{"id":3072,"date":"2004-12-18T09:37:54","date_gmt":"2004-12-18T09:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=3072"},"modified":"2004-12-18T09:37:54","modified_gmt":"2004-12-18T09:37:54","slug":"2004-12-18-the-rabat-summit-the-admin-responds-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=3072","title":{"rendered":"The Rabat Summit: The Admin Responds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">Obviously peeved at poor press reviews, the admin is responding that some good did come out of  the Moroccan-held &#8220;Fourm of the Future,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A8795-2004Dec17.html\">according to the post this morning<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The key passage:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Arab-Israeli issue is a very important issue in that region, just to state the obvious,&#8221; one official acknowledged at a briefing for about two dozen journalists. But he said reporters, who were not permitted inside the conference rooms during the Rabat session, missed the bigger picture. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is a sense of urgency that you felt in the room as you heard countries talking about the importance of reform,&#8221; he said. &#8220;What has changed is that we have created a mechanism now for countries to participate fully with their neighbors in the room to talk about issues of reform.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Created a mechanism? What does that mean? A meeting is now a mechanism to facilitating reform? <\/p>\n<p>A sense of urgency? Are we now meeting and interpretating the atmosphere as a sign of conferences&#8217; success\/failure?<\/p>\n<p>This is &#8220;project 3000&#8221; &#8211;  refoming the Arab world by year 3000.  <\/p>\n<p>Excuse me for being critical and cynical&#8230;. I did not understand the fuller picture. I need to start reading between the subtle feelings and lines of such events before lashing out.  <\/p>\n<p>I am glad the world is ordered again and progress\/reform is coming.  I&#8217;ll just sit and wait for it to come&#8230;..<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">Obviously peeved at poor press reviews, the admin is responding that some good did come out of  the Moroccan-held &#8220;Fourm of the Future,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A8795-2004Dec17.html\">according to the post this morning<\/a>.<br \/>\nThe key passage:<br \/>\n&#8220;The Arab-Israeli issue is a very important issue in that region, just to state the obvious,&#8221; one official acknowledged at a briefing for about two dozen journalists. But he said reporters, who were not permitted inside the conference rooms during the Rabat session, missed the bigger picture.<br \/>\n&#8220;There is a sense of urgency that you felt in the room as you heard countries talking about the importance of reform,&#8221; he said. &#8220;What has changed is that we have created a mechanism now for countries to participate fully with their neighbors in the room to talk about issues of reform.&#8221;<br \/>\nCreated a mechanism? What does that mean? A meeting is now a mechanism to facilitating reform?<br \/>\nA sense of urgency? Are we now meeting and interpretating the atmosphere as a sign of conferences&#8217; success\/failure?<br \/>\nThis is &#8220;project 3000&#8221; &#8211;  refoming the Arab world by year 3000.<br \/>\nExcuse me for being critical and cynical&#8230;. I did not understand the fuller picture. I need to start reading between the subtle feelings and lines of such events before lashing out.<br \/>\nI am glad the world is ordered again and progress\/reform is coming.  I&#8217;ll just sit and wait for it to come&#8230;..<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[92],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3072"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}