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At certain moments, while watching a scene from a program broadcast by Palestinian television on October 25 of last year, it is difficult to believe that this is the official television channel of the Palestinian Authority and the PLO, and not that of Ha
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Bryan Marquard can be reached at bmarquardglobe.com. Across the Middle East, Anthony Shadid placed himself in mortal danger again and again, covering wars and conflicts and filing on deadline prose shimmering with poetic intensity. Less than a year ago,
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On a gray Sunday, Boston Globe reporter Anthony Shadid made his way to the epicenter of one of the world's hottest stories--the Israeli assault on Yasser Arafat's compound in the West Bank town of Ramallah. Shadid wore a white flak jacket emblazoned with
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There is one scenario that I and others are not taking into account in predicting that President Obama will win — and possibly win in a landslide — in November: An Israeli air strike on Iranian nuclear facilities that would plunge the Middle East into wa
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STORY HIGHLIGHTS Journalist Anthony Shadid was a mentor, colleague and friend He won two Pulitzer prizes for international reporting CNN journalist Chelsea J. Carter is "struggling with news of his death" in Syria Shadid edited Carter in Los Angeles; the
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A LOT CAN BE LEARNED about the pain and punishment wrought by the Israeli-Palestinian war by looking at the arms with which it is fought. When I first visited the Middle East in 1988 as a student journalist spending a summer in Jerusalem, I landed in the
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Ah, Friday. If the weekdays were characters from Downton Abbey, you know that Friday would be one of the hot Crawley sisters. I'm picking Mary, with Sybil being a carefree Saturday and Edith (aka The Other One), plodding along as a largely featureless Tu
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Two rival Palestinian organizations, Hamas and Fatah, agreed on a power-sharing accord earlier this month. Experts say the new agreement is another step forward in healing the rift between the two organizations, whose territories are separated by Israel.
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Regarding Andrew C. Mills' letter on Israel and Iran, he is correct thatIsrael's long-term security can be achieved only with a comprehensive settlement with the Palestinians ("Israel's future hinges on compromise, not attacks," Feb. 11). An attack on Ir
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This is the first in a series of interviews he gave to Al Jazeera since his return. Al Jazeera: Who are the armed opposition? Nir Rosen: The formation of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) was declared publicly in the summer of 2011, and has been endorsed by the
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Tehran -- Iran's leaders urged the Hamas prime minister of Gaza to continue the Islamic militant group's resistance against Israel and promised support, state TV reported Sunday. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told Hamas' Ismail Haniyeh that Iran
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The car bomb attack which wounded the wife of the Israeli official to New Delhi, along with an attempted attack on the Israeli embassy in Georgia serves as a stark reminder that Hezbollah may not have given up on avenging the death of Imad Mughniyeh. Mug
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Iran's leaders urged the Hamas prime minister of Gaza to continue the Islamic militant group's resistance against Israel and promised support, state TV reported on Sunday. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told Hamas' Ismail Haniyeh that Iran would a
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February 12, 2012 — TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's leaders urged the Hamas prime minister of Gaza to continue the Islamic militant group's resistance against Israel and promised support, state TV reported on Sunday. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told
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TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran's supreme leader has urged the Hamas prime minister of Gaza to continue the Islamist militant group's resistance against Israel. Iranian state TV quoted Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as telling Ismail Haniyeh on Sunday that people expect Ha
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On Monday afternoon, the Palestinians destroyed officially whatever was left of the concept of a peace process with Israel. When PA Chairman and Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas signed a deal with Hamas terror-master Khaled Mashaal in Doha, Qatar, the notion t
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Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas told the U.S. special envoy to the Middle East, David Hale, that the reconciliation between his Fatah movement and Hamas does not contradict with the peace process, the PA-based WAFA news agency reported. Abba
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February 07, 2012 “ASI” — A Quick Listing of The United States’ Record of Veto Use at the United Nations (UN): 1972–2011* 1972 Condemns Israel for killing hundreds of people in Syria and Lebanon in air raids. 1973 Affirms the rights of the Palestinians a
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Unlike his predecessor, Yasser Arafat, the current Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas, is not known for hoarding power or being authoritarian. Abbas will most likely end his revolutionary/professional career in retirement and not in a direct struggle with
About Yasser Arafat
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Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini (Arabic: محمد عبد الرؤوف عرفات القدوة الحسيني) (August 24, 1929–November 11, 2004), popularly known as Yasser Arafat (ياسر عرفات) or by his kunya Abu Ammar (أبو عمار), was a Palestinian leader. He was Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, President of the Palestinian... Full Article
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