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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

 Israel Rejects Ceasefire 

Call it 'unrealistic'

Dec 31, 08 6:48 AM CST
(Newser) - Israel today rejected a 48-hour humanitarian truce designed to allow foreign aid into Gaza, CNN reports. Israeli officials said the deal, proposed by French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, didn’t come with any assurances that Hamas would honor it. “The residents of the south of Israel must have a... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Hamas • truce • Bernard Kouchner • ceasefire

 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

analysis

 Why Hamas 
 Courted Israeli Attacks 

Lack of results confirmed the case for violence

Dec 30, 08 8:07 AM CST
(Newser) - Hamas has long argued that negotiating with Israel won’t help Palestine—and that belief drove its decision to end a six-month ceasefire on December 19, writes Stephen Farrell in the New York Times. While it's possible Hamas leaders underestimated the scale of the Israeli response, which has cost more... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Hamas • Fatah • violence • Palestinians • ceasefire • Arab Israeli conflict

 Sudan Pushes Darfur Ceasefire 

Cooperation from rebels uncertain; past such efforts proved fruitless

Nov 12, 08 4:13 PM CST
(Newser) - Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir announced a unilateral ceasefire in Darfur today, saying the government would begin disarming militias. But no rebels were included in the ceasefire discussions, and similar declarations have failed repeatedly. Bashir is trying to persuade international prosecutors to hold off on attempts to indict him for genocide,... More »

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Darfur • Sudan • Omar al Bashir • ceasefire • International Criminal Court

 Russia Pulls Troops
Out of Georgian Port 

Withdrawal follows terms of EU-backed deal

Sep 13, 08 7:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - Russia is withdrawing troops and vehicles from the Georgian port of Poti and other undisputed areas of the country in accordance with an EU-brokered ceasefire plan, the BBC reports. Trucks left Russian bases established in August, headed toward the breakaway Abkhazia region; troops are likely to remain there and in... More »

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Russia • Georgia • troop withdrawal • ceasefire • peace deal

Georgia Cuts Diplomatic Ties With Moscow

Nation withdraws embassy staff from 'aggressor nation'

Aug 29, 08 1:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Georgia pulled its diplomats from Moscow today, charging that it cannot engage in diplomacy with an “aggressor country,” the AP reports. A spokesman for Russia’s Foreign Ministry said the Georgians’ cutting of diplomatic ties would not benefit relations between the two countries. Russian troops remain in Georgia,... More »

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Russia • European Union • Nicolas Sarkozy • Georgia • ceasefire • Abkhazia • South Ossetia

 Russia Keeps Troops in Poti  


Aug 23, 08 10:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - Russia says it will continue to patrol the key Black Sea port of Poti despite Western demands that it pull back to pre-conflict positions, Reuters reports. A Russian general said troops will continue "peacekeeping" operations there even though the city falls outside the perimeter agreed upon in the recent... More »

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Russia • Georgia • Black Sea • troop withdrawal • ceasefire • military presence

Russians Pull Back, But West Not Satisfied

'Peacekeeping' posts appear likely to remain on Georgian soil

Aug 22, 08 3:14 PM CDT
(Newser) - Having withdrawn from the Georgian city of Gori, Russia said tonight it is in full compliance with a cease-fire agreement, the New York Times reports. Despite criticism from the US and France, nations that helped broker the deal, Moscow continues to occupy the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia,... More »

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Russia • Georgia • United States • peacekeeping force • peacekeeper • Mikheil Saakashvili • ceasefire

Russia Blocks UN Effort to End Georgia War

Moscow refuses call
to withdraw troops
to pre-conflict lines

Aug 20, 08 8:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - Russia has rejected a draft Security Council resolution seeking to end the violence in Georgia, reports the BBC, by rejecting the UN body's call to return to its pre-conflict positions. Russia, which wants to keep its troops inside South Ossetia, said that the clause contradicts last week's ceasefire. Moscow holds... More »

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Russia • United Nations • Condoleezza Rice • Georgia • ceasefire • NATO summit • UN Security Council • UN resolution

(Newser) - Russian troops took control of the key Georgian port of Poti for about 4 hours today, just one day after it pledged to withdraw from the country, the Wall Street Journal reports. Some 70 Russian troops entered the Black Sea port this morning and detained 20 Georgian coast guard members... More »

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Russia • Georgia • troop withdrawal • port • seizure • ceasefire

UPDATED

Russia Pledges to Start  Georgia Pullout Tomorrow

Forces said to occupy villages, major highway and power plant

Aug 17, 08 8:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - Dimitry Medvedev said today he'll start pulling troops out of Georgia tomorrow, but has no plans to withdraw from the separatist stronghold of South Ossetia, the BBC reports. The Russian president made the pledge after a phone conversation with Nicolas Sarkozy, who had brokered a ceasefire Friday. Despite signing the... More »

