Middle East – The Obama initiative

Middle East Countries

Country Capital Country Capital
Algeria Algiers Oman Muscat
Bahrain Manama Palestine NA
Egypt Cairo Qatar Doha
Iraq Baghdad Saudi Arabia Riyadh
Iran Teheran Sudan Khartoum
Israel Jerusalem Syria Damascus
Jordan Amman Tunisia Tunis
Kuwait Kuwait Turkey Ankara
Lebanon Beirut UAE Abu Dhabi
Libya Tripoli Yemen Sana
Morocco Rabat
The Obama initiative…..
Obama has promised to withdraw combat
troops from Iraq within 16 month.
Obama gave economic rescue package for
the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
 Obama is putting the final touches to a
hugely ambitious plan for the Middle East,
aimed at ending more than 60 years conflict
between Israel and the Arabs.
 Obama emphasized that his foreign policy
approach towards Muslim nations will be
firm on leaders “who seek to sow conflict or
blame their society’s ills on the west” but
that “we will extend a hand if you are willing
to unclench your first.”
 Obama’s major proposed alteration in the
Saudi peace plan is for Arab countries to
grant citizenship to approximately five million
Arabs who are descendants of former
Israelis while allowing them the right to
move to new Palestinian authority country.
Obama made a flurry of calls to Arab and
Israeli leaders in a signal that Middle East
peacemaking is a top priority following
Israeli aggression against Gaza.
 Obama also called on Iran to accept the
"universal right to assembly and free
speech" if it wanted to be respected by the
international community.
 The Obama Administration is pushing for a
comprehensive peace agreement that would
include settling Israel’s conflict with the
Palestinians and its territorial disputes with
Syria and Lebanon
 Obama is committed to bring a form of
peace to the Middle East that would allow
the Palestinians to eventually have a state of
some sort.
Thank you