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Mahmoud Abbas Is Again Insisting on Failure
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(Washington Post) Editorial - In a meeting with President Obama last March, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas refused to accept a U.S.-brokered "framework" for the creation of a Palestinian state. Instead, Abbas is now pushing yet another quixotic attempt to have the UN Security Council impose Palestinian terms for a settlement on Israel. Over the weekend, the language of the Palestinian resolu
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Israel Mobilizes to Rescue Palestinian Baby
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(Ynet News) Itay Blumenthal - A six-month-old Palestinian boy was crossing the Allenby Bridge with his family on Saturday to receive medical care in Jordan when he suffered what doctors think was a heart attack. "We found an unconscious child with no heart rate," said Magen David Adom paramedics Hashan Aala and Nader Komz. IDF medical forces that arrived at the scene decided that the boy needed u
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Hamas Drills Cross-Border Attacks on IDF Posts
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(Jerusalem Post) Yaakov Lappin - Hamas is in the midst of an extensive training program simulating cross-border raids on IDF positions near the Gaza border, the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center said Monday. On Saturday, Hamas released a video of a Dec. 23 exercise showing dozens of masked terrorists simulating an attack on IDF positions. One of the scenes showed a mock kidnapping of
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Who's to Blame for Middle East Peace Stall?
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(Commentary) Michael Rubin -Increasingly, Washington and even more so European capitals are signaling that diplomatic agreements are empty promises and that outside guarantees are meaningless. This was shown most recently as Iran's Revolutionary Guards have moved into southern Lebanon alongside Hizbullah, taking photos and tweeting about their presence. The Iranian presence violates the terms of
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Corruption Hampers Effort to Rebuild Gaza
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(Guardian-UK) Peter Beaumont - A UN-designed mechanism to control the supply of building materials for the reconstruction of Gaza after this summer's war - and to prevent them falling into the hands of Hamas - has been widely corrupted. During a recent visit to cement warehouses in Gaza, the Guardian saw cement being resold a few feet outside the warehouse at up to four times the cost within min
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Hamas: Qatar Hasn't Cut Off Our Financial Aid
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(Jerusalem Post) Khaled Abu Toameh - Hamas denied on Sunday that Qatar has decided to halt financial aid. A Kuwaiti newspaper claimed that Qatar has temporarily halted financial aid to Hamas in wake of the emirate's rapprochement with Egypt.
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Burned Israeli Girl Faces "Long, Complicated" Rehabilitation
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(Ynet News) Yaron Kelner - Ayala Shapira, 11, who was seriously burned by a firebomb thrown by Palestinians on Thursday, remains sedated and on a respirator. "The first steps will be to clean the deep burns, especially in the neck. She also has swelling in her throat, so in order to prevent choking we will enable her to breathe from a different area," said Professor Eyal Winkler, the Director of
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Israel Arrests Palestinians Who Firebombed Israeli Vehicle
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(Jerusalem Post) Yaakov Lappin - The IDF arrested two Palestinians who firebombed an Israeli vehicle on Thursday, critically wounding an 11-year-old girl and injuring her father. The two, from the West Bank village of Azun near Nablus, confessed to carrying out the attack.
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