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  78.19

What Gaza Means For Obama Policy

It is hard to predict what the situation in Israel and Gaza will be on Jan. 20, but it is clearly Israel's intention to neutralize Hamas and quickly try to engage Mahm...

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  62.3

Seumas Milne: Israel and the west will pay a price for Gaza's bloodbath

By SEUMAS MILNE

Over the last 12 days, Israel has inflicted a bloodbath on the Gaza Strip that matches the darkest days of the Iraq war. Backed to the hilt by the US author of that ca...

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  49.77

Hamas overthrow is key to Gaza ceasefire

With international public opinion increasingly impatient to see the fighting in Gaza end, diplomatic efforts to achieve a ceasefire are finally getting under way. Isra...

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  48.26

Israel considers stepping up Gaza offensive

Israel's most senior political leaders were meeting in Tel Aviv today to decide whether to expand their devastating offensive in Gaza or consider the first outlines of...

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  44.24

Gaza's day of carnage - 40 dead as Israelis bomb two UN schools

Israel's assault on Gaza has exacted the bloodiest toll of civilian lives yet, when the bombing of UN schools being used as refugee centres and of housing killed more ...

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  43.89

Behind the battle lines, fight for ceasefire gathers pace

By IAN BLACK

Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, claimed last night a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip was "not far off" as he unexpectedly returned to Egypt after talks in Syria, wh...

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  38.16

Analysis: Fatah, Hamas face internal divisions

The Israeli assault on Gaza has deepened the tensions between Hamas and the ruling Fatah party of Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas. But the attack also has revealed...

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  12.6

Analysis: Abbas tries to regain foothold in Gaza

With Hamas weakened by Israel's Gaza offensive, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is trying to regain a foothold in the territory he lost to the Islamic militants in...

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  12.39

Analysis: Abbas tries to regain foothold in Gaza

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) -- With Hamas weakened by Israel's Gaza offensive, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is trying to regain a foothold in the territory he ...

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Struggle for self-defence and the struggle for Palestinian primacy

As Israeli troops marched into Gaza alongside tanks and under cover of heavy artillery fire on Saturday night, Hamas seemed to goad them on. A spokesman appeared in a ...

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