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He's put [Palestinian leader) Mahmoud Abbas on the defensive and he's said 'no' to the great power, without cost and without consequences," said the analyst at the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars in Washington.

The "paradox", he argued, is that an pearl jewelry administration which began with a tough policy towards the Israelis and a "sensitive" one towards the Palestinians has now shifted the onus to the Palestinians.

But he said the Obama administration has concluded that it must, at least for now, cooperate with rather than fight the Israelis on an issue like settlements.

The administration, he said, had hoped to revive negotiations on core issues such as the borders of a future Palestinian state by obtaining a total settlement freeze in return for steps by key Arab states to normalise ties with Israel.

Unlike settlements and normalisation, he pearl earrings said, borders, the status of the disputed holy city of Jerusalem, the fate of Palestinian refugees and security for Israel are the core issues.

"They [the Obama team] need to do some fundamental rethinking about what their overall objective is and how they are going to achieve it," Miller said.

Amjad Atallah, a former legal adviser to the Abbas-led Palestinian Authority, said the US shift on settlements has only weakened Abbas further and made him more reluctant than ever to enter peace talks with Israel.

"They [Palestinians] argue that if the cultured pearl jewelry United States was not prepared to back up what it said on settlements, why would it be prepared to back up what it might say on borders?" Atallah told AFP.

The members of the US administration, believing in their powers of "moral persuasion", were caught off guard, said the analyst with the New America Foundation.

"They thought once it got into permanent status negotiations, things would go relatively quickly. What they didn't count on was the Israeli government's cultured pearl jewelryintransigence," he added.

Now that that has happened, "how do we go about reestablishing our street cred and what's our strategy going forward?" he asked.

The administration now needs, Atallah said, to devise a diplomatic strategy that matches the "high-minded principled recognition" that the Arab-Israeli conflict is pearl earrings a central threat to US national security interests.

Instead, the United States is pursuing "a business-as-usual negotiating strategy" that can only ultimately lead to a worsening situation and even violence, he warned.

Obama, in failing to deliver on settlements, seems to have reinforced the Arab narrative that the "Americans are all in the pockets of the Zionists", according pearl jewelry to Patrick Clawson of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

"It's not going to be easy, but we need to find some way to change topic," Clawson told AFP when asked about how the US can revive talks.

Professional League teams are now on a break before the sixth round of the 58th championship resumes November 26.

Standings changed dramatically after the last stage, where former champs Shabab Urdun beat Faisali 2-1 to take the lead and causing a change on the latter’s coaching staff with former veteran coach Mazhar Saeed taking over.

“We are not back to training full force. We wheat pearlare having physical checks on the squad’s readiness,” Saeed was quoted by Al Rai as saying. “No training can be complete without the players who are on national duty,’’ he added.

Wihdat dropped to third place after it was held 0-0 with Ittihad Ramtha. Shabab Urdun and Wihdat are the only unbeaten teams while Ramtha and Faisali were handed their first defeat in the 5th round.

Jazira climbed up to fifth place in the standings after it handed Ramtha its first defeat (3-0), while Karmel beat Arabi 3-1 to climb to 6th. Baqaa held 2-2 with Kufrsoum game machines to climb up a spot to 7th and Hussein held Yarmouk 1-1 to maintain its fourth place.

Faisali, who already won the Jordan Football Association (JFA) Shield and the record 30-time league champs, is hoping to clinch the league title which it last won in the 2003/04 season. It is also looking to compete in the Asian Football Confederation Cup which it won in 2005 and 2006.

Last season, Wihdat won all four  cultured pearl jewelryseason titles in a historic first. As the season kicked off, Wihdat managed to win the Cup Winners’ Cup. But lost the JFA Shield title to Faisali

Rather than be "pushed" back to Iraq due to economic or other pressures, displaced Iraqis should be "pulled" back, or attracted to return to their homeland, he stressed.

A majority of returnees within Iraq are freshwater pearl jewelry internally displaced persons, he said, noting that a widespread return of Iraqis abroad has yet to occur.

"There are indications that people are not going back the way some were thinking a year ago," he said, underlining that the impact of the ongoing violence in Iraq, particularly in host countries such as Jordan, is still being felt.

Some 500,000 Iraqis reside in the Kingdom, the vast majority classified as guests, and although they are afforded public healthcare and education, they pearl earrings are not entitled to work in Jordan.

In July, UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador wheat pearl Angelina Jolie praised Jordan for shouldering "a large burden" in providing assistance to Iraqi guests.

Jordan has granted citizenship to the wife and sons of Iraq's jailed former deputy premier Tareq Aziz who have lived in the Kingdom since the 2003 US-led invasion, an official said on Tuesday.

"The Council of Ministers granted cultured pearl jewelryJordanian citizenship on Monday to Saddam Tareq Aziz and his mother Violet Yusef Nobud," the official told AFP.

"The elder son, Ziad Tareq Aziz, and his wife, Seba Mzaffar Antwan, have been granted citizenship recently, upon their request."

He gave no further details.

Named foreign minister in 1983 and then cultured pearl jewelry deputy prime minister in 1991, Aziz, 73, turned himself in to US forces in April 2003 after Saddam Hussein was overthrown.

Aziz, who has been convicted for crimes against humanity, was from a Chaldean Catholic family.

One of a handful of long-term senior survivors of Saddam's regime, Aziz is reported to have suffered two heart attacks in custody.

About 4.4 million Iraqis have fled pearl earrings their homes since the 2003 invasion, with about 750,000 now living in the Kingdom, according to UN and Jordanian figures.