elaborate a peace agreement between Palestine and Israel is explained by his desire to secure the existence of the free and democratic Israeli state, which would be doomed if the present-day tendencies (the growth of the Palestinian population, Palestine’s military advance and so on) continue.
The New York Times published a short article about the recent appointment of Iran’s new acting oil minister. Yesterday President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad appointed Ali-Abadi, former head of Iran’s Olympic Committee, as the new caretaker chief of the country’s oil ministry. According to the author of the article, the whole thing is part of a big political game unfolding in the country. The skirmish over the ministry was the third public dispute in the last three months between Ahmadinejad and the hard-line establishment, the author underlines.
The Jerusalem Post published an interview with Israeli President Shimon Peres, in which he said that all Middle Eastern countries should be concerned about Iran. President Peres also said that they should build a missile-defense system to protect the world from Iran. "Every country in the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia and Egypt, are in Iranian missiles' range," Peres said.
Hurriyet published an article devoted to political skirmishes in Turkey that is advancing the July 12 elections. Turkey needs a project that brings more unity and tolerance, based on an awareness that we are not a homogenous but a heterogeneous society, the author says, admitting that Turkey is a country in which politics cannot be conducted peacefully and in a civilized manner.
