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Is peace out of reach?
AARON DAVID MILLER, who served at the State Department as an advisor to six secretaries of State, is a scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center. His forthcoming book, "The Much Too Promised Land," will beYASSER ARAFAT was the first to arrive. He came by presidential helicopter, his black and white kaffiyeh flapping in the cool evening breeze. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and President Clinton arrived the next day. And then there were three, a trio of...Tags: Government, Gaza Strip, Shimon Peres, Palestine, Gaza Crisis (2008)
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Israel launches offensive into Gaza
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIsraeli forces Saturday made their deepest and deadliest incursion into the Gaza Strip in years, attacking Palestinian rocket-launching squads with tanks and warplanes but also inflicting a heavy loss of civilian life in the densely populated enclave....Tags: Massacres, Gaza Strip, Television, Egypt, Gaza Crisis (2008)
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What's Israel trying to accomplish in Gaza?
Today's topic: What is Israel's strategic objective in this operation? Is it merely trying to stop the rocketing, is it trying to eliminate Hamas or is it trying to do something else? And can it work? Previously, Bisharat and Phillips discussed the high...Tags: Palestinian Liberation Organization, Government, Gaza Strip, Palestine, Gaza Crisis (2008)
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Hamas speaks
While Americans may believe that the current violence in Gaza began Dec. 27, in fact Palestinians have been dying from bombardments for many weeks. On Nov. 4, when the Israeli-Palestinian truce was still in effect but global attention was turned to the U....Tags: Hamas, Government, Crimes, Gaza Strip, National Security
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A primer on Gaza and Israel
The conflict between Israel and Hamas seems no closer to resolution. Here are answers to some of the key questions associated with the crisis earlier this year. How did we get here? On Dec. 27, Israel began a week of airstrikes against the Hamas...Tags: Government, Gaza Strip, Egypt, Gaza Crisis (2008), Heads of State
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Anatomy of an about-face on Iran
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterLast spring, as U.S. intelligence agencies worked to complete an assessment of Iran's nuclear weapons program, they were firmly on track to reach the same conclusion as previous reports: Tehran was bent on building the bomb. But within weeks, there was...Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Military Equipment, Police Investigations, Defense Equipment, International Military Interventions
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Israel's unhappy birthday
Israel at 60 is a sad place. It is sad despite the prosperity that is apparent at every turn. By most Western political and economic standards, the country is a phenomenal success story. It is one of the few states created after World War II to have...Tags: Gaza Strip, Palestine, Nobel Prize Awards, Gaza Crisis (2008), Demographics
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For some Palestinians, one state with Israel is better than none
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersFrustrated by years of on-and-off peace talks with Israel, Palestinians are losing hope for an independent homeland, and some are proposing a radically different cause: a shared state with equal rights for Palestinians and Jews. A "two-state solution"...Tags: Government, Gaza Strip, Palestine, Gaza Crisis (2008), Political Systems
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Israel's crisis of leadership
Israel is in the throes of a grave crisis of leadership. General elections are scheduled for Feb. 10, and there is no widely respected or overwhelmingly popular leader in sight. Even with the existential threat of a nuclear Iran looming over the country,...Tags: Government, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Massacres, Shimon Peres, Amos Oz
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Israel's options in Gaza
In launching airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, Israel has exercised its right to self-defense. Since the collapse Dec. 19 of a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, the Palestinian movement that controls the territory, residents of southern Israel have been...Tags: Palestinian Liberation Organization, Hamas, Gaza Strip, Condoleezza Rice, Palestine
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Israel can't bomb its way to peace
It's a new year in an old and bloody world.
In Israel, politicians jockeying for power have launched the most lethal military assault on Palestinian territory in decades. Israel has justified its bombardment of Gaza on the grounds that Hamas broke a...Tags: Government, New Year's Day, Career and Workplace, Heads of State, Ariel Sharon
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Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat Dies
Times Staff WriterYasser Arafat, guerrilla chieftain turned statesman who juggled armed resistance and political diplomacy, yet failed to achieve his lifelong dream of creating a Palestinian state, died today. He was 75. Tayeb Abdel Rahim, a top Arafat aide, confirmed...Tags: Robin Hood, Gaza Strip, Oslo (Norway), Benjamin Netanyahu, Ariel Sharon
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