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19 hours ago ago from Asia Minor Front News
Israel/Palestine MKs Sign Deal to Leave Kadima as Split in Party Looms Marwan Barghouti Barred for Israel Prisoner Swap Hamas Says Needs Time to Study Israeli Prisoner Swap Reply Report: Hamas Agrees to Deport 123 Prisoners in Shalit Deal Israel Warns Nationals of al-Qaeda Abduction Threat in Africa Erakat: Peace Talks Can Restart if Israel ...
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11 hours ago ago from Chandler's Watch
Gaza Strip By Nidal al-Mughrabi-Reuters News Agency INTERVIEW Hamas armed wing says ready for new fight December 24, 2009 GAZA (Reuters) As an Israeli drone flew overhead, a masked Hamas spokesman said the Islamist group would not shirk from battle with Israel, which carried out a powerful Gaza offensive a year ago. We do not wish for war. We wish for calm and peace for our people, Abu Ubaida, spokesman for Hamas's armed wing, ...
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17 hours ago ago from OBAMAers Dot Com
Quote: By JOEL BRINKLEY - McClatchy-Tribune News Service WASHINGTON -- While Palestinian Christians in the West Bank celebrate Christmas in Bethlehem, Palestinians in Gaza, no matter their religious affiliation or political bent, are suffering in squalor and growing ignorance. Thousands are trying to flee. Gaza has never been a prosperous enclave; the 140-square-mile territory has always been a poor, dependent state. But for ...
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20 hours ago ago from TIME GOES BY
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Saul Friedman ( bio ) writes the twice-monthly Reflections column for Time Goes By in which he comments on news, politics and social issues from his perspective as one of the younger members of the greatest generation. His other column, Gray Matters, formerly published in Newsday , appears each Saturday. I’m not of the Christian faith, but I do have a Christmas story to tell. It takes place in the ...
Related contentInterviews with Mahmoud Abbas/Abu Mazen of Palestine
19 hours ago ago from Middle East Reality
Mahmoud Abbas gave an interview with Charles Levinson of the Wall Street Journal on December 20, and one with Ali El-Saleh and Nazer Majli of the Arab newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat on December 22. In both interviews he talks about his options, that he refuses to discuss further, if elections are not held. [Wall Street Journal]And if there are no elections, will you remain in power or will you resign? This is an important point. I said that I ...
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What Would Jesus Do in Gaza? Obama's Test
19 hours ago ago from Newsweek - Columns - Shadowland
Login Username: Password: SUBSCRIBE Subscribe to Newsweek and save up to 88% SPONSORED BY: Christopher Dickey What Would Jesus Do in Gaza? Obama talks about love while justifying wars, but in the Middle East, neither works. Dec 24, 2009 SPONSORED BY  Email To A Friend Please ...
Related contentBelgian-Israeli dual nationals sue Hamas
15 hours ago ago from U.S. News
Belgian-Israeli dual nationals sue Hamas BRUSSELS (AP) -- Five Belgians living in Israel filed a complaint here Thursday against the Hamas rulers of Gaza, saying militant rocket fire into Israel had violated their human rights. Belgian courts let citizens living anywhere in the world request criminal prosecutions for violations of their human rights. In 1993 Belgium began allowing war-crimes cases to be filed by people in any country ...
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17 hours ago ago from U.S. News
Hamas: Response to Israel count-offer by next week DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) -- A senior Hamas official says the group will respond by next week to Israel's latest counteroffer on swapping Palestinian prisoners for a captured Israeli soldier. The Damascus-based official, Moussa Abu Marzouk, says the militant group is currently studying Israel's offer and will deliver its answer "next week at the latest." Abu Marzouk, deputy head of Hamas' ...
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12 hours ago ago from BBC
Advertisement Patriarch arrives in Bethlehem Thousands of Christian pilgrims have gathered in Bethlehem, to celebrate Christmas in the place where the Bible says Jesus Christ was born. Festivities began with a traditional boy scout band before a midnight mass celebration in St Catherine's Church, next to the Church of the Nativity. The top Roman Catholic cleric in the Holy Land led the annual procession from Jerusalem to Bethlehem. ...
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8 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
From an objective point of view, President Obama made the logical decision to focus on settlements as a first step in bringing Israelis and Palestinians to the table. Settlements are not popular among Israelis. There is no issue on which Israel and the United States have disagreed for so long. However, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not only an objective conflict about borders and economic development. At the deepest level, this ...
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