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Arab States Weekly Review 21st – 27th May 2011

US president Barack Obama in a speech celebrated the Arab Spring and promised financial aid to those transition countries seeking to build a democracy. But he annoyed Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu by stating that Israel’s border with Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with swaps.

NATO ramped up its air attacks on Tripoli, capital of Libya, and deployed Apache attack helicopters.

Prosecutors in Egypt announced that former president Hosni Mubarak and his two sons would be tried on a series of chargers including murder.

Scores of Yemenis were killed in clashes with security forces as President Ali Abdullah Saleh continued to reject a deal which would require him to leave office within 30 days.