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Israel-Hamas Gaza Truce Goes Into Effect

AP | LAURIE COPANS and IBRAHIM BARZAK | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics

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SDEROT, Israel — Raz Elraz, for the first time, will be able to take his 14-month-old son to a playground in this rocket-scarred Israeli town. A...

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Hamas Signals Compromise, But No One's Watching

Gershom Gorenberg | Posted 04.10.2008 | Politics

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Gershom Gorenberg

Last week, the head of Hamas's Political Bureau gave an interview to a Palestinian paper that should have been read as an act of public diplomacy. In the West, though, it has hardly been read at all.

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Report: Bush Backed Covert Coup Attempt Against Hamas

Vanity Fair | David Rose | Posted 03.03.2008 | Politics

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After failing to anticipate Hamas's victory over Fatah in the 2006 Palestinian election, the White House cooked up yet another scandalously covert and...

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Diminishing Hamas

Alon Ben-Meir | Posted 02.20.2008 | Politics

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Alon Ben-Meir

Israel should not fall into Hamas' trap and allow the Israeli public's inflamed emotions to overrun a well reasoned and carefully executed course of action.

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Saving Sderot

MJ Rosenberg | Posted 02.15.2008 | Politics

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MJ Rosenberg

The question has to arise. Why is it acceptable to enter into a cease-fire with Hezbollah but not Hamas? If anything, Hezbollah is more militant than Hamas.

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