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The New York Review of Books reports on Gaza and the Israeli Peace Movement one year after the Gaza offensive. David Hulme Bookmark It Hide Sites $$(‘div.d4107′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(‘slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) });

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Posted on January 12th, 2010 under conflict. Tags: Gaza, Israel, peace movement. Comments: None

Hillary Clinton’s latest efforts to restart peace talks met with a rebuff from the veteran Palestinian negotiator over the weekend. According to Saeb Erekat “You cannot have discussions on borders while the territory you want to set up your state on is being eaten up by the settlements.” David Hulme Bookmark It Hide Sites $$(‘div.d4104′).each( [...]

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Posted on January 10th, 2010 under conflict, Middle East politics. Tags: borders, Clinton, erekat, Israel, Palestine, Peace, settlements. Comments: None

B’Tselem, the Israeli organization that focuses on human rights in the occupied territories issued its assessment of fatalities during the Gaza offensive known as Operation Cast Lead. David Hulme Bookmark It Hide Sites $$(‘div.d4100′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(‘slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) });

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Posted on September 9th, 2009 under conflict. Tags: B'Tselem, Gaza, human rights, Israel. Comments: None

The White House has issued a statement (September 5) about the Israeli government’s latest building plans. Hoping to retain settler support and then follow up with a freeze on construction to meet US demands, PM Netanyahu announced the latest permissions–Helena Cobban comments. David Hulme Bookmark It Hide Sites $$(‘div.d4091′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(‘slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) });

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Posted on September 8th, 2009 under agreements, conflict, Middle East politics. Tags: Israel, Palestine, United States. Comments: None

Helena Cobban has a very detailed run down on the latest Israeli-Palestinian behind-the-scenes negotiations over prisoner releases that could free key Hamas and Fateh militants from Israeli hands, and one Israeli soldier held in Gaza since 2006. All of this could be the precursor to declaration of another truce between Hamas and Israel. At the [...]

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Posted on February 16th, 2009 under agreements. Tags: Fateh, Gaza, Israel, Palestine. Comments: None

People around the world, among them journalists, commentators, bloggers, scholars and government leaders have decried the Israeli attack on Gaza. International Herald Tribune and New York Times columnist Roger Cohen writes in The New York Review of Books (February 12 issue), “I have never previously felt so despondent about Israel, so shamed by its actions, [...]

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Posted on February 9th, 2009 under Uncategorized. Tags: Gaza, Hamas, Israel. Comments: 1

The latest war in the region ended January 18 when Israel and Hamas each declared separate ceasefires. During 23 days of bombardment and ground fighting, 1300 Palestinians (mostly civilians) and 13 Israelis (3 civilians) died. The disproportionate death toll tells the story of military asymmetry, but not the true dimensions of the human tragedy. In [...]

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Posted on February 9th, 2009 under conflict. Tags: Gaza, Hamas, Israel. Comments: None

Ethan Bronner is Jerusalem bureau chief for the The Times. Here he reviews a new collection of scholarly essays on how to resolve the ME’s various critical problems. The authors, who work in two ME think tanks deal in “nuance and realism, despite small lapses.” The two policy research groups also have close relations to [...]

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Posted on January 16th, 2009 under conflict, Middle East politics, middle east tradition. Tags: conflict, Iran, Israel, Jerusalem, Peace, Tehran. Comments: None

Israeli author, David Grossman has a reasoned piece in the NYT today about the current Israeli campaign to crush Hamas. He argues for a 48 hour unilateral ceasefire on Israel’s part. Grossman, whose eldest son was killed in the 2006 Lebanon War, maintains that such an approach taken early in that conflict, would have put [...]

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Posted on December 31st, 2008 under conflict. Tags: Gaza, Grossman, Hamas, Israel, Palestine. Comments: 1