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Palestinians Fake Cancer To Flee Blockaded Gaza

AP | DIAA HADID | Posted 12.10.2009 | World

Read More: Settlements in Palestine, Palestine, Israel Palestine Conflict, Gaza Blockade, Gaza, Israel-Palestine, Israel, Erez, World News

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — A healthy man in blockaded Gaza faked cancer, hoping the deadly disease would be his ticket out of the territory that ha...

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Egypt Working On Wall Across Gaza Border To Stem Smuggling

AP | SARAH EL DEEB | Posted 12.10.2009 | World

Read More: Palestine, Gaza, Egypt, Israel Gaza Tunnels, Israel-Palestine, Israel, Gaza Tunnels, Yehiye Moussa, World News

CAIRO — Egypt is installing a series of metal sheets some 60 feet deep along its border with Gaza in an attempt to block tunnels that serve as a...

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A Portrait of Nonviolent Resistance in One Palestinian Village

Ellen Cantarow | Posted 12.08.2009 | World

Read More: Palestine, Palestinian Territories, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Nonviolence, Palestinians Non-Violence, Israel-Palestine, World News

Much is heard of violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but the story of the determined, long-term nonviolent resistance of many Palestinian villagers to the loss of their lands, striking as it may be, is seldom told.

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EU: Jerusalem Should Be Joint Capital

AP | SLOBODAN LEKIC | Posted 12.08.2009 | World

Read More: European Union, Palestine, Israel, Jerusalem, Eu, EU Jerusalem Plan, World News

BRUSSELS — European Union foreign ministers urged Israel and the Palestinians on Tuesday to make Jerusalem their shared capital, prompting a swi...

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PM makes final push to foil Swedish initiative to divide Jerusalem

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 12.05.2009 | Home

Read More: Brussels, Jerusalem-Israel, Israel, Palestinian Authority, Sweden, Palestine, Home News

Israel and the Palestinian Authority are each lobbying European Union foreign ministers to adopt its respective position on Sweden's initiative...

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Cooperative Israeli-Palestinian Project Plants Strawberry Fields (VIDEO)

Posted 12.02.2009 | World

Read More: Palestine, Strawberry Field, Israeli-Palestinian Cooperation, Peres Center for Peace, Oren Blonder, Qalqilyah, Israeli Farming, Israel, Israel Palestine Strawberry Field, Lt. Gal Levant, World News

Qalqilyah is an unlikely site for Israeli-Palestinian cooperation -- a Palestinian town in the West Bank, it's home to the wall Israel built to keep o...

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Report from Kabul Hill

Room Eight | Room Eight | Posted 12.02.2009 | Home

Read More: Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel, Palestine, Home News

GATEMOUTH (4/14/06): In the end, I want a member of Congress who's wrestled with, and lost sleep over the question of under which circumstances the de...

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EU Draft Document On Division Of Jerusalem

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 12.01.2009 | World

Read More: Palestine, European Union, Jerusalem, Israel, Jerusalem-Israel, Israel, Sweden, World News

The current holder of the rotating European Union presidency, Sweden, has put together a draft document calling for the division of Jerusalem between ...

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George Mitchell's Lessons for Darfur

John Prendergast | Posted 12.01.2009 | World

Read More: Palestine, Darfur, George MItchell, Middle East, Enough Project, Isreali-Palestinian Crisis, Israel, Peace, John Prendergast, Barack Obama, World News

In my own experience working on various African peace processes, protracted negotiations are required for breakthroughs; breakthroughs almost never precede protracted negotiations.

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EU to recognize East Jerusalem as capital of Palestinian state

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 12.01.2009 | Home

Read More: Jerusalem-Israel, Israel, Palestine, Home News

European Union foreign ministers are expected to officially call next week for the division of Jerusalem, to serve as the capitals of both Isra...

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EU foreign ministers likely to call for division of Jerusalem

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 11.30.2009 | Home

Read More: Jerusalem-Israel, Israel, Palestine, Home News

European Union foreign ministers are expected to officially call next week for the division of Jerusalem, to serve as the capitals of both Isra...

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Report: Security beefed up at Gaza-Egypt border ahead of Shalit transfer

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 11.28.2009 | Home

Read More: Gaza, Egypt, Palestine, Home News

Voice of Palestine radio quoted Egyptian sources on Saturday as saying that in an unusual move, security around the Rafah border crossing betwe...

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Palestine After Abbas

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 11.26.2009 | World

Read More: Oslo Accords, Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, Marwan Barghouti, West Bank, Plo, Israel, Pa, Naser Qudwa, World News

The coming months will reveal whether we are, indeed, witnessing the dawn of the post-Oslo era in Palestinian politics, and whether a new leader will be required to revive the Palestinian cause.

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An American Arab Thanksgiving

Ray Hanania | Posted 11.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Islam, Middle East Foods, Lamb and Rice, Ethnicity, Thanksgiving, Palestine, American Culture, Melting Pot, Jewish, Palestinians, Arab Americans, Race Relations, Muslims, Recipes, Israel, Racism, World War II, Mediterranean, Meals, Bigotry, Grape Leaves, Dinner, Living News

Food has a special place in our hearts as Arabs, so Thanksgiving was the American holiday we most loved. Food symbolizes the essence of freedom, the ability to feed your family without fear.

