By Jim Lobe WASHINGTON, May 18 (IPS) – While reaffirming the “special relationship” between their two countries, U.S. President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared unable to bridge major differences in their approaches to Iran and Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts following their White House meeting here Monday.

By Hani Hazaimeh with agency dispatches May 18, 2009 DEAD SEA – “If Israel continues not to accept solving the Palestinian issue on the basis of a two-state solution, then the other option before us is one democratic state in which Muslims, Christians and Jews live side by side enjoying the same rights,” Arab League Secretary General Amr [...]