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Oil markets have been tetchy of late, seeing sharp upticks on the back of the Israel-Palestine conflict.
FORBES: Why Oil Markets Are Watching The Wrong Middle East Crisis
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And, in the Arab world especially, it will depend on whether America keeps its promise to push for a peaceful solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict.
ECONOMIST: Those awkward hearts and minds
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The Likud, like Kadima and Labour, purported to support (or at least to acquiesce in) the view that the Israel-Palestine conflict can be solved by creating two sovereign states existing side by side.
ECONOMIST: Israeli politics
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No prizes for guessing that the preceding quandary concerns Israel and Palestine, a conflict and set of dilemmas that has beset American foreign policy ever since Acheson's time, when Harry Truman decided to support the establishment of an Israeli state.
ECONOMIST: New world ahead
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Regardless of impressive strength from Cisco on strong earnings and Facebook despite a lock-up expiration, weak economic data, uncertainty over the fiscal cliff, and the escalation of a military conflict between Israel and Palestine have conspired to keep the pressure on equities.
FORBES: U.S. Stocks Fall On Fiscal Cliff And Israeli-Palestine Conflict; Facebook And Cisco Shine
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His books include Kashmir: Roots of Conflict, Paths to Peace (Harvard, 2003), and Contested Lands: Israel-Palestine, Kashmir, Bosnia, Cyprus and Sri Lanka (Harvard, 2007).
BBC: Kashmir's summer of discontent is now an autumn of woe