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Is peace out of reach?
AARON DAVID MILLER, who served at the State Department as an advisor to six secretaries of State, is a scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center. His forthcoming book, "The Much Too Promised Land," will beYASSER ARAFAT was the first to arrive. He came by presidential helicopter, his black and white kaffiyeh flapping in the cool evening breeze. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and President Clinton arrived the next day. And then there were three, a trio of...Tags: Diplomacy, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Government, National Government, Gaza Crisis (2008)
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Israel launches offensive into Gaza
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIsraeli forces Saturday made their deepest and deadliest incursion into the Gaza Strip in years, attacking Palestinian rocket-launching squads with tanks and warplanes but also inflicting a heavy loss of civilian life in the densely populated enclave....Tags: Metal and Mineral, Diplomacy, Egypt, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Building Material
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What's Israel trying to accomplish in Gaza?
![<i>Today's topic: What is Israel's strategic objective in this operation? Is it merely trying to stop the rocketing, is it trying to eliminate Hamas or is it trying to do something else? And can it work? Previously, Bisharat and Phillips <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oew-bisharat-phillips7-2009jan07%2C0%2C4539433.story">discussed</a> the high Palestinian civilian casualties in the Gaza Strip.</i>](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2009-01/44427440-08153727.jpg "<i>Today's topic: What is Israel's strategic objective in this operation? Is it merely trying to stop the rocketing, is it trying to eliminate Hamas or is it trying to do something else? And can it work? Previously, Bisharat and Phillips <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oew-bisharat-phillips7-2009jan07%2C0%2C4539433.story\">discussed</a> the high Palestinian civilian casualties in the Gaza Strip.</i>")
Today's topic: What is Israel's strategic objective in this operation? Is it merely trying to stop the rocketing, is it trying to eliminate Hamas or is it trying to do something else? And can it work? Previously, Bisharat and Phillips discussed the high...Tags: Elections, International Relations, Diplomacy, Government, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Hamas speaks
![While Americans may believe that the current violence in Gaza began Dec. 27, in fact Palestinians have been dying from bombardments for many weeks. On Nov. 4, when the Israeli-Palestinian truce was still in effect but global attention was turned to the U.S. elections, Israel launched a "preemptive" airstrike on Gaza, alleging intelligence about an imminent operation to capture Israeli soldiers; more assaults took place throughout the month.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2009-01/44372552-05164431.jpg "While Americans may believe that the current violence in Gaza began Dec. 27, in fact Palestinians have been dying from bombardments for many weeks. On Nov. 4, when the Israeli-Palestinian truce was still in effect but global attention was turned to the U.S. elections, Israel launched a "preemptive\" airstrike on Gaza, alleging intelligence about an imminent operation to capture Israeli soldiers; more assaults took place throughout the month.")
While Americans may believe that the current violence in Gaza began Dec. 27, in fact Palestinians have been dying from bombardments for many weeks. On Nov. 4, when the Israeli-Palestinian truce was still in effect but global attention was turned to the U....Tags: Elections, Civil Unrest, Barack Obama, Hamas, White House
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A primer on Gaza and Israel
The conflict between Israel and Hamas seems no closer to resolution. Here are answers to some of the key questions associated with the crisis earlier this year. How did we get here? On Dec. 27, Israel began a week of airstrikes against the Hamas...Tags: Elections, Iraq War (2003-2011), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Government, Egypt
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Senator helped fund organization that rejects 'racist' Israel's existence
South Florida Sun-SentinelJERUSALEM - The board of a nonprofit organization on which Sen. Barack Obama served as a paid director alongside a confessed domestic terrorist granted funding to a controversial Arab group that mourns the establishment of Israel as a "catastrophe" and...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Guerrilla Activity, Gaza Crisis (2008), New Mexico, Society
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Anatomy of an about-face on Iran
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterLast spring, as U.S. intelligence agencies worked to complete an assessment of Iran's nuclear weapons program, they were firmly on track to reach the same conclusion as previous reports: Tehran was bent on building the bomb. But within weeks, there was...Tags: Iraq War (2003-2011), Defense Equipment, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Wars and Interventions, Ehud Olmert
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The next leader of Israel?
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIsraeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's decision to quit after his centrist Kadima party chooses a new leader in September could trigger early national elections. These are some of his possible successors: Tzipi Livni Foreign minister and chief negotiator...Tags: Parliament, Elections, Civil Unrest, Labor Legislation, Government
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Lifetime Monitors High School 'Election'
Zap2It.comPolitical strategist James Carville has advised the campaigns of Bill Clinton and former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, among others. His wife, Mary Matalin, has worked for both Bush White Houses. Now, they're bringing all their political skills...Tags: Alexander Payne, Elections, American Idol (tv program), HBO (tv network), Drama (genre)
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Sharon's toughest decision
Sun Foreign StaffKFAR DAROM, Gaza Strip - Soon after Yamima Cohen Ayoubi moved to this Jewish settlement in the midst of Palestinian cities and sand dunes, Ariel Sharon paid a visit. It was 1989 and Sharon - the former general, master builder of Israel's settlements...Tags: Elections, Metal and Mineral, Diplomacy, Yasser Arafat, Sociology
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Israel's unhappy birthday
Israel at 60 is a sad place. It is sad despite the prosperity that is apparent at every turn. By most Western political and economic standards, the country is a phenomenal success story. It is one of the few states created after World War II to have...Tags: Demographics, Yasser Arafat, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Armed Forces, Death
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Rice: Israeli growth saps peace bid
The SwampPalestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, right, and Condoleezza Rice arrive at a press conference at Abbas' headquarters on Sunday in the West Bank city of Ramallah. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) By Joel Greenberg JERUSALEM -- On her sixth Middle East trip...Tags: Civil Unrest, Diplomacy, Corporate Crime, Government, National Government
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