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Thursday, September 02, 2010   20:31 GMT    
Mideast & Mediterranean

LEBANON
Rich Feast Through Month of Fasting
By Mona Alami
BEIRUT - Although not a celebration in the traditional sense, Ramadan in Lebanon is a time of joy for many, during which families reconnect and share their wealth with the poor. But in this country of extremes, not everyone has the luxury of celebrating the holy month.
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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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US-MIDEAST
Light At End of Tunnel Elusive, Despite Obama’s Efforts
Analysis by Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama will try this week to underline his progress in extricating the United States from the morass his predecessor's "global war on terror" in the Greater Middle East.
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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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RIGHTS-BAHRAIN
Law on Young Offenders Needs Fixing - Critics
By Suad Hamada
MANAMA - It was his second time to be caught stealing a car, so Turki was meted a jail term of five years. But the young repeat offender was only 17 years old at the time of his arrest, and therefore was still considered a minor under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
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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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