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Obama's "Dangerous" Mideast Analysis

Eric Trager | Posted 11.27.2009 | World

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Eric Trager

Last week during a press conference in Beijing, President Barack Obama endorsed one of the most propagandized of pop theories regarding the Israeli-Pa...

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Hamas Officials Caught Smuggling $850,000 Stuffed In Candy Tins Into Gaza

AP | ASHRAF SWEILAM | Posted 04.17.2009 | World

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CAIRO — Two Hamas officials returning from Egypt were caught trying to cross the Gaza border Tuesday with nearly $850,000 stuffed into candy tin...

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Diary From an Oxfam Aid Worker -- Civilians in the Midst of War

Louis Belanger | Posted 03.07.2009 | World

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Louis Belanger

Left wing Israeli people told me they didn't like what was happening to civilians in Gaza. They said they could hear the explosions and feel the ground shake.

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Hamas Vows To Rearm

Jerusalem Post | JPOST.COM STAFF | Posted 02.19.2009 | World

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A day after Hamas announced a truce with Israel, a spokesman for Izzadin Kassam, the group's military wing, stressed that Hamas will continue to rearm...

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UN Chief, Ban Ki-Moon, Heads To Mideast

AP | EDITH M. LEDERER | Posted 02.13.2009 | World

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UNITED NATIONS — Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon heads to the Mideast on Tuesday to step up diplomatic efforts to get Israel and Hamas to adhere t...

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Israeli Forces Enter Gaza City Neighborhood

AP | IBRAHIM BARZAK and CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA | Posted 02.13.2009 | World

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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Terrified residents ran for cover Tuesday in a densely populated neighborhood of Gaza City as Israeli troops backed by t...

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Israel Rejected Hamas Ceasefire Offer In December

Inter Press Service | Gareth Porter | Posted 02.09.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON, Jan 9 (IPS) - Contrary to Israel's argument that it was forced to launch its air and ground offensive against Gaza in order to stop the ...

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Gaza: Truce Without Hope

Richard Silverstein | Posted 06.28.2008 | Politics

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Richard Silverstein

Some Israeli officials have suggested that the purpose of the ceasefire is to give legitimacy to a future military offensive, so that Israeli leaders could claim they had exhausted all other possibilities first.

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