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  • September 2008

    • Radical Settlers Fight Palestine —and Israel

      New York Times  |  Sep 26, 08 10:17 AM CDT

      Radical Settlers Fight Palestine —and Israel

      (Newser) - A pipe bomb exploded Wednesday night outside the Jerusalem home of a dovish Israeli professor—where authorities also found fliers promising a $300,000 reward to anyone who killed members of a leftist advocacy group. The attack is the latest sign that right-wing settlers are resorting to extremist tactics to show the Israeli government that they will not be removed from their settlements in the West Bank, the New York Times reports. More »

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      Israel  • Palestine  • Ehud Olmert  • Israel and Palestinians  • West Bank  • settlers

    • Livni Nods to Peace Amid Political Talks

      Associated Press  |  Sep 23, 08 3:12 PM CDT

      Livni Nods to Peace Amid Political Talks

      (AP) - Israel's prime minister-designate took a break from her efforts to form a new government today to meet with the chief Palestinian peace negotiator, signaling she will keep negotiations going despite the country's political uncertainty. Tzipi Livni and the Palestinian negotiator, Ahmed Qureia, have met regularly since peace talks formally relaunched at a US-hosted summit last November. More »

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      Israel  • Palestine  • Arab Israeli conflict  • Tzipi Livni  • Mideast peace talks

    • Pop Culture Battles Fundamentalists in Gaza

      New York Times  |  Sep 7, 08 3:34 PM CDT

      Pop Culture Battles Fundamentalists in Gaza

      (Newser) - Culture is the quiet battleground in Gaza, where Jennifer Lopez pouts on CD covers beside religious paperbacks on store shelves, the New York Times reports. Combating daily food shortages and feeling isolated, Gazans escape with soap operas, sitcoms, and music—homegrown or imported from the West. But recent incidents—from a party host beaten for serving alcohol, to a theater director held at gunpoint—have heightened cultural tensions. More »

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      television  • Hamas  • Palestine  • Gaza  • Fatah  • culture  • culture wars  • Palestinian people  • Noor TV

    • Gaza Camps Offer Arts and Crafts, Not AK-47s

      Christian Science Monitor  |  Sep 4, 08 1:58 PM CDT

      Gaza Camps Offer Arts and Crafts, Not AK-47s

      (Newser) - The UN’s Relief and Works Agency is combating extremism in the Gaza Strip with some unconventional weapons: hula hoops, finger-painting, and sports, the Christian Science Monitor reports. The agency runs summer programs in 350 locations for Gaza’s youth in an attempt to counteract Hamas’ militant equivalent, where young Palestinians learn martial arts, train with fake weapons, and are taught religious intolerance. More »

  • August 2008

    • Israel Releases 198 Palestinians

      AFP  |  Aug 25, 08 9:09 AM CDT

      Israel Releases 198 Palestinians

      (Newser) - Israel today released 198 Palestinian prisoners in an effort to bolster Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas, the AFP reports. The release, on the eve of a visit by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, included two prisoners held since the late 1970s who were convicted of murdering Israelis. One of them, a Fatah party member who killed an Israeli settler in Hebron, was elected to parliament in 2006. More »

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      Israel  • Hamas  • Palestine  • Ehud Olmert  • Mahmoud Abbas  • Fatah  • peace talks  • Israeli prisoner release

    • Why No Arab Rage Over Darfur?

      New Republic  |  Aug 15, 08 7:45 PM CDT

      Why No Arab Rage Over Darfur?

      (Newser) - Israel's wrongs against Palestine are "minor" compared to other modern conflicts—yet Arab leaders continue to cry bloody murder over Palestine while ignoring and covering up atrocities in Darfur, writes Martin Peretz, editor-in-chief of The New Republic . Darfur "does not trouble the conscience of Islam," Peretz writes. "They are otherwise engaged in the hyper-drama of Palestine." More »

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      Palestine  • Sudan  • Darfur  • genocide  • Palestinians  • Arabs  • massacre

    • Olmert Proposes New West Bank, Gaza Borders

      Haaretz  |  Aug 12, 08 11:26 AM CDT

      Olmert Proposes New West Bank, Gaza Borders

      (Newser) - Ehud Olmert has presented Mahmoud Abbas with a plan to withdraw from most of the West Bank and all of the Gaza Strip once the Palestinian Authority retakes Gaza from Hamas. The centerpiece of the proposal is a new permanent border that would keep 7% of the West Bank in Israel in exchange for adding some territory to Gaza. Abbas immediately rejected the proposal because it doesn't create a contiguous Palestinian state, though it offers passage without checkpoints between the West Bank and Gaza. More »

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      Hamas  • Palestine  • Ehud Olmert  • Mahmoud Abbas  • Gaza  • Israel and Palestinians  • West Bank  • Fatah  • border dispute  • Palestinian statehood

    • Palestinian Poet Dead at 67

      Los Angeles Times  |  Aug 10, 08 7:56 PM CDT

      Palestinian Poet Dead at 67

      (Newser) - Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish died yesterday from heart surgery complications in Houston at age 67, the Los Angeles Times reports. Considered Palestine’s unofficial poet laureate, Darwish penned the territory’s symbolic Declaration of Independence in 1988 and depicted life under Israeli rule in his work. "He was the Palestinian conscience," a Palestinian MP told the Daily Telegraph . More »

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      obituary  • Palestine  • writer  • poet laureate

    • Palestinians Forced to Spy for Medical Care

      Guardian (UK)  |  Aug 4, 08 9:09 AM CDT

      Palestinians Forced to Spy for Medical Care

      (Newser) - Israeli authorities are coercing sick Palestinians into spying on their communities in Gaza, according to a report by an Israeli human rights group. Israel's secret police are telling Gazans seeking entry into the country for vital medical care that they must become informants or they won't be allowed in, reports the Guardian. Thirty ailing Palestinians submitted testimony detailing their interrogations. More »

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      Israel  • Palestine  • Gaza  • Israel and Palestinians  • spying  • medical treatment  • collaboration

  • July 2008

    • Global Leaders Slam Israel's West Bank Expansion Plan

      Washington Post  |  Jul 25, 08 9:46 AM CDT

      Global Leaders Slam Israel's West Bank Expansion Plan

      (Newser) - Israeli plans to build a new West Bank settlement—one that was shelved after strenuous objections from the US in 2006—were revived yesterday, sparking an international outcry, the Washington Post reports. “They're burying the Annapolis process,” said a Palestinian negotiator, referring to agreements made at the Bush-led summit last fall. The State Department concurred, and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said it would violate international law. More »

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      Israel  • Palestine  • Ehud Olmert  • West Bank  • Arab Israeli conflict  • Annapolis summit  • expansion  • Palestinian statehood  • road map

    • Obama, in Israel, Vows to Work for Peace as President

      Associated Press  |  Jul 22, 08 5:16 PM CDT

      Obama, in Israel, Vows to Work for Peace as President

      (Newser) - Barack Obama touched down in Israel late today, promising work on peace negotiations “starting from the minute I’m sworn into office.” He said that while the “historic and special relationship” between the US and Israel “is not going to change,” an American president could be more concerned with &ld