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Palestine stories: 205 news summaries

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Mitchell, Holbrooke Named Special Envoys 

Former senator gets Mideast portfolio; ex-ambassador Afghanistan and Pakistan

Jan 22, 09 3:11 PM CST
(Newser) - President Obama and newly minted Secretary of State Hillary Clinton moved quickly today to build the administration’s diplomatic efforts, naming George Mitchell and Richard Holbrooke special envoys, Reuters reports; both appointments were expected. Former Sen. Mitchell will focus on facilitating peace talks between Israel and Palestine, while ex-UN ambassador... More »

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Afghanistan • Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Israel • Palestine • State Department • secretary of State • George Mitchell • Obama administration • Richard Holbrooke • President Obama • special envoy

(AP) - The last Israeli troops left the Gaza Strip before dawn today, the military said, as Israel dispatched its foreign minister to Europe in a bid to rally international support to end arms smuggling into the Hamas-ruled territory. The timing of the pullout reflected Israeli hopes to defuse the Gaza crisis... More »

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Israel • Middle East • Gaza • Palestine • Europe • Tzipi Livni • troop withdrawal • Israel and Palestinians • Brussels • Arab Israeli conflict

 Mitchell Considered 
 for Mideast Post 

Former senator's portfolio could take chunk out of Clinton's at State

Jan 19, 09 1:24 PM CST
(Newser) - Former Sen. George Mitchell, who led a 2000 commission examining Middle Eastern violence, is being considered as special envoy to the region by the Obama administration, the New York Times reports. The appointment of such a high-profile negotiator would signal Obama’s seriousness about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but could deprive... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Israel • Middle East • Palestine • George Mitchell • President Obama • special envoy

(Newser) - Israel began pulling troops out of the Gaza Strip today after Hamas echoed the call for a ceasefire, the Times of London reports. As troops started leaving, Gazans came out of their homes to survey the damage. Mosque loudspeakers declared "victory," but Palestinians appeared too stunned to... More »

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Gaza • Palestine • Hamas • troop withdrawal • Israel and Palestinians • ceasefire • Arab Israeli conflict • Ban Ki-Moon

updated

 Israel Quiets 
 Guns in Gaza 

Goals achieved, PM says; Hamas rejects ceasefire and makes demands

Jan 17, 09 7:05 PM CST
(Newser) - Israel ended its 3-week assault on Gaza today by enacting a unilateral ceasefire that Hamas has vowed to ignore, Reuters reports. Israeli leaders voted today to halt the offensive, which has killed nearly 1,200 people and incited strong reactions worldwide, MSNBC reports. “Goals have been achieved and even... More »

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Israel • Ehud Olmert • Gaza • Palestine • Hamas • Israel and Palestinians

 Israel Nears Decision 
 on Gaza Ceasefire 

Cabinet may approve unilateral move at meeting tomorrow

Jan 16, 09 2:24 PM CST
(Newser) - Israel’s security cabinet will meet tomorrow to discuss, and likely approve, a unilateral ceasefire in Gaza, the Jerusalem Post reports. The move comes after negotiations in Egypt and the signing of an agreement with the US designed to halt smuggling of arms into Gaza. The ceasefire does not include... More »

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Israel • Ehud Olmert • Gaza • Palestine • Hamas • Tzipi Livni • Egypt • Ehud Barak • ceasefire

(AP) - Osama bin Laden today urged Muslims to launch a jihad against Israel and condemned Arab governments as allies of the Jewish state, the AP reports. In a new message aimed at harnessing anger in the Mideast over the Gaza offensive, bin Laden spoke in an audiotape posted on Islamic militant... More »

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Israel • terrorism • Gaza • Palestine • jihad • Osama bin Laden

 Israeli Pummels Gaza, Pauses 

Air strikes hit 40 targets overnight

Jan 10, 09 6:52 AM CST
(Newser) - Israel continued to pound Gaza last night and this morning as air strikes hit 40 targets and killed 15 Hamas fighters, CNN reports. Attacks were halted for the 3-hour pause this afternoon to allow Gaza residents to restock supplies, the third such pause in the two-week-old conflict. Health workers say... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Palestine • Hamas • Arab Israeli conflict • airstrike • casualties • UN resolution

OPINION

Israel's Only Option: Destroy Hamas Entirely

Krauthammer: Olmert has a second chance to defeat extremism

Jan 9, 09 9:48 AM CST
(Newser) - There are only two possible outcomes of the war in Gaza, writes Charles Krauthammer: the complete destruction of Hamas or an internationally supervised truce à la Lebanon. Under immense diplomatic pressure, Israel is hinting it will accept the French-Egyptian ceasefire plan. That would be "a terrible mistake," writes... More »

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Palestinian Authority • Israel • Ehud Olmert • Gaza • Palestine • Hamas • Lebanon War

OPINION

Cynicism Key to Israel's Arsenal 

Aid to Palestinians 'not unlike raising animals for slaughter,' as Tel Aviv acts ever the victim

