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The Palestinians at a Pivotal Crossroads

Alon Ben-Meir | Posted 06.12.2009 | World

Read More: Khaled Meshal, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Fatah, Obama Middle East Policy, Hamas, Two-State Solution, Israeli Palestinian Negotiations, World News
Alon Ben-Meir

President Obama's push for a solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict has given the Palestinians an historic opportunity to end their disastrous state of affairs.

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Weekly Foreign Affairs Roundup

Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet | Posted 06.12.2009 | World

Read More: Syria, Netanyahu, Palestinian, Pakistan, Fatah, Nwfp, Lebanon, Hariri, Iraq, Hamas, Hezbollah, China, Iran, Ahmadinejad, Mcchrystal, Security Council, Russia, Mitchell, Taliban, Israel, Afghanistan, Mousavi, North Korea, Rafsanjani, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, World News
Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet

The Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs : What the Lebanese Election Results Mean Facts: Saad Hariri, the son of assassinated Prime Minister Rafiq H...

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Hamas, Fatah Battle Kills 6, Bloodiest Factional Violence In 2 Years

AP | ALI DARAGHMEH | Posted 05.31.2009 | World

Read More: Palestinian Territories, West Bank, Hamas Fatah, Qalqiliya, Fatah Hamas, Fatah, Hamas, Israel, World News

QALQILIYA, West Bank — Forces loyal to the moderate Palestinian president stormed a Hamas hideout in the West Bank and set off a fierce gunbattl...

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Abdul Majid Dudeen Killed By Israeli Forces

Huffington Post | Posted 05.28.2009 | World

Read More: Abdul Majid Dudeen, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Gaza, West Bank, Foreign Affairs, Fatah, Hamas, Israel, Idf, Israeli Defense Force, Advocacy, World News

Abdul Majid Dudeen, the leader of Hamas' Ezzidin Al-Qassam Brigades, has been shot and killed by Israeli forces in Skak, a town just west of Hebron in...

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Hamas, Fatah Power Struggle Killing Patients

Inter Press Service | Posted 05.21.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Gaza, Fatah, Hamas, Foreign Affairs, Inter Press Service, Israel, World News

By Mel Frykberg GAZA CITY, May 21 (IPS) - The lives of hundreds of critically ill Gazans continue to be jeopardised by the power struggle between ...

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'Obama Plan' For Mideast Causing Much Regional Anticipation

Christian Science Monitor | Posted 05.20.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Peace in the Middle East, Obama Egypt, Foreign Affairs, Middle East, Fatah, Benjamin Netanyahu, Hamas, Israel, Obama Plan, Binyamin Netanyahu, Advocacy, World News

The Middle East has been abuzz in anticipation of the peace plan US President Barack Obama is expected to unveil in Cairo next month. ...

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New Hamas-Free Palestinian Government Sworn In

AP | MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH | Posted 05.19.2009 | World

Read More: Israel, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestine, Palestinian Territories, Palestinian Authority, Fatah, Salam Fayyad, Mahmoud Abbas, Hamas, West Bank, Gaza, World News

RAMALLAH, West Bank — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday swore in a new government comprised mainly of members of his Fatah Party, b...

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Why the Strings of Peace Were Silenced

Karin Kloosterman | Posted 05.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fatah, Palestinian Authority, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israel, Hamas, Middle East, Peace, Politics News
Karin Kloosterman

Scanning through the weekend news looking for ideas, a New York Times story caught my eye. Beyond all the expected political rhetoric, Palestinian kid...

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"Hezbollah Planned Huge Terror Attacks In Tel Aviv": Egyptian Newspaper

Haaretz | Posted 04.16.2009 | World

Read More: Tel Aviv, Egypt, Foreign Affairs, Hezbollah, Fatah, Hamas, Israel, Israel Lebanon War, Israel Lebanon, Almasry Alyoum, Egyptian Newspaper, Advocacy, World News

Hezbollah operatives caught in Egypt planned to carry out massive terror attacks in Tel Aviv, the Egyptian newspaper Almasry Alyoum reported Thursday....

