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I'm not holding my breath for a popular uprising in Gaza against Hamas, but I found this article by Avi Issacharoff and Amos Harel inte...

BY AMOS If the recent unrest in Jerusalem spirals out of control, the international news media will surely rush to find some symbolic spark...

BY AMOS Photo Source: Wikimedia Commons Dubai's police chief, Lt.-Gen. Dahi Khalfan Tamim, has been indefatigably reporting his new disc...

BY AMOS Jimmy Carter is in Damascus today and had the following to say after his meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and before ch...

BY AMOS Over the weekend Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman gave a long interview to the Austrian Kleine Zeitun g, based in Graz, St...

More and more reports are appearing in the international press about dissatisfaction with Hamas in Gaza, though these are balanced by quotat...

Hamas  agrees  to allow Fatah forces to patrol Rafah crossing (Ha'aretz): The London-based Asharq al-Awsat reported Saturday that Hamas ...

Corriere della Sera  reported today that Palestinian civilians are accusing Hamas of having prevented civilians from fleeing areas under att...

The bizarre diplomatic spat sparked by Olmert's annoucement that he had intervened with Bush personally to overrule Rice should not be b...

From Ha'aretz : Said Sayyam and Salah Abu Shreich, two senior Hamas figures, were killed in an air strike in Jabaliya. The home of anoth...

Egyptian FM Ahmed Abu El Gheit (Photo: NATO ) Hamas's press conference did not yield a major breakthrough for Israel. Although Hamas see...

According to reports in the Israeli media, Hamas is close to agreeing to a cease fire that might meet some of Israel's conditions. A sta...

Map showing the Philadelphi Corridor Although the IDF build-up on the border to Gaza is continuing, there are signs that Israel is hesitan...

Officers of the EU Border Assistance Mission at Rafah at a Medal ceremony.  T he mission has been on standby since June 9, 2007 ( EU BAM Raf...

These are the details of the Mubarak proposal announced at Sharm, as reported in Ha'aretz . My translation / paraphrase with intersperse...

Philadelphi Corridor Current objectives: 1. Get the international community to force a settlement on Hamas under which it commits to a cessa...

Turkish PM Erdogan Israel's "Operation Cast Lead" has generated a number of interesting diplomatic moves and rifts that give u...