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Selling Out in Congress

Adam Shapiro | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gaza, Goldstone Report, Palestine, Israel, Tom Perriello, Congress, Richard Goldstone Gaza, Palestinians, Perriello, Politics News

My old friend Tom Perriello, I am afraid, has become like so many of his colleagues, a mere tool of a hard-right AIPAC agenda that has no business dictating American policy, as it did with the Goldstone resolution.

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Tony Blair's Cautionary Tale For Obama

William Bradley | Posted 11.24.2009 | World

Read More: Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, George W. Bush, Iraq, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Torture, Al Qaeda, Israel, Palestine, Cia, Pakistan, European Union, Cool Britannia, Britain, Robert Harris, Roman Polanski, World News

Under Blair, Britain "modernized" as "Cool Britannia," and indicators on the economy, the environment, and crime improved. Then came Iraq, the war too far.

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The Wages of Fear: Alibis and Lies

Joan Z. Shore | Posted 11.24.2009 | World

Read More: France, Islam, Muslim, Bush Administration, Hasan, Palestine, Fort Hood Shootings, Media, World News

Had it been a Christian or a Jew who slaughtered thirteen people in one mad frenzy, I doubt there would have been much psycho-analysis of the murderer and his motives. It was a ghastly criminal act, period.

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Re-Energizing The Two-State Solution To Israeli-Palestinian Peace

Ray Hanania | Posted 11.20.2009 | World

Read More: Two States, West Bank, Israelis, One-State Solution, President Mahmoud Abbas, Jerusalem, East Jerusalem, Palestine, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Gaza Strip, Peace, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israel-Palestine, Hamas, End of Violence in Israel, Israel Palestine Compromise, Two-State Solution, World News

Yes, I'm running for President of Palestine in the next election. No, I don't expect to win. My goal is to get the real leaders to do their jobs and stop putzing around.

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Peace In Arabic

David Suissa | Posted 11.20.2009 | World

Read More: Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Jews, Arabs, Khaled Abu Toameh, Ramallah, Islamic Radicalism, Palestinians, Stand With Us, Israel, Barack Obama, Israeli Arabs, World News

His words didn't smell like propaganda or activism. He spoke for moderate Palestinians like himself, and he spoke from his heart, not from talking points.

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Accomplishing Palestinian Statehood Might Have to Be Unilateral

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 11.20.2009 | World

Read More: Palestine, Israel, President Abbas, Benjamin Netanyahu, Palestinian State, Palestinian, Israeli, World News

If reaching an independent Palestinian state is in the national interest of the United States, as President Obama has said, then it would be ill advised to deny that inevitability to Palestinians.

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Palestine 1001 Nights

Jamal Dajani | Posted 11.20.2009 | World

Read More: Oslo Accords, Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Mahmoud Abbas, Middle East, Road Map, Gilo, Jamal Dajani, Benjamin Netanyahu, Mofaz, Israel, Israeli Settlement, Barack Obama, World News

If Hamas is no longer Hamas, and the Palestinian Authority is no longer an authority, what options do the Palestinians have?

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Middle East Small Talks To Focus On Getting Israel, Palestine To Discuss Weather

The Onion | The Onion | Posted 11.18.2009 | Home

Read More: London-United Kingdom, United Kingdom, Palestine, Israel, Home News

LONDON—According to State Department officials, the violently clashing peoples of Israel and Palestine have agreed to resume small talks......

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Palestinians Seek EU Support For Independent State

AP | MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH | Posted 11.17.2009 | World

Read More: Palestine, Israel-Palestine, United Nations Security Council, European Union, Palestinians, Israel, Eu, World News

RAMALLAH, West Bank — The Palestinians asked the European Union on Monday to back their plan to have the U.N. Security Council recognize an inde...

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U.S.: Best way to achieve a viable Palestine is talks

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 11.16.2009 | Home

Read More: Palestine, Home News

The United States on Monday reaffirmed its support for the resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through negotiations, in its first official ...

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The Challenge of Arab Unemployment -- An Issue We Must Not Ignore!

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 11.16.2009 | World

Read More: Egypt, Syria, Senior Citizen Hegemons, Qatif Saudi Arabia, Saeed Al Khabaz, Education for Employment, News, Arab Employment, United Nations, Employment, Sheikh Hamad Bin-Khalifa-Al-Thani, Simmons College, Lebanon, World, Arab Youth Supercomputer 2010, United Arab Emirates, Arab Youth, Arab Unemployment, Investigation and Prosecution Commission, Arabs, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Google, Violence, Ilo, Jobs, Arab Youths, Manpower, Palestine, Yemen, Crime, United States, MENA Region, Prince Sultan University, Morrocco, Cisco, Qatif Youth Achievement Award, Uae, Prince Salman Education for Employment Initiative, Arab, Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al-Missned, Gallup, Al Hadi Medical Clinic, International Labor Organization, Us Unemployment, Mena, Ron Bruder, Terrorism, Sheikha Mozah, Google Economy, Ipc, Efe, Silatech, Qatif, Riyad, World News

While the problem of unemployment in the Arab world seems insurmountable, there are a number of initiatives being implemented and proffered in the region to begin to put a dent in the problem.

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