...in Jerusalem. He told ABC's This Week that the move was both an "affront" and an "insult." Here's the video: Send an email to Ravi Somaiya, the author of this post, at ravi@gawker.com. Send a link to...

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...Gaza Strip last year. The Kent-based Palestine Children's Relief Fund helped fly him to Cleveland, where last week he underwent the first of two planned surgeries at the Cleveland Clinic. The Clinic and its...

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...of talks that broke off after Israel's invasion of Gaza last winter. Now, finally, the two sides have agreed to enter "proximity'' talks; Obama's special envoy for the Mideast, former Sen. George Mitchell,...

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...Palestine, Afghanistan, Iraq and Yemen." Bubalo believes Iran is trying to place itself within "technical reach" of a nuclear weapon largely via a civil nuclear program. "The question is what will happen once...

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...in Gaza last year and destroying its infrastructure. Many, if not most, she says, don't believe Israel is really committed to a peace process. Both Kaye and Tannenwald agree that there is a much more...

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...the Lebanese coast. On 8 June, the Secretary of Defense ordered the Marine Amphibious Ready Group at Rota to the eastern Med for potential evacuation of American citizens from Beirut, Lebanon. John F. Kennedy s...

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By Erika Solomon Concerned that its image abroad is suffering, Israel is going on the offensive to show that Palestinians, not Israelis, are responsible for perpetuating the region's cycle of violence. With the...

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...Palestinians, McCarthy suggested that the real "question is whether the Palestinian people are educable. " The most important thing to understand about Andrew McCarthy is that he has parlayed his long-ago...

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...in 1982 and the 15,000 Lebanese and Palestinian dead. Forget the Sabra and Shatila massacre that same year by Israel's militia allies as their troops watched. Erase the Qana massacre of 1996 -- 106 Lebanese killed...

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...Ban Ki-moon arrived in the region seeking to end the war on Hamas that has killed nearly 1,000 Palestinians. By Mahmud Hams/Getty.) Listed below are links to weblogs that reference 'The Neocon-Islamist Dynamic'

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...for Hamas but aid for the people living in Gaza. However, since weapons are being smuggled through these same tunnels, Israel is forced to make a decision. Israel doesn't win, the civilian population of Gaza...

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...to disproportionately attack Hizbollah "strongholds" in Lebanese villages. He suggested that 160 Shia Muslim villages in the UN's area of control were now arms storage dumps - a palpable untruth, as the UN knows -...

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...freezes all settlement construction in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, which Israel captured from Jordan in the 1967 Middle East War. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared a partial 10-month...

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...however, that the group was capable of attacks abroad. "We can hurt the occupation within the borders of occupied Palestine or without.... We will choose the best thing for us, our people, and our ties...

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...of sabotaging the Israeli-Palestine peace process by launching attacks on civilians during Israeli elections to anger Israeli voters and facilitate the election of harder-line Israeli candidates. For example,...

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...under siege. On June 6, the United States joined a unanimous U.N. Security Council Resolution demanding that Israel withdraw from Lebanon and that the border cease-fire be observed by all parties. Amidst a great...

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...and Israel had invaded and occupied Southern Lebanon and besieged Beirut. Hezbollah waged an asymmetrical guerrilla war against Israel. At the beginning, it had used suicide attacks against the Israel Defense...

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...to Israel's invasion of Lebanon. It has local branches in all regions of England, Scotland and Wales and close links with the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign. Current campaigns include Boycott...

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...with impunity." Facing a storm of criticism from Jordanians, Palestinians, and his Arab neighbors for failing to protect Samu, Hussein ordered a nation-wide mobilization on 20 November. Hussein complained...

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...sending in ground troops. Hamas launched its highly inaccurate Qassam rockets in increased numbers at Israeli towns near the Gaza border, before agreeing to a ceasefire. Palestinians and rights groups...

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