This resolution should explicitly supersede the three resolutions that until now have been cited as the legal norm for Middle East relations: Security Council resolutions 242 and 338 (regarding the return of territory) and General Assembly resolution 194 (regarding the return of Palestinian refugees to their former homes).
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Consequently, he moved to the Middle East to work in security and management in Kuwait.
Feith, deputy assistant secretary of defense and Middle East specialist, National Security Council.
Obviously, the situation in the Middle East implicates our energy security.
Should this ambition be realized or even the conditions created which encourage the Arabs once again to believe they can wage war to achieve it the United States would find its defense posture in the Middle East weakened and the security value of its alliances dangerously diminished.
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Mr Blair said he had "misgivings" over the Israeli security fence but the only way of dealing with the Middle East situation was to sort out security issues.
Mr. Abrams, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, handled Middle East affairs at the National Security Council from 2001 to 2009.
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Many in Jerusalem have taken heart from the appointment of Elliott Abrams as the director of the Middle East desk at the National Security Council.
"The ongoing turmoil in many countries across North Africa and the Middle East has led to serous security issues for locals and expatriates, " says Mercer's Parakatil.
Feith, who was formerly a Middle East specialist on the National Security Council staff and a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, and the Center's director, Frank J.
Not to mention a varied and unpredictable portfolio of international challenges -- from a volatile Middle East to evolving economic and security challenges in an Asia increasingly defined by China.
Bruce Reidel, a Clinton holdover who has echoed the state department's emphasis on the need to maintain an Arab coalition, is due to leave his job as head of the national security council Middle East desk next week.
Jeffrey Feltman -- an assistant secretary of state who is the department's top official on the Middle East -- and National Security Council official Daniel Shapiro traveled to Damascus twice in recent months in an effort to improve ties with Syria.
She is a fellow at the Middle East Forum and the Center for Security Policy.
You have said that Middle East peace is in the national security interest of your country.
Big producers in the Middle East and elsewhere are plagued by security woes.
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She is the Jerusalem Post's deputy managing editor and is senior Middle East fellow of the Center for Security Policy in Washington, D.
Meanwhile the UN Middle East envoy Robert Serry told the Security Council that Jewish settlements were contrary to international law and increasingly an obstacle to peace, our correspondent says.
As for Obama's treatment of Israel, some 42.7% of Americans believe that the president's Middle East policies harm Israel's security, and only 29.6% believe that they are improving Israel's security situation.
Robert Serry, Special Coordinator for the Middle East peace process and Personal Representative of the Secretary-General, told the Security Council today that diplomatic efforts to reinvigorate the Middle East peace process had continued, and recent meetings -- including of the Quartet on Friday -- were part of a concentrated push to create the conditions for re-launching efforts for a two-State solution.
It is one more sign of an alarming deterioration of the security situation across the Middle East.
Blackwater is not the only security contractor in the Middle East.
Beyond the daily benefits the US enjoys from its close ties with Israel, the US has three fundamental, permanent, vital national security interests in the Middle East.
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In addition to this there are issues of African poverty, global warming, security issues in the Middle East, and the fight to prepare all nations for any future natural disasters.
As American defense professionals, we view Middle East peace negotiations through the prism of American security interests.
In light of the foregoing, the Center for Security Policy believes that American Middle East policy simply cannot continue on its present course.
Closer EU contacts with Iran are seen in European capitals as crucial for bolstering security in and around the Middle East, the Gulf and Central Asia including Afghanistan.
My government will ensure strong arrangements for defence based on the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, and promote international peace and security, especially in the Middle East and in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
On the diplomatic front, Paul Patton, a U.S. Embassy official in Tel Aviv, told CNN that Anthony Zinni, the U.S. envoy to the Middle East, met with the Palestinian and Israeli security officials Sunday and they agreed to meet again soon.
Bergen has written about al-Qaeda, Afghanistan, Pakistan, counterterrorism, homeland security and countries around the Middle East for a range of American newspapers and magazines including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Foreign Affairs, The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, TIME, The Nation, The National Interest, Mother Jones, Newsweek, Washington Times and Vanity Fair.
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