The negotiating process, according to political columnist Murat Yetkin, has come to a virtual halt.

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Akiva Eldar is a senior political columnist at Tel Aviv's Haaretz newspaper.

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Norman Spector, a political columnist for The Toronto Globe and Mail, says even Canadians who don't support full legalization have come to sympathize with Emery.

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"There is this new avenue developing where national security is becoming more elevated in the debate on climate change, " said Jill Lawrence, a political columnist for AOL's PoliticsDaily.com.

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"Being Indonesian at the moment means being a member of an indecisive nation, one that cannot define what it wants, " says Mochtar Buchori, a political columnist and adviser to presidential aspirant Megawati Sukarnoputri--daughter of Sukarno the Mouthpiece.

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