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Palestinian Authority prime minister resigns
This post has been corrected. See note below for details.JERUSALEM -- Embattled Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad resigned late Saturday after struggling for years against political rivals and lackluster public support. Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who in recent months had also clashed...Tags: Finance, Palestine, Salam Fayyad, Economy, Business and Finance, West Bank
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Abbas needs an heir apparent
President Obama's visit to the Middle East next month is widely billed as an earnest attempt to double down on diplomacy and revive the moribund peace process between the Israelis and Palestinians. Unfortunately, the odds are stacked against the...
Tags: Yasser Arafat, Palestine, Salam Fayyad, West Bank, Government
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Said Musa Maragha dies at 86; Arafat ally became an enemy
Said Musa Maragha, a Palestinian military commander who rose through the ranks of the Palestine Liberation Organization to become a trusted lieutenant of PLO leader Yasser Arafat, then broke away to lead Syrian-backed Palestinian rebels who besieged...
Tags: Yasser Arafat, Palestine, Wars and Interventions, Fatah, Israel
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'The New Republic' by Lionel Shriver
Tribune NewspapersIt takes guts to write a satire about terrorism — and Lionel Shriver has guts. She has already published biting novels about the failings of the U.S. healthcare system ("So Much for That") and a school shooter ("We Need to Talk About Kevin")....Tags: Journalism, News Media, The Washington Post, Stephen Fry, Book
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Palestinians vow cooperation in Cairo unity talks but gaps remain
World NowPalestinians, Hamas, Fatah, reconciliation: Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas took another step toward reconciliation Thursday but remain deeply divided on key issues.... -
Kinsley: Middle East states of mind
In November 1947, shortly after the United Nations voted for partition of the Holy Land into separate Arab and Jewish states, Chaim Weizmann was cited by the New York Times as saying that "the most important work now was to build Palestine."
What? To...Tags: Civil Unrest, Palestine, Judaism, Chaim Weizmann, Gaza Crisis (2008)
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The danger of politicizing textbooks
Opinion L.A.Last week we wrote on the editorial page about California’s decision to require teachers and textbooks to include some sort of positive message about gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people in their lessons. We opposed that decision -- not... -
PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES: Abbas not deterred by U.S. threats regarding Palestinian state recognition
Babylon & BeyondMahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority, does not seem deterred by U.S. threats of financial cuts or political castigation if he proceeds with plans to ask the U.N. for recognition of a Palestinian state in September. Abbas Wednesday... -
Who made the cut for Obama's third Ramadan Iftar dinner
Top of the TicketFull Text: Obama continues the tradition of hosting a dinner after sunset, talks of the 9/11 tragedy.... -
PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES: Legal opinion muddies U.N. statehood bid
Babylon & BeyondAs the Palestinian Authority is getting ready to ask the United Nations to accept the West Bank and Gaza Strip within the 1967 borders as a member state, a legal opinion by an Oxford University international-law professor has provoked second thoughts... -
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Rick Perry on Obama's Israel policy: 'Naive, arrogant, misguided and dangerous'
Top of the TicketRick Perry, Republican presidential candidate: Full text of his remarks on Israel and Palestine....
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