Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LIII

No 39

27-Sep-2010

Political Comment (27 September 2010)

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has gone out of his way to alienate the US and EU at the UN General Assembly. The international Quartet is urging Israel not to resume construction in the West Bank when its partial freeze on settlement building expires shortly.

Ahmadinejad At The UN

In his 23 September address to the UN General Assembly, President Barack Obama again held out an olive branch of sorts...