Syria's increasing emergance from isolation comes without paying a price. Washington's decision to return its envoy to Damascus aims to help restart Israeli-Syrian peace talks.
Pollster reports that Palestinians on the street want Mahmoud Abbas to remain as head of the Palestinian Authority and believe his threat to quit is legitimate and not a strategy.
Operation Respec't's education director Mark Weiss came to the region to begin training teachers to implement curriculum in local schools. OR is headed by Peter Paul and Mary's Peter Yarrow and McGraw-Hill's Dr. Charlotte Frank
