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Israel briefly eases Gaza blockade
Israeli and Palestinian officials said Monday that Israel has briefly eased its tight blockade on the Gaza Strip to allow the shipment of cattle for a major Muslim holiday. Comment?
Beautiful memorials to carnage, British graveyards are a global reminder of war's cost
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It is the British empire of the dead. Scattered across 150 countries and managed from a modest office building near London's Heathrow Airport, a global patchwork of graveyards constitutes a beautiful memorial to the ugliest carnage: the 1.7 million fighting men and women who died for Britain and its dominions in the world wars of the last century. Comment?
Israeli lawmaker unveils peace plan with Hamas
JERUSALEM: A senior opposition leader in Israel unveiled a peace plan yesterday that held out the possibility of negotiations with Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist group in control of the Gaza Strip. 1 comment
Hamas sets terms for ceasefire with Israel
Hamas set out its conditions on Wednesday for a ceasefire with Israel, calling for an end to all acts of Israeli "aggression" in the Gaza Strip and West Bank and the reopening of Gaza border crossings. Comment?
Israel steps up military incursions into Gaza
JERUSALEM a ' In the most serious Israeli-Palestinian fighting in several months, Israeli troops killed at least eight Hamas gunmen in the Gaza Strip on Thursday. Comment?
How the "most moral army in the world" wages war on students
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If there's one thing the Israelis are good at it's making war on women and children. Comment?
Jewish PM expected to discuss Abbas threat in Washington
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Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has gone to Washington to discuss the crisis in the peace process, brought about by the threat by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to step down because of Israel's refusal to freeze all settlement expansion. Comment?
The Holy Land: Frontlines of Terror
On almost a nightly basis, news outlets across the world report on a tiny strip of land in the Middle East. Comment?
1 dead, 1 injured in western North Carolina fire
One person died and another was injured in a fire at a retirement community in western North Carolina. Comment?
Israeli MP floats idea of negotiations with Hamas
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: A senior opposition leader in Israel unveiled a peace plan on Sunday that held out the possibility of negotiations with Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist group in control of the Gaza Strip. Comment?
Abbas' resignation threat casts dark cloud over Palestine
It's certainly possible. Mahmoud Abbas always intended to serve as Palestinian president for a relatively short period of time and then pass the torch to the next generation. Comment?
Everyday Dirt & Other True Stories of Not Going to Gaza
Southern Oregon's Kate Gould is currently in the Middle East with the "Olive Harvest Delegation" a project of Interfaith Peace-Builders. While on her journey Kate shares words of reflection... Interfaith Peace-Builders believes in the power of eye-witness experience and transformation. Comment?
Dr. Norman Finkelstein, an American Jewish Princeton University graduate who spent decades researching the Israeli-Palestinian impasse, was to answer this question in a cross-Canada tour organized by Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East and our very own Waterloo Students for Palestinian Rights . Comment?
Copy of Letter to Chairman Berman and Ranking Member Ros-Lehtinen from Judge Goldstone regarding HR 867 A A October 29, 2009A Dear Chairman Berman and Ranking Member Ros-Lehtinen,A It has come to my attention that a resolution has been introduced in the United States House of Representatives regarding the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the ... Comment?
Israeli lawmaker floats idea of talks with Hamas
A senior opposition leader in Israel unveiled a peace plan Sunday that held out the possibility of negotiations with Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist group in control of the Gaza Strip. Comment?
Netanyahu Heads to US Amid Crisis in Peace Process
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Israel's leader is heading to the United States, but trouble is brewing back home with the Palestinians. Comment?
LIVESHOTS: Netanyahu Needs a Friend
As of this writing, 3:38 PM Jerusalem time, officials in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahua s office are unable to say whether US President Barack Obama will snub Israela s leader when he gets to the US.A That is primarily because the Prime Minister and his top aides are on the plane en route to the States. Comment?
Israel pledges to press on with Gaza offensive
Israel vowed on Sunday to press on with a Gaza offensive and curb rocket strikes, threatening even stronger action despite U.N. condemnation of assaults that have killed more than 100 Palestinians, many of them civilians. Comment?
Report says 32 children killed in Gaza tunnels in past 3 years
A report Saturday showed that 32 Palestinian children have been killed while working in smuggling tunnels under the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt in past three years. Comment?
Gaza children traumatized ten months after Israel's war on Gaza
It is still hard for Nada Joma'a, a 14-year-old girl from the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in northern Gaza City, to forget the time when an Israeli missile destroyed her house, killed her mother and cut her leg during the 22-day Israeli air raid on the Gaza Strip that ended on Jan. Comment?