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MIDEAST: Muslims See Victory at Al-Aqsa 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. MORE >>
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. MORE >>
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. MORE >>
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. MORE >>
MIDEAST: Voices of Gloom Get Louder 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. MORE >>
EGYPT: Virtually, Some Real Freedom Cam McGrath CAIRO - Egyptians critical of their government are using new media and the Internet to expose its improprieties and press for social change. MORE >>
ISRAEL-US: Goldstone Rejects Netanyahu Remarks 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. MORE >>
MIDEAST: A Diplomat Visits, and Listens Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler EAST JERUSALEM - The U.S. consulate on Agron Street is something alien in the carefully calibrated diplomatic world of Arab-Israeli politics. MORE >>
MIDEAST: Riots May Point to Third Palestinian Uprising Mel Frykberg EAST JERUSALEM - Palestinian politicians and Israeli political analysts are warning of a third Palestinian Intifadah following serious rioting in East Jerusalem last Sunday. MORE >>
MIDEAST: A Good Time Not to Make Peace Analysis by Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler JERUSALEM - Most analysts agree that the past week of Middle East diplomacy has actually set back the cause of peacemaking. If they are right that the intensive U.S.-led effort has actually diminished prospects for a breakthrough towards Palestinian-Israel peace, who is to blame? MORE >>
US-MIDEAST: A Week of Dimming Peace Prospects Analysis by Helena Cobban* WASHINGTON - Eight months after Barack Obama launched his presidency by promising a speedy push for Palestinian-Israeli peace, that effort has stalled badly. And there are now growing fears that the top levels of Obama's peace team are torn by internal disagreements that may undermine the whole peace effort. MORE >>
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