Leaders of 3 Mideast nations to visit White House

April 5, 2013 @ 2:49 pm

WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House says leaders of three Mideast nations will visit President Barack Obama this spring.

Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani of Qatar plans to visit the White House on April 23. King Abdullah II of Jordan is scheduled to visit three days later. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is scheduled to follow on May 16.

The three countries are important U.S. allies in the region on economic and foreign policy matters. Their visit's follow Obama's trip to the Mideast last month.

The White House also announced that U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will make an Oval Office visit on April 11 to discuss civil war in Syria and other matters.


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  • hnuh wrote...
    03-14-2013 US: Israel must...
    March 14, 2013 2:05 pm
    Either the White House is living in truly loony leftist land or it is genuinely malicious or probably both... The public in the middle east? You mean the illiterate fanatic woman stoning boy humping "man on the street" in the middle east? The suicide bombing baby murdering rocket slinging "death to Israel" public? Israel needs to gird her nuclear loins and prepare to go it without ol' Uncle Sam as long as 0bama's in the bosses chair...
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  • cigarfan wrote...
    @hnuh
    March 15, 2013 6:10 am
    You are a good example of someone who consumes right wing media and adopts the Xenophobic, racist and ethnocentric mindset that is perpetuated by the interests of Empire.
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  • hnuh wrote...
    @Cigarfan,
    March 15, 2013 7:57 am
    Actually the stonings, the suicide bombings, the rockets, the illiterate fanatics, the boy humping, the baby murdering, the "death to Israel" are all documented non political facts. (They are neither right or left wing) They are facts. Your response is a stereotypical non reasoned lefty loon ad hominum personal attack, it is genuinely a stupid, bigoted statement. Your statement demonstrates your evident lack of intellectual depth, imagination, compassion, moral center, brotherly love, collective soul, geist, etcetera etcetera etcetera. A hollow man, matter in motion, material,(see the dialectic) nothing more. C S Lewis referred to the "Trousered Ape"...
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  • cigarfan wrote...
    @hnuh
    March 15, 2013 1:06 pm
    I'm not saying some of what you said -are not facts. What I'm saying is because you only give ONE side of the story what martyrs & hand rockets are in RESPONSE to (and the rest of your hyperbole is present in all countries including Israel), you are echoing right wing viewpoints -which do not explain Israel's apartheid, ethnic cleansing and colonialism of East Jerusalem and the West bank, nor the Siege/Blockade of the Gaza Strip. This is the basis of your problem, the inability to explain what is driving resistance -Occupation breeds Resistance.
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  • Mavila wrote...
    "Obama aim: Keep Mideast troubles from boiling over"
    March 16, 2013 2:38 pm
    It seems to me that the middle east has already boiled over in Libya, Egypt, Syria, and Tunisia.

    Things are simmering in Bahrain, Yemen, and Jordan, too.

    The AP gets the Head in Dark Place Award.

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  • CH wrote...
    We Three Kings of Orient Are
    April 5, 2013 2:34 pm
    http://youtu.be/k8mjRxkMBkE
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  • HPD 5-0 wrote...
    If today, the Palistinians laid down their arms, tomorrow there would be no war. If today, Israel laid down their arms, tomorrow there would be no Israel.
    April 6, 2013 8:34 am
    Yep.
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