The pro-engagement camp of Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia is now in tatters.
The entire board of directors of one pro-engagement organization, the Cuba Policy Group, resigned last week in protest.
They are eager to cultivate the Bush administration's newly positive, pro-engagement view of China, and do not want to be seen as obstructionists.
Today, in large part because of trade with China, both have done just that, publicly adopting pro-engagement policies that Washington rejected.
Most of the votes were already in the bag, but Benn's speech gave Labour's pro-engagement MPs moral permission to support David Cameron.
His pro-Arab and pro-engagement positions on Middle East politics led a domestic terrorist group, the Jewish Defense League, to target Issa in December , 2001
The Chinese government is acutely aware that a successful summit meeting next month could help bring President Bush firmly into the pro-engagement camp.
When his party's pro-engagement stance on North Korea is criticised as softness by conservatives, he is quick to bring up this background.
He derides the soft, pro-engagement approach favored by China and South Korea, but never fully explains why hopes for a peaceful evolution in the North are so misguided.
He has been urged in that direction by pro-engagement advisers like Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and by Mr. Bush's ambassador to China, and old friend, Clark T. Randt.
Under the circumstances, the regime and the pro-engagement crowd are paranoid over the likelihood of the removal of the principal Iranian opposition movement, the Mujahedeen Khalq, or MEK, from the State Department's Foreign Terrorist Organizations list.
