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MIDEAST: 'Prince of Peace' - Obama or Netanyahu?
Analysis by Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler
JERUSALEM - United States President Barack Obama’s intended broad Mideast policies are running into the complexities of peacemaking - especially after the ‘Prince of Peace’ began insisting on the necessity of, sometimes, fighting for peace.
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U.S.: Digging Out or Digging Deeper?
Analysis by Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON - As 2009 draws to a close, the big question here is whether President Barack Obama is succeeding in digging out of the hole – international as well as financial - that he inherited from George W. Bush or digging deeper into it.
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Q&A: ''Israeli Settlements Killing Two-Nation Solution''
Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler interview GHASSAN KHATIB, director of the Palestinian Government Media Centre.
JERUSALEM - In the absence of any progress towards peace between Israelis and Palestinians, leaders of the Palestinian Authority (PA) are adopting a reasonable approach as a way of building up international pressure on Israel to get it back to the negotiating table.
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MIDEAST: New Year Reopens Wounds of the Old
By Eva Bartlett
GAZA CITY - For many survivors of the last Israeli war on Gaza, time has not healed their wounds, physical or emotional.
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LEBANON: Hip-hop Kindles Hopes in Destroyed Refugee Camp
By Ray Smith
NAHR AL-BARED (North Lebanon) - The hip-hop beats ringing through the muddy, unlit streets of this burnt-out Palestinian refugee camp seem incongruous. But the rhymes are camp-grown - and courageous.
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Q&A: ''U.S. 'Grand Bargain' Can Save Israel From Itself''
Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler interview DAVID LANDAU, top Israeli journalist and author.
JERUSALEM - Resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict along the two-state parameters seems less likely with Israel torn between accepting a Palestinian state and the settler ideology which calls for Israel’s exclusive rule over the whole of Jerusalem and the West Bank.
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MIDEAST: Israel Declares War on Peace NGOs
By Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler
JERUSALEM - One year after the devastating attack on Hamas in Gaza a new wave of reports castigating Israel for war crimes has emerged.
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US-LEBANON: Hard Line on Hezbollah Clashes with Political Reality
By Ellen Massey
WASHINGTON - Lebanese President Michel Sleiman visited Washington last week, for his first visit with President Barack Obama. The meeting was a quick one, tucked in amongst the myriad of domestic issues that are demanding Obama's attention.
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MIDEAST: ‘’What About the Mailboxes?’’
By Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler
OCCUPIED EAST JERUSALEM - The sun is about to set over Jabel Mukaber. The call of the muezzin envelops the valley beneath Naim Aweisat’s balcony and, rolling from the mosques of Abu Dis across the wall in the West Bank, rebounds from the stark concrete Israeli security wall to answer the minarets that peer over the walled Old City.
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MIDEAST: Gaza March Puts Spotlight on Civilian Suffering
By Andrea Bordé
UNITED NATIONS - More than 50,000 people are expected to take to the streets of Gaza on Dec. 31 for a mass march designed to send a message to the United States, a key supporter of Israel's army, that the situation in Gaza violates international human rights laws.
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JORDAN: Palestinian Refugees Live Out Lives in Limbo
By Mona Alami
AMMAN - Music enlivens the yellow taxi as it traverses the Jordanian capital. A small Palestinian flag hangs from the rearview mirror. Jihad, the cab driver, says his father fled here from the Palestinian West Bank in 1948.
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EUROPE: Cosy With Israel, Despite the Headlines
Analysis by David Cronin
BRUSSELS - Israel's relations with the European Union were tense for most of 2009 - if newspaper headlines are to be believed. In the past week, a British court drew fierce criticism from Israeli politicians after it issued an arrest warrant for Tzipi Livni, the former Israeli foreign minister, following a complaint that she had authorised war crimes in Gaza.
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MIDEAST: Occupation Eats Away Israel's Heart and Soul
Analysis by Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler
JERUSALEM - After Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank torched a mosque and desecrated copies of the Quran in the Palestinian village of Yasuf, last Friday morning, they ran into a wall of condemnation.
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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.