JERUSALEM — The Palestinian prime minister, Salam Fayyad, unveiled a government program on Tuesday to build the apparatus of a Palestinian state within two years, regardless of progress in the stalled peace negotiations with Israel.

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Jewish settlers in Beitar Illit and Modiin Illit seem more willing to compromise with their Palestinian neighbors.

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AFTER 60 roller-coaster years in Israeli politics, including two stints as prime minister, Shimon Peres probably did not expect his career to take any more surprising turns.

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Greetings, Saalam & Shalom Mr. President (of the USA and of the PA)

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Pope Benedict XVI travelled to one of the ancient centres of Christianity today and declared his strongest support yet for an independent Palestinian state

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Rahm Emanuel is a good man and a good friend of Israel, but in a highly publicized recent statement he linked American efforts to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons to Israeli efforts toward establishing a Palestinian state. This is dangerous.

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The first official figures released by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) of the casualties inflicted by the three-week campaign found that a total of 309 Palestinian civilians were killed.

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"I'm asking for your help. I would like to meet an Israeli woman for marriage purposes," Abdullah, a resident of Saudi Arabia, said in a recent letter to the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem. "I have heard that the Israeli women are very smart and beautiful," he added.

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Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas has conducted an international campaign in recent weeks aimed at the diplomatic isolation of a right-wing government headed by Likud chairman Benjamin Netanyahu.

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"The best way to achieve territorial continuity between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank is by digging a tunnel that would connect the two areas, Defense Minister and Labor party head Ehud Barak said on Monday.

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This must-see video exposes some of the underlying issues that have already made the two-state solution impossible according to many.

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"Two new polls show that Americans strongly back Israel over Hamas in the ongoing conflict in Gaza.

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Puppetmasters, Puppets and Pain - Hamas Has to Go

Clearly: Israel, as much as any other country, has a right to defend itself. Clearly: Hamas is the entity threatening Israel. Clearly: The civilians in Gaza are trapped in the middle and ultimately are enduring the most suffering. Unclear: Are military responses an effective defe …

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...."This attack is the final Israeli push to extinguish a Palestinian state and crush or expel the Palestinian people. The images of dead Palestinian children, lined up as if asleep on the floor of the main hospital in Gaza, are a metaphor for the future.

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"Ending the war in Iraq is the first step toward restoring the United States' global leadership," Mrs Clinton wrote a year ago in an article in Foreign Affairs magazine. US troops should be brought home and stability restored to the region, she said.

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"You were in the concentration camps, and I can't believe that you are allowing the creation of such a camp yourselves."

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"Qatari paper reports Israel will grant up to 20,000 refugees right of return, transfer east Jerusalem neighborhoods to Palestinian sovereignty in deal steadily forming between State, Palestinians"

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It is a damning indication of just how bad things have become in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip when Fatah militants there must look to Israel for protection from their Palestinian rivals.

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"Some of the Fatah loyalists who fled from the Gaza Strip to the Palestinian Authority following Hamas' takeover in June 2007 described Saturday's events in the Shijaiyeh neighborhood of Gaza City - four Hamas dead and 80 others injured - as "poetic justice."

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" Gaza Strip - Hamas forces battled Fatah-linked fighters with mortars and machine guns in a crowded Gaza neighborhood Saturday, leaving at least nine dead in the worst Palestinian infighting in nine months.

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The educational activities provided to children on a Hamas paramilitary camp in Gaza are probably unlike those of any other summer scheme in the world.

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"..While the Palestinian political world remains in turmoil, the West Bank still struggles for normality — and achieves it, but only selectively.

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"When Israel seems guilty of killing Palestinians to The New York Times, the newspaper is eager to trumpet the story across its front page.

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Normal parents would try to get their children as far away from danger as possible. But many Palestinians do just the opposite-- merely for propaganda purposes! This incredible video clearly documents this barbaric practice:

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"Arab nations, especially wealthy Gulf states, can give "far more" assistance to the Palestinians, Sen. Barack Obama wrote in a letter to President George W. Bush Tuesday in what was effectively a position paper on Israel for the presumptive Democratic US presidential nominee.

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