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Russia • Nicolas Sarkozy • Condoleezza Rice • Georgia • Russian military • ceasefire • peace deal

 Georgia Signs
 Rice's Ceasefire
 Agreement 

Deal calls for immediate withdrawal of Russian troops

Aug 15, 08 11:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - Mikheil Saakashvili signed a US-brokered ceasefire agreement today following a 5-hour meeting with Condoleezza Rice, CNN reports. As he signed, the Georgian president vowed to “never, ever surrender” to the “21st-century barbarians.” Rice said says she has been assured Dmitri Medvedev will sign the deal, which calls... More »

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Russia • Condoleezza Rice • Georgia • Mikheil Saakashvili • ceasefire • George W. Bush

 Russia Orders End
 to Georgia War

Medvedev announces halt to military operations

Aug 12, 08 4:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered a halt to military operations in Georgia, according to a Kremlin statement. The declaration came moments before Medvedev was to meet with French President Nicolas Sarkozy to discuss an international peace plan after five days of fighting. While Georgian officials claimed that the Russian... More »

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Russia • Nicolas Sarkozy • Vladimir Putin • Georgia • Mikheil Saakashvili • ceasefire • Dmitry Medvedev • Abkhazia • South Ossetia

Bush Warns Russia to Pull Back in Georgia

Kremlin may have planned and instigated war, US official says

Aug 11, 08 7:04 PM CDT
(AP) - President Bush on Monday demanded that Russia end a "dramatic and brutal escalation" of violence in Georgia, agree to an immediate cease-fire and accept international mediation to end the crisis in the former Soviet republic. "Russia has invaded a sovereign neighboring state and threatens a democratic government elected... More »

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Russia • Georgia • war • ceasefire • George W. Bush • South Ossetia

Georgia Signs Ceasefire; Negotiators Head to Moscow

Kouchner brokers accord as new threats arise in Abkhazia

Aug 11, 08 6:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili has signed a ceasefire agreement drafted by the European Union, which EU mediators will present to Moscow later today. Bernard Kouchner, the French foreign minister, visited Tbilisi this morning and said that the Georgian leader was "determined to make peace." Kouchner will now try... More »

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Russia • Georgia • truce • Tbilisi • Bernard Kouchner • ceasefire • Dmitry Medvedev • Abkhazia • South Ossetia

Sadr Offers to Trade Militia for Set Timetable

Already disbanding Mahdi Army, cleric wants firm US deal

Aug 8, 08 1:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ordered most of his Mahdi Army to disband today, and offered to completely dismantle it once the US agrees to a withdrawal timetable, Time reports. “The main reason for the armed resistance is the American military presence,” said a Sadr spokesman. “If the... More »

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Mahdi Army • timetable • ceasefire • Muqtada al-Sadr • Iraq exit strategy • Momahidoun

 Gaza Truce Takes Hold 

Skeptics wary of future of the ceasefire

Jun 19, 08 8:00 AM CDT
(AP) - Guns went quiet as a six-month truce between Israel and Gaza Strip militants took effect early today, despite widespread skepticism about its longevity. If the quiet holds, Israel will ease its blockade on Sunday to allow larger shipments of some supplies. A week later Israel is to further ease restrictions... More »

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Israel • Middle East • Gaza • Palestine • Hamas • ceasefire

 Israel, Hamas Agree to
 Begin Ceasefire Thursday 

But Jerusalem waiting to see if it's 'serious'

Jun 17, 08 9:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Israel has reached a tentative truce with Hamas, brokered by Egypt, the BBC and AP report. Starting Thursday, the two sides will begin a “mutual and simultaneous calm,” in which militants will theoretically stop their daily cross-border rocket bombardments, and Israel will in turn cease its military raids.... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Hamas • Gilad Shalit • Israel and Palestinians • truce • ceasefire • Mideast peace talks

 Hamas Truce 'Not 
 Serious': Israel 

But militants stopping rocket fire could bring de facto ceasefire in Gaza, official says

Apr 25, 08 3:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - Israel said a Hamas truce proposal yesterday was not genuine, and the Islamist organization would only regroup and strengthen itself during the 6-month ceasefire, AFP reports. "Unfortunately, this appears not to be serious at all," an Israeli spokesman said today, although officials said a prolonged halt in the... More »

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Israel • Gaza • Hamas • rocket attacks • Egypt • ceasefire • Gaza Egypt border • Gaza blockade

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