli conflict with wider U.S. policy goals.
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At present, the most up to date point at which the current conflict might be addressed in the curriculum would be likely to be the Arab-Israeli conflict and subsequent peace process in the 1960s and 1970s.
Moreover, he recognized that the US's primary role in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict was not to mediate a dispute the Palestinians are unwilling to reconcile, but to stand by Israel as America's main ally in the region.
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There are flashpoints on the periphery (an Iran or Iraq gathering weapons of mass destruction), but the end of the cold war has made the Arab-Israeli conflict far less likely to cause a big explosion in world affairs.
The guiding notion behind this paradigm, which has been the prominent goal of U.S. Middle East policy since the 1970s is that it is possible to end the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and defuse the Arab-Israeli conflict as a whole by Israeli appeasement of the Palestinians.
And in the context of that enhanced stability the U.S. would hopefully feel free to be a more effective encourager of the hard steps needed to calm the Arab-Israeli conflict, which is not the only source of but the obvious modern source of our current woes.
It does not want to be viewed solely through the prism of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
But everyone wants to know what the president will say about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Does that sense of a moment of opportunity also apply to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?
We all recognize how vital it could be to see a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The Afghan war and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are also high on their list of grievances.
We discussed our mutual interest in seeing a peaceful resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Dr Williams also issued a call for peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the Middle East.
The snub by the three countries indicates growing discord in the Arab world regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
But one analyst of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict cautioned against putting "dangerously high" expectations on the incoming administration.
Does the President still think that American involvement and American mediation is necessary for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?
An Arab summit , the first for four years, was held in Cairo to consider the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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