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Hamas, Fatah Reach 'Historic Accord' To Form Palestinian 'Confederation': AKI

Adnkronos International | Posted 04.14.2009 | World

Read More: Palestinian Authority, Palestinian Territories, Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestinian Accord, Hamas Fatah, Foreign Affairs, Palestinian, Fatah, Hamas, Hamas Fatah Historic Accord, Hamas Fatah Reconciliation, Advocacy, World News

Rival Palestinian factions Fatah and the Islamist Hamas movement have reached an historic accord for the creation of a new "confederation" with two go...

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The Story You Aren't Hearing About Israel

Mort Zuckerman | Posted 04.13.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestinians, Fatah, Two-State Solution, Hamas, Israel, World News
Mort Zuckerman

A Palestinian state cannot be created by terrorism. It can be created through the reformation of political and economic institutions so that they reflect democracy, market economics, and real actions to confront terrorism.

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Most US Jews Open To Palestinian Unity Gov't That Includes Hamas: Poll

Inter Press Service | Jim Lobe | Posted 03.25.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestine, Jews, Foreign Affairs, Fatah, Hamas, Us Jews, J Street, J-Street, Palestinian Unity Talks, Israel, American Jews, Advocacy, Religion, Inter Press Service, World News

WASHINGTON, Mar 25 (IPS) - Contrary to the views of the likely incoming right-wing government of Israel, most U.S. Jews favour peace negotiations wi...

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Kamal Maji Killed In Explosion At Lebanon Refugee Camp: Officials

Al Jazeera | Posted 03.23.2009 | World

Read More: Palestine, Lebanon Palestinians, Kamel Madhed, West Bank, Lebanon, Palestinian, Palestinian Refugees, Fatah, Palestinians Lebanon, Refugee Camp Lebanon, Palestinian Refugee Camp Explosion, Kamel Maji, Fatah Leader Killed, World News

At least four people, including a senior official from the Palestinian Fatah movement, have been killed in an explosion at a refugee camp in southern ...

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Israel on the Brink

Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 03.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Lieberman, Barak Obama, Ehud Barak, Hezbollah, Iran, Fatah, Two-State Solution, Israel, Hama, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Michael B. Laskoff

You learn the most about a person, an institution or a state by the ease with which it handles the most vulnerable, particularly when it can get away ...

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Far Right in Israel Sabotages Obama's Two-State Solution, But Possible Prisoner Release Offers Hope (Maybe)

Art Levine | Posted 03.16.2009 | World

Read More: Netanyahu, Fatah, Israel, Settlements, Obama, Hamas, Palestinians, The Daily Beast, Salameh Nematt, World News
Art Levine

The news that right-wing parties are forming a coalition likely dooms the prospects for Mideast peace any time soon.

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Weekly Foreign Affairs Roundup

Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet | Posted 03.13.2009 | World

Read More: Maritime Law, Naval Standoff, Brussels, US Troops, Israel Lobby, Pakistan, World Bank, Pakistan Protests, China, Chas Freeman, Iran, Nato, Economic Cooperation Organization Summit, Mauritania, Us, Zardari, Embassy, Morocco, Missle Launch, Fatah, Palestine, Hamas, Suicide Bombs, Satellite, Biden, Anbar, Ahmadinejad, Cairo, Sunni Insurgency, Afghanistan, Palestinian Unity Talks, Iraq, Prisoner Swap, Pullout, North Korea, Icbm, Fayyad, Foreign Affairs Roundup, Foreign Policy, World News
Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet

The Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: Pakistan: Yet Another Path to Failure Facts: Pakistan's government arrests hundreds of "dissidents" includi...

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Palestinian Factions Agree To Work Toward Unity Government

The Huffington Post | Catherine Lyons | Posted 02.26.2009 | World

Read More: Palestinian Territories, Mahmoud Abbas, West Bank, Reconciliation Talks, Middle East, Fatah, Palestine, Israel Gaza War, Hamas, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Palestinian Authority, World News

After almost two years of bloodshed, various Palestinian factions have agreed to come together and work toward a unified government, reports Al Jazeer...

