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Lessons From the Palestinian Goldstone-Gate

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 10.08.2009 | World

Read More: Palestinian Authority, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, War Crimes, Gaza, Richard Goldstone, Abbas, Palestine, President Abbas, Plo, Obama, World News
Daoud Kuttab

The decision to postpone discussions on the Goldstone report have been a political nightmare for Palestinian leadership. Do they need a lesson in leadership or just PR?

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How To Kill Your Friends, Big and Small

Amjad Atallah | Posted 10.02.2009 | World

Read More: Iran, Human Rights Council, War, Richard Goldstone, Russia, Fatah, Israel, Plo, Political Prisoners, Hamas, Gilad Shalit, Al Qaeda, World News
Amjad Atallah

Palestinians today woke up to two news stories -- one that made them celebrate and one that made them cringe. Unfortunately, the U.S. was not involved in the celebratory story.

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Fayyad's Brilliant Two-Year Plan for Palestinian Statehood

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 09.27.2009 | World

Read More: London Times, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israel, Plo, Obama, Fatah, Salam-Fayyad, Us, Palestinian State in Two Years, Palestinian Territories, Salam Fayyad, Salam Fayyad Palestinian State Plan, World News
Daoud Kuttab

The Palestinian Prime Minister told the press that he wanted the American president arriving in Palestine on Airforce One, to an international airport, and not just a small airstrip.

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Fatah Moves Closer To Becoming A Political Party

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 09.12.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Marwan Barghouti, Pakistan, Ehud Barak, Palestinians, Fatah, Hamas, Israel, Plo, Israeli Ocupation, World News
Daoud Kuttab

The Fatah movement, the key Palestinian guerrilla movement within the Palestine Liberation Organization moved one step closer to becoming a political party.

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New Guard Replaces Old in Fatah

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 09.06.2009 | World

Read More: Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Mahmoud Abbas, Plo, Fateh, Fatah, Cartoon, Political Cartoons, Alquds, World News
Daoud Kuttab

As long as Fatah had leaders in various Arab countries, they were susceptible to pressures from those hosts. That has all but disappeared with the majority of its leadership now based inside Palestine.

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Hamas Again Accepts a Palestinian State on The 1967 Lines

Amjad Atallah | Posted 08.31.2009 | World

Read More: Bassem Khoury, Fatah, Khaled Meshal, Israel, Palestine, Plo, Hamas, Wall Street Journal, Shtayyeh, World News
Amjad Atallah

If Hamas Chief Meshaal is truly speaking on behalf of all of Hamas, then he is endorsing Obama's efforts to quickly negotiate an end to the conflict and is offering "cooperation" in that regard.

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Who Speaks for Palestine?

Jamal Dajani | Posted 08.31.2009 | World

Read More: Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Farouq El Qadoumi, Mahmoud Abbas, Plo, Fateh, Fatah, Benjamin Netanyahu, Hamas, Israel, Midddle East, World News
Jamal Dajani

Fateh, the largest faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization, will meet next week in an atmosphere mired with internal divisions, charges of corruption, and tales of espionage and betrayal fit for a John Le Carré novel.

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In Sri Lanka: Explaining the Tamil Tigers

Jim Luce | Posted 07.06.2009 | World

Read More: K.P., Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Bank of Tamileelam, Ban Ki-Moo, Abu Sayyaf Group, Sri Lanka, Palestine Liberation Organization, London, Velupillai Prabhakaran, Sri Lankan Air Force, Suicide Bombing, “Little Brown Brothers”, Racism, Drug Trafficking, The U.N. Security Council, Ethnic Cleansing, New York, Geneva, Jemaah Islamiya, Colombo, P.L.O., India, Times of India, Fight Against Terrorism, Gunrunning., LTTE Sea Tigers, Empty Nest Syndrome, Political Assassination, Tamil Tigers, Human Smuggling, Tamil Diaspora, Ltte, Teddy Roosevelt, Toronto, Switzerland, Washington, Jaffna, Osama Bin Laden, Jane's Information Group, United Nations, Norway, Tamil Nadu, Milf, Black Tigers, Guantanamo Bay, Child Soldiers, Refugee Status, Terrorist Organization, European Union, F.B.I., Amin Awad, Al-Qaeda, Bin Laden, Abu Ghraib, Tsunami, Rajiv Gandhi, Pol Pot, Oslo, Sri Lankan Parliament, Afghanistan, Human Rights Abuse, Sea Piracy, Moro Islamic Liberation Front, Asg, Tamil-Canadians, World News
Jim Luce

The Sri Lankan government has battled the Tamil Tigers on two fronts for almost three decades: on the battlefield and in the arena of world opinion. No one thought they could win militarily, but they did.

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Democrites: Are Congressional Democrats Siding With Netanyahu Against President Obama?

