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Arab States Weekly Review 6th – 12th Nov 2010

Eight months after the general elections in Iraq, a power-sharing deal to form a new government is close to being struck. An outline agreement seemed likely to bring about a government that keeps Nuri Al-Maliki in the post of prime minister.

Barack Obama criticised Israeli plans to build another 1,000-plus housing units in East Jerusalem, which the Palestinians regard as their future capital. Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister who is about to visit Washington, responded by saying “Jerusalem is not a settlement.”