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Fatah, Hamas Meet In Cairo Amid Hopes For Agreement On National Unity Government

Los Angeles Times | By Noha El-Hennawy | Posted 02.26.2009 | World

Read More: Egypt, Omar Sulieman, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, West Bank, Peace Talks, Mahmoud Zahar, Cairo, Palestinian Territories, Fatah, Palestine, Azzam Ahmed, Hamas, National Unity Government, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Middle East, World News

Reconciliation talks between Hamas, Fatah and smaller Palestinian factions began Thursday in Cairo amid hopes for an agreement on a national unity gov...

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Hamas, Fatah To Begin Talks On Closing Rift

AP | KARIN LAUB | Posted 02.24.2009 | World

Read More: Hamas, Fatah, Hamas Fatah, Gaza, West Bank, Gaza West Bank, Hamas Fatah Reconciliation, Israel Hamas, Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinians, Ahmed Qureia, Mussa Abu Marzuk, Omar Suleiman, Israel, World News

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — The Islamic militants of Hamas and the moderates of Fatah have never had more compelling reasons to repair the rift betw...

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Hamas Murder Campaign In Gaza Exposed: Human Rights Group

Huffington Post | Jessica Gusman | Posted 02.13.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Gaza Strip, Human Rights, Operation Cast Lead, Hamas Fatah, Gaza Hamas, Amnesty International, Fatah, Hamas, Israel, Israel Hamas, Israel Gaza Operation, Islamists, Hamas Murder Campaign in Gaza Exposed, World News

The terrorist organization Hamas has allegedly killed and tortured dozens of people accused of being "collaborators" with Israel, according to the Gua...

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Can Mitchell Succeed? Let Him Talk to Hamas

Robert Naiman | Posted 02.11.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Gaza, George MItchell, Israel, Palestine, Jimmy Carter, Fatah, Hamas, Northern Ireland Peace Process, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, World News
Robert Naiman

It is very likely that if the U.S. were to engage Hamas diplomatically, it would be much easier to achieve a peaceful political resolution of the Israel/Palestine conflict.

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Hamas negotiators stopped with suitcases of cash

AP | SARAH EL DEEB | Posted 02.05.2009 | World

Read More: Egypt, Palestinian Territories, Fatah, Peace Talks in Egypt, Mohammed Nasr, Palestine, Gaza Strip, Israel, Moussa Abo Marzouk, Hamas, Rafah Border Crossing, World News

CAIRO — Hamas negotiators left Egypt without a long-term cease-fire with Israel on Thursday _ but not before some members of the militant group'...

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Whoops! I Was Dead Wrong about Words and Deeds in the Middle East

James Heffernan | Posted 01.27.2009 | World

Read More: Gaza, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ehud Olmert, Middle East, George MItchell, Fatah, Israel, Hillary Clinton, Hamas, Barack Obama, World News
James Heffernan

Is an Israeli apology for what it has done to the Palestinians really more intolerable than more misery, more hatred, and more killing of civilians on both sides?

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Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Could Words Be The Answer?

International Herald Tribune | Scott Atran and Jeremy Ginges | Posted 01.26.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestine, Israel-Palestine Conflict, Gaza, Middle East, Israel-Palestine, Fatah, Hamas, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian, World News

As diplomats stitch together a cease-fire between Hamas and Israel, the most depressing feature of the conflict is the sense that future fighting is i...

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Israel: On the Right Side of History

Aaron Zelinsky | Posted 01.24.2009 | World

Read More: Syria, Supreme Court, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, United Arab List, Dorit Beinisch, Torture, Executive Orders, Jerusalem, Gaza, Rule of Law, Obama Executive Orders, Fatah, Barack Obama Israel, Lebanon, Hamas, The Basic Law, Civil Rights, Guantanamo Bay, Operation Cast Lead, Obama Inaugural Address, Voting Rights, Israel, Israeli Supreme Court, Israel Gaza, Jamal Zahalkeh, Kach, Balad, World News
Aaron Zelinsky

The Israeli Supreme Court defended the rights of Israel's two Arab parties, Balad and the United Arab List, to stand for election, overturning a vote by Israel's Central Election Committee.

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