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Growing number in Gaza Strip are in no mood to celebrate
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Los Angeles Times by Edmund Sanders - (Analysis) December 9, 2012 - 1:00am As tens of thousands of Gazans celebrated Hamas' 25th anniversary Saturday, Mohamed Mustafa Abdallah huddled by a small fire in a cinder-block shed, assembled from scraps of wreckage from his bombed-out wholesale food business a few feet away. |
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Hamas leader vows never to recognise Israel
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Reuters (Analysis) December 8, 2012 - 1:00am Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal, making his first ever visit to the Gaza Strip, vowed on Saturday never to recognise Israel and said his Islamist group would never abandon its claim to all Israeli territory. |
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Leader Celebrates Founding of Hamas With Defiant Speech
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times by Steven Erlanger - (Analysis) December 8, 2012 - 1:00am |
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Palestinians to launch 6-month initiative to restart talks with Israel
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz (Analysis) December 10, 2012 - 1:00am Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said Monday that the Palestinian Authority plans to launch a new initiative to renew negotiations with Israel, which would include the release of prisoners and a halt to settlement construction. |
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N.Y. shul’s rabbis ‘regret’ email praising U.N. Palestine vote
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) December 6, 2012 - 1:00am NEW YORK (JTA) -- Rabbis at B'nai Jeshurun are expressing "regret" over an email sent out by the prominent New York synagogue praising the United Nations vote to elevate Palestinians to non-member state status. |
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Palestinian refugees increasingly drawn into Syrian war
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from BBC News by Yolande Knell - December 6, 2012 - 1:00am Among the diverse sectarian and ethnic groups caught up in the uprising in Syria there are nearly 500,000 Palestinian refugees. Most have tried to stay on the sidelines of the fighting but in recent months it has reached several refugee camps. |
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The Arab villages that were; a new Israeli guidebook
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz by Moshe Gilad - December 7, 2012 - 1:00am A round white dome stands in the middle of the vacation village at Dor Beach, near Caesarea. I've visited this place dozens of times but never noticed the sheikh's tomb on the well-tended lawn. Nor did I remember the large stone building right on the shoreline, a few dozen meters from the water, opposite the bobbing fishing boats. |
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Israel's education ministry 'suspends program' over Palestinian novel
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency December 5, 2012 - 1:00am BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) – Israel's Ministry of Education has suspended a literature program for fifth graders because a Palestinian novel was on its syllabus, Israeli media reported Wednesday. |
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Over 20 hurt in Hebron as soldiers clash with PA police
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency December 6, 2012 - 1:00am HEBRON (Ma'an) -- More than 20 Palestinians were wounded in clashes with Israeli forces in central Hebron on Thursday afternoon, after a skirmish between Israeli troops and Palestinian police. |