11 days ago

Come on, guys: The Arab daily Al-Hayat on Tuesday quoted a senior Hamas official as saying that United States President-elect Barack Obama's advisors met with members of the Palestinian militant group before the U.S. presidential election. Ahmed Yusuf, a political advisor to Hamas' Gaza leader Ismai ...

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11 days ago by flor

On Monday, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak decided that Israel would resume minimal fuel shipments to Gaza to power its electricity plant. Israel ceased shipments last week following rocket fire and a gun battle between the Israeli Defense Force and Hamas fighters. Gaza has only one power plant, ...

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12 days ago

Fatah-Hamas reunification is off again this afternoon, although wait a few hours and they'll go back to this. There's no real fundamental holdup: Hamas is officially at war with Israel, the PLO is officially at war with Israel. This is just Hamas trying to figure out whether they can get more throug ...

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12 days ago by Bloodthirsty Liberal

You can keep your Hope— but some things will never Change: A Saudi diplomat denied in remarks published on Friday that Riyadh had invited Israel to a UN inter-faith meeting in New York next week, saying the invitation had come from the United Nations. “The president of the UN General Assembly addres ...

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13 days ago

How gracious of them: Speaking from his refuge in the Syrian capital Damascus, Khaled Meshaal gave his reaction to Mr Obama's election. "... he should know he has duties to the United States and in the whole world and in hotspots especially in the Middle East... Yes we are ready for dialogue with Pr ...

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13 days ago by mrvastola

For a little foreshadowing into future Global II content, here is an article from Al-Jazeera English on what’s been going on involving the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. What course do you think the new administration should take? Reply with your answer.

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14 days ago by Kashmiri Nomad

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14 days ago by Charles

A story like this gets to me because it demonstrates how Israel is getting away with murder, literally. And with American support. As Obama is preparing to enter office, the fate of Palestinians will not be any much better. This has been explained in my previous posting, ‘Are Palestinians part of Ob ...

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14 days ago by msrb

In the Public Interest Wed 11/5/2008 by Ralph Nader Dear Senator Obama: In your nearly two-year presidential campaign, the words “hope and change,” “change and hope” have been your trademark declarations. Yet there is an asymmetry between those objectives and your political character that succumbs t ...

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14 days ago by Boulos al-Thurayya

Israeli Television, Chanel 10, showed on Thursday a video footage taken by Israeli soldiers filming themselves humiliating a bound and blindfolded Palestinian man at a military roadblock in the occupied West Bank, Israeli online daily, Haaretz, reported. Stills captured from the video published by H ...

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