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MIDEAST: Security Council Urged to Take Up Gaza War
By Eli Clifton
WASHINGTON - Pressure has been building on the U.N. Security Council to address the impact of the Gaza war on civilians in advance of its meeting Wednesday to discuss the Middle East.
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MIDEAST: Cold Turkey Could Change Political Balance
Analysis by Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler
JERUSALEM - It's long been among the most durable, strategic relationships in the Near East - perhaps because it was the most unlikely.
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MIDEAST: Gaza Gets Ambitious With Mud
By Eva Bartlett
SHEIKH ZAYED, Gaza - On a searing summer morning, workers are adding layers to the mud-brick police station being constructed in Sheikh Zayed, northern Gaza.
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MIDEAST: Rift Developing Between PA and Fatah
By Mel Frykberg
RAMALLAH - An increasingly isolated and unpopular Palestinian Authority (PA) has again made a 180-degree turn in the Goldstone report fiasco as it tries to fend off mounting criticism from all and sundry, including its own organisation.
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MIDEAST: Another Nobel Message for Peace
Analysis by Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler
JERUSALEM - In the week of Nobel Prize announcements, the most intriguing comment from the Middle East came not, as one might have expected, as a straight reaction to the shock of U.S. President Barack Obama being awarded this year's Peace Prize.
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MIDEAST: Muslims See Victory at Al-Aqsa
By Mel Frykberg
EAST JERUSALEM - Clashes between Israeli security forces and protesting Palestinians have subsided as several hundred Muslims agreed to evacuate Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque following a deal brokered by the Jordanian Embassy in Tel Aviv Saturday.
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MIDEAST: U.S. Strategy in Doubt as Abbas Loses Popular Support
Analysis by Helena Cobban*
WASHINGTON - Just two months ago, many western commentators were jubilant that Mahmoud Abbas, the U.S.-supported head of both the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) and the interim Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority (PA), was making a comeback and reducing the influence in Palestinian society of the Islamist movement Hamas.
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MIDEAST: Unrest Rising Over Goldstone Report
Analysis by Mel Frykberg
RAMALLAH - The Palestinian Authority (PA) is trying desperately to contain the political fallout following its decision to withdraw support for a UN report into war crimes committed in Gaza in December and January.
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POLITICS-US: Democrats Disgruntled as Obama Fails to Deliver
Analysis by Eli Clifton
WASHINGTON - Since before taking office, U.S. President Barack Obama has been no stranger to being in the crosshairs of Republican pundits who have accused him of everything from bring a "secret communist" to a tax-and-spend liberal who would oversee huge expansions in the federal government.
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MIDEAST: Finally Taking Off Their Gloves
Analysis by Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler
JERUSALEM - Amazingly, just when all four parties - the U.S., its allies in the Arab world, the Palestinian Authority, and Israel - seemed to have hit rock bottom in terms of the prospects of moving the region away from conflict and towards peace, all of a sudden everything seems to be pointing in the exact opposition direction.
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MIDEAST: Voices of Gloom Get Louder
By Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler
ABU DIS, Occupied West Bank - Three Israeli soldiers, automatic rifles slung across their shoulders, are questioning a group of Palestinian builders. The top floors being added to the concrete house that lies right alongside Israel's security wall which divides off occupied East Jerusalem from Palestinian territory on the eastern side of the wall have evidently aroused some concern.
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EGYPT: Virtually, Some Real Freedom
By Cam McGrath
CAIRO - Egyptians critical of their government are using new media and the Internet to expose its improprieties and press for social change.
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ISRAEL-US: Goldstone Rejects Netanyahu Remarks
By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - The head of the U.N. commission that investigated the December-January Gaza war Thursday rejected assertions by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that any action to pursue the recommendations of his commission's report could prove fatal to any renewed peace process with the Palestinians.
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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.