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Obama team faces trial by fire in Israel-Hamas conflict

 

Published 1/17/2009 at L.A. Times - Politics

The Gaza strife will quickly test the new president's national security team, which is still missing key players. > For years, Democratic leaders excoriated the Bush administration for what they saw as its long neglect of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, vowing that should they win the presidency, they would play a far more active role in brokering Middle East peace. (link)

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