Sam Sedaei | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mahmoud Abbas, Anthony Weiner, Shelley Berkley, Gaza, West Bank, Hillary Clinton, Hamas, Joe Biden, Gary Ackerman, Israel, Plo, Barack Obama, Politics News
Sam Sedaei

While President Obama understands the importance of taking a tougher stance on Israel to fit the new circumstances, some Democrats in Congress do not.

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Yasser Arafat Poisoned? Arab Doctors To Probe

AP | SHAFIKA MATTAR | Posted 05.02.2009 | World

Read More: Palestinian Territories, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Yasser Arafat Poisoned, Yasser Arafat Death, Yasser Arafat Poison, Yasser Arafat, Plo, World News

AMMAN, Jordan — Nearly five years after Yasser Arafat died from what French doctors called a massive brain hemorrhage, Arab doctors will meet in...

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Bush's Final Gift: Gaza

Eric Margolis | Posted 02.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Egypt, Syria, George Bush, Muslim Brotherhood, United Nations Iran, Gaza, Lebanese Fighting, Obama Secretary of State, President Obama, 9/11 Anniversary, George W. Bush, Fatah, 9/11 Commission, Hezbollah, Arab-Israeli Peace, Secretary of State Clinton, Concentration Camp, Israel Lebanon War, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Dick Cheney, Palestine Liberation Organization, President Bush Economic Crisis, Iran, Hamas Gaza, Ehud Olmert Scandal, West Bank Israel, Condoleezza Rice, United Nations, Mumbai Terrorism, Dick Cheney Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Mubarak Gaza, Bush, Terrorist, United Nations Security Council, Plo, Palestine, United States, Hamas Truce, Israeli Airstrikes, Israel Hamas Truce, Osama Bin Laden, Lebanese Government, Mumbai Attacks, Ehud Olmert Rice, Clinton Secretary of State, Warsaw, Sabra, Politics News
Eric Margolis

Just when we thought it was impossible for the calamitous George Bush and Svengali Dick Cheney to do any more damage to the world or to America's inte...

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As Gaza Rages, The West Bank Takes Quiet Steps Forward

GlobalPost.com | Matt Beynon Rees | Posted 02.12.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Globalpost, Gaza, West Bank, Fatah, Hamas, The Third Way, Plo, Jenin, Barack Obama, Salam Fayyad, Michael Oren, Israel, Obama Israel, World News

JERUSALEM -- The gleaming new governor's office for the Salfit district of the northern West Bank is typical of Palestinian government buildings. ...

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Why Israel Was Right to Invade Gaza

Andy Ostroy | Posted 02.06.2009 | World

Read More: Plo, Israel, Gaza, Ehud Olmert, Arabs, Barack Obama, Palestinians, Mahmoud Abbas, Israel Ground Invasion, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestinian Territories, Fatah, Hamas, Ehud Barak, Israeli Airstrikes, Gaza City, Israel Gaza Airstrikes, Israel Airstrikes, Israel Gaza Operation, Why Did Israel Invade Gaza, Why Did Israel Invade Gaza?, World News
Andy Ostroy

How should Israel attempt to protect its people, long-term, if it merely acts defensively in a tit-for-tat manner? That would be a horribly naïve response given its history.

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Turkey Could be Major Political Loser in Israel-Gaza Conflict

Harut Sassounian | Posted 02.06.2009 | World

Read More: Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Turkey, Washington, Gul Shimon Peres, Istanbul, Plo, Hamas, Turkish Terrorists, U.N. Security Council, Armenian Genocide, Jewish Americans, Foreign Policy, Erdogan, Armenia, Gaza, Synagogue Bombing, U.S. Congress, Saudi Arabia, Armenian Genocide Bill, Israel, Denial Genocide, Ankara, World News
Harut Sassounian

It is high time that both Arabs and Israelis realize that Turkey is a friend of neither side. When a ceasefire is finally established in Gaza, Turkey could end up as a major political loser.

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US Foreign Policy in the Middle East: Thoughts for Change

Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and B. Wayne Quist | Posted 02.02.2009 | World

Read More: Wahabi Salafism, Hizballah, Middle East Oil, Saudi Arabia Oil, Saudi Arabia, Middle East Politics, Oil, US Foreign Policy, Middle East, Plo, Hamas, Al-Qaeda, American Center for Democracy, North Korea, World News
Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and B. Wayne Quist

The Saudis are increasingly turning to Russia and China as their new oil and gas partners, dumping longstanding relationships with once-favored American oil companies.

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Israel Arrests 6 in Tel Aviv Protesting Gaza Operation

Haaretz.com | Posted 01.29.2009 | World

Read More: Tel Aviv, Israel Attacks Gaza, Israel Arrests 6, Reaction to Gaza Air Strikes, Israel Gaza, Gaza Strip, Plo, Gaza Israel, Gaza Operation, Protests Against Gaza Operation, Israel Airstrikes, Egyptian Embassy, 1,000 Israelis in Tel Aviv, Protests Gaza Attack, World News

Six protesters were arrested Monday at an unauthorized demonstration against Israel's aerial campaign in the Gaza Strip, held outside the Egyptian Emb...

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