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Why China Can't Solve the Israel-Palestine Conflict Having emerged as an economic colossus and military power, the People's Republic of China achieves what other...
Hamas Shaves Heads of Gaza Youths with Long Hair
(GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip) — Police in Hamas-ruled Gaza have started grabbing young men with long or gel-styled spiky hair off the streets, bundling them into...
Hamas Re-Elects Mashaal As Its Leader
(CAIRO) — Two Hamas officials say the Islamic militant group has re-elected Khaled Mashaal as its leader. Mashaal, 56, who has run the Palestinian movement...
Palestinian Journalist Jailed for Abbas Photo
(RAMALLAH, West Bank) — A West Bank appeals court on Thursday upheld a one-year prison term for a Palestinian journalist who had a photo on his Facebook page...
Hamas Leader Speaks on Violence, Negotiations and Peace
Moussa Abu Marzook, the deputy leader of the radical Palestinian movement, in an interview, says that he's ready to accept a Palestinian state - but still won't...
Photo Essays
Born Under Fire: The Dawn of Israel, 1948
Sixty-five years ago this week, in the midst of a civil war and at the tail end of the decades-long British Mandate of Palestine, the state of Israel was born...
Mahmoud Abbas: Pressing the Flesh for Peace
After replacing Yasser Arafat as Palestinian Authority President in 2004, Abbas was seen as the moderate who would close the deal with Israel. Since then,...
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The Road Map
Can the major players keep the peace process between Israel and Palestine on track this time?
Top 10 Assassination Plots
Dubai officials issued arrest warrants for 11 suspects alleged to be behind the Jan. 20 murder of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a top official in the Palestinian militant...
Articles from Around the Web
Palestinians in West Bank's Area C suffer in limbo
Residents largely cut off from the Palestinian Authority say Israel is trying to drive them off the land by demolishing homes and withholding services. MALEH, West Bank -- In...
World Briefing | Middle East: Google's Palestinian Home Page Recognizes' Palestine'
Five months after the United Nations General Assembly voted to upgrade Palestine's status to a nonmember observer state, Google has followed suit. ...
Palestinian Leader, Mahmoud Abbas, Seeks Support of China Mahmoud Abbas, the president...
Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, arrived in China just ahead of the Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu, but there were no plans for a meeting between...
Hamas rejects Arab League peace initiative
Palestinian movement says revised plan opening up for land swaps is a concession other Arabs are not authorised to make. ...