Jan 7, 09 2:13 PM CST
(Newser) - “The promulgation of a hyper-nationalist ethos” in Israeli media coverage of the Gaza situation doesn’t surprise Neve Gordon, he writes in the Nation—what’s unsettling is the cynical war ethic emerging around humanitarian aid. As one reporter explains, Israel gives assistance to Palestinians during times of war... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Palestine • Jews • Gaza Strip border • humanitarian aid

analysis

 Hamas: We're 
 Winning the 
 Sympathy War  

Group sees political gains in the face of casualties

Jan 6, 09 3:56 PM CST
(Newser) - The casualties—most of them civilians—are appalling, but Hamas still sees itself coming out the winner in Israel’s devastating Gaza offensive, Time reports. In a war of “perception,” write Jamil Hamad and Tony Karon, Hamas is reaping sympathy from the wide distribution of images of suffering... More »

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Israel • politics • Palestine • Hamas • perception • Arab Israeli conflict

COMMENTARY

 Gazans Hunker Down 
 in 'Worst' Time of All 

Refugees arrive in city with horror stories

Jan 6, 09 1:00 PM CST
(Newser) - Lentils and bread nearly are all Safwat al-Kahlout can offer the 20 relatives holed up in his powerless Gaza City apartment, he writes in the Christian Science Monitor. As Israeli tanks roll through the city's outskirts, family members have fled inward to his flat. "I took my clothes and... More »

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Gaza • Palestine • Hamas • Gaza City • food shortage • Arab Israeli conflict • rations

OPINION

 'The Israelis Killed My Father' 


Jan 5, 09 1:54 PM CST
(Newser) - Fares Akram’s family farm was a small “beloved place,” so close to the Israeli border that they’d always feared it would be hit by errant rockets launched by Hamas, he writes in the Independent. Instead, it was blown up by an Israeli bomb while Akram’s... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Palestine • Hamas • Israel and Palestinians • invasion

OPINION

Israel Waging a Heartbreaking, Stupid War

Only 'a Marshall Plan' can bring lasting peace, writes rabbi

Jan 5, 09 11:37 AM CST
(Newser) - Israel's push to wipe out Hamas via military action "is understandable, but stupid," writes Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of the Jewish progressive magazine Tikkun. While Israel clearly must defend itself, "the kind of response matters"—and the killing of Gazan civilians is "a crime... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Palestine • Hamas • Israel and Palestinians • ceasefire • Gaza Strip border

analysis

Middle East Fumes Over Obama's Gaza Silence

Arabs and Muslims disappointed after 'promise of change'

Jan 5, 09 11:10 AM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama's studied silence on the Gaza attacks—there’s only one president at a time, and so on—isn’t playing well in the Middle East, writes Simon Tisdall in the Guardian. “Foreign wars don't wait for Washington inaugurations,” Tisdall notes. Many Arabs and Muslims “cannot... More »

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Israel • Middle East • Gaza • Palestine • Muslim • Arab Israeli conflict • Arab • Israeli offensive • President Obama

analysis

 Will Israel Win 
 Out, or Fire Up 
 Its Enemies? 

Israel's success—or failure—could prompt range of scenarios

Jan 4, 09 7:37 AM CST
(Newser) - Invading the Gaza Strip may boost Israel's leverage, shoring up alliances and isolating Iran—but that's optimistic, writes Steven Lee Myers in the New York Times. President Mahmoud Abbas could be the one isolated—from his own people—as surviving Hamas leaders seethe and militants plot revenge across the Arab... More »

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Iran • Israel • Middle East • Gaza • Palestine • Hamas

(Newser) - You wouldn't know it to hear our political leaders talk, but the country is deeply divided over Israel’s attacks on Gaza, writes Glenn Greenwald on Salon. Most Republican voters support the action, while most Democratic ones do not. Yet Democratic bigwigs such as Pelosi and Reid offer "blind,... More »

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Israel • Republican • Gaza • Palestine • Democrat • airstrike • Glenn Greenwald • opinion polls • Rasmussen Reports • US interests

OPINION

Israel Has the Clear Moral High Ground in Gaza

Really, it's all totally cut and dried. Promise. What?

Jan 2, 09 2:25 PM CST
(Newser) - Many geopolitical conflicts are “morally complicated,” writes Charles Krauthammer in the Washington Post, but “the Israel-Gaza war is not.” Israel wants only peace, while Hamas wants only the eradication of Israel. The Israelis are so scrupulous that they contact enemy noncombatants in advance to warn... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Palestine • Hamas • civilian casualties • collateral damage • Arab Israeli conflict

 Israel Weighs Truce 
 Backed by Ground Threat 

Barak favors ultimatum

Dec 30, 08 10:31 AM CST
(AP) - Israel is considering halting its Gaza offensive temporarily to give Hamas militants an opening to halt rocket fire, an Israeli defense official said today, but with the threat of a ground offensive if a ceasefire does not hold. Ehud Barak will raise the proposal during a meeting tomorrow of Israel's... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Palestine • Hamas • rocket attacks • Ehud Barak • Israel and Palestinians • ceasefire

(Newser) - Anti-Israel protesters gathered in the Arab world and beyond today to protest Israel’s bombing campaign against Gaza, the AP reports. At the largest protest, in Lebanon, tens of thousands of Hezbollah supporters listened as the group’s leader warned Israel of the futility of a ground invasion. "Israel's... More »

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Iran • Israel • Lebanon • Gaza • Palestine • Hamas • Hezbollah • Egypt • protests • airstrike • Muslim Brotherhood

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