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MIDEAST: Siege Hits Palestinians Before They Are Born
By Mohammed Omer
GAZA CITY - The Israeli siege of Gaza that has restricted access to food, water and medicine is now beginning to hit unborn children and newborn babies.
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EGYPT: Giving With One Hand, Taking Back With the Other
By Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-Omrani
CAIRO - In an effort to offset soaring inflation, President Hosni Mubarak last month announced generous salary increases for all public sector employees. The gesture lost its lustre days later, however, when the government drastically raised prices of subsidised fuel.
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MIDEAST: Another Corruption Scandal Pursues Olmert
By Peter Hirschberg
JERUSALEM - Badly tarnished by his management of the Lebanon war in the summer of 2006, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert had begun, in recent months, to resurrect his public image. But a new corruption scandal in which he is being questioned by police has again undermined his credibility, and raised questions about his ability to govern effectively.
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POLITICS: Bush Tour Diminished by Hezbollah Show of Force
Analysis by Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON - While this week's trip by President George W. Bush to Israel, Saudi Arabia and Egypt was never conceived as a triumphant "victory lap" around the region, the swift rout of U.S.-backed forces by Lebanon's Hezbollah Friday has provided yet another vivid illustration of the rapid decline in Washington's influence in the Middle East during his tenure.
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MIDEAST: Spy Chief Presents New Peace Plan
By Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-Omrani
CAIRO - Palestinian resistance factions signed on to an Egyptian ceasefire proposal last month aimed at bringing a measure of calm to the hapless Gaza Strip. In a bid to secure Tel Aviv's endorsement of the plan, intelligence chief Omar Suleiman is expected to travel to Israel later this month.
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LEBANON: Hezbollah, In Opposition, Takes Charge
Analysis by Mona Alami
BEIRUT - At least 11 people are dead and 30 injured during ferocious gun battles pitting opposition Shia Amal and Hezbollah fighters against members of the Sunni Future Movement, which is part of the majority March 14 alliance in government. As the opposition's militia men clamped down on government headquarters, the balance of power seems to have been shifted permanently in the Land of the Cedars.
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LEBANON: Hezbollah Unleashes a Coup Bid
By Mona Alami
BEIRUT - Men clad in black have roamed the streets of Beirut since Wednesday, their faces covered with ski masks or dark kaffiya, as they wreaked havoc in the large avenues leading to the airport or dividing Sunni and Shia areas. As darkness loomed over Lebanon, the winds of discord seem to set the Lebanese capital ablaze.
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MIDEAST: Israelis Believe Another War Is Coming
Analysis by Peter Hirschberg
JERUSALEM - As Israel marks its 60th anniversary, Israelis are deeply pessimistic about the prospects of peace with their neighbours, with an overwhelming majority believing they will be at war again within the next five years.
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MIDEAST: Villagers Fight for Promised Land
By Zack Baddorf
BI'LIN, The West Bank - Some 1,700 Palestinians in the West Bank village of Bi'lin have been promised land, but so far it has not been delivered.
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LEBANON: Al-Qaeda on a Slippery Base
By Mona Alami
BEIRUT - Al-Qaeda's second-in-command, Ayman Zawahiri, announced in an audiotape broadcast Apr. 21 that Islamic groups would play a pivotal role in the war against Jews, and encouraged militants to expel invading 'Crusaders' masquerading as peacekeepers, referring to UNIFIL troops deployed in South Lebanon.
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EGYPT: Salary Hike Kills Strike
By Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-Omrani
CAIRO - Calls for a nationwide protest against the rising cost of living ended in anticlimax on Sunday (May 4), with most Egyptians going to work as usual. Although protest leaders had urged the public to register its disaffection en masse by staying home, the streets of the capital were busy.
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MIDEAST: Egypt Braces for New Gaza Influx
By Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-Omrani
CAIRO - With next-door Gaza Strip in a humanitarian crisis, the government is desperate to avoid a repeat of January's Palestinian influx into the Sinai Peninsula. In recent weeks, the security presence along Egypt's 14-kilometre border with the hapless territory has been significantly reinforced.
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MIDEAST: Too Quiet in the Harbour
By Mohammed Omer
GAZA CITY - It's been strangely quiet for some time at the port in Gaza. No clanging of hooks, no sounds of creaking cranes or of thumping of nets upon decks. Boat engines, normally puttering and spewing exhaust, lie entombed under covers.
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In addition to the historically unbridgeable divide between Israel and the Palestinians, a split is broadening between the militant Hamas and the relatively moderate Fatah groups on the Palestinian side. Israel faces its own internal disagreements on such issues as Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank. And with every opening divide, trouble in the region escalates. IPS correspondents provide the big-picture perspective on the Middle East.