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MIDEAST
Pessimistic About Peace, Yet…
Analysis by Jerrold Kessel and Peter Klochendler
JERUSALEM - As President Obama on Wednesday initiates the ninth U.S. attempt in the last 30 years to bring about a final Palestinian-Israeli peace agreement, expectations are low and pessimism is high.
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MIDEAST
Netanyahu Ignores President, and Wife
By Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler
TEl AVIV - Thousands of Israelis have protested in a central park here demanding that their government revoke its decision to deport 400 children of migrant workers.
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EGYPT
Military Court Sentences Civilian Workers
By Cam McGrath
CAIRO - An Egyptian military court handed down sentences Monday in the trial of eight civilian factory workers who led a protest against deteriorating safety conditions in an army-owned factory. Rights groups say the trial should never have taken place.
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MIDEAST
Bureaucracy Limits Rights of Palestinian Women
By Mel Frykberg
RAMALLAH - As Hamas cracks down on the rights of Palestinian women in the Gaza Strip, their sisters in the occupied West Bank are slowly gaining ground. But a bureaucracy, that is sometimes supported by foreign aid, is crippling these advances.
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MIDEAST
'McCarthyism' Rises in Israel
Analysis by Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler
JERUSALEM - Rightwing Israeli groups financially supported by Jewish and fundamentalist Christian groups from abroad are on a campaign to undermine free thought in Israeli universities. Collaterally, a move is under way by right-wing parties in the Knesset, Israel's parliament, to limit the freedom of action of civil and human rights-minded NGOs.
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MIDEAST
This Math Class May Figure Out Israel
By Eva Bartlett
AL ZAHARA, Central Gaza Strip - In a bright and spacious classroom, with plants overflowing in the courtyard outside, six students lean forward at their desks looking at the 10-digit addition they are asked to make. One student stands before the numbers on the chalkboard and a red and yellow-beaded abacus. But her attention is on the abacus she visualises in her mind.
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MIDEAST
Palestinian Patients Suffer From Political Rivalry
By Mel Frykberg
RAMALLAH - Cancer patient Ahmed Abu Fuad needs chemotherapy to survive. Muhammad Subeh needs an eye-transplant while paramedic Alaa Sarhan desperately needs surgery to remove shrapnel from his body. But these Gazans are unable to leave the area to seek the required medical treatment elsewhere, and it is not because of the Israeli siege.
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MIDEAST
Darkness Dawns at Ramadan
By Eva Bartlett
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip - "It's been days without electricity and water. We can't do anything, and it's unbearably hot now." Abu Fouad, 83, speaks of the power cuts plaguing all of the Gaza Strip.
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ISRAEL-LEBANON
U.N. Treads Cautiously in Probe of Border Firefight
By Jennifer Leong
UNITED NATIONS - Three weeks after a fatal exchange of fire between Israel and Lebanon along the U.N.-demarcated Blue Line, the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) has yet to make recommendations on easing tension at the border.
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MIDEAST
Stitching Together a Living, Somehow
By Mel Frykberg
GAZA CITY - Just off Omar Al-Mukhtar Street, Gaza City's main thoroughfare, in a narrow, sandy alley way is a little second-hand clothing shop. In the dimly lit store, with only intermittent electricity for some hours a day at best, sits a single battered and aging sewing machine.
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New Book Assembles Eyewitness Accounts from Mavi Marmara
By Kumari Karandawala
NEW YORK - A growing number of activists is contradicting the claims of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) regarding the Gaza Freedom Flotilla debacle in May, including a large faction of both Israeli and U.S. Jews.
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MIDEAST
Barriers Rise Between Ramadan Gatherings
By Mel Frykberg
AZZUN ATMA, Occupied Northern West Bank - For seven years Majda Abdul Qader Sheikh, 38, has not been allowed to visit the home of her parents, just a few hundred metres from her house.
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MIDEAST
Uprooted Villagers Hold Fast During Ramadan
By Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler
JERUSALEM - On the eve of the start of Ramadan last week, Israeli police demolished the Bedouin village of al-Araqib in the Negev desert. It was the third time within two weeks that the village had been razed.
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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.