timesonline.co.uk - 1/30/2009
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Hamas must somehow be brought into the Middle East peace process because the policy of isolating Gaza in the quest for a settlement will not work, Tony Blair has told The Times . The former prime minister implicitly criticises the strategy followed by the Bush Administration and Israel of ...
michaeltotten.com - 2/1/2009
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Khaled Abu Toameh is not your typical Palestinian
journalist. He began his career at one of Yasser...
Arafat's newspapers and today he writes for the Jerusalem Post . He has produced video for European TV stations, and even blogged for a while at ...
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A Minority Report from the West Bank and Gaza
news.yahoo.com - 2/4/2009
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JERUSALEM A U.N. spokesman says Hamas police in
Gaza have seized thousands of blankets and food parcels...
meant for needy residents. Spokesman Christopher Gunness says Hamas police raided a U.N. warehouse in Gaza City on Tuesday evening. He says police ...
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UN says Hamas seized Gaza food aid and blankets - Yahoo! ...
ynetnews.com - 1/31/2009
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Ynet learns that thousands of Global Jihad supporters
currently active in Gaza Strip; most are Hamas, Popular...
Resistance Committees members who objected to lull, any kind of compromise, Gaza source says Ali Waked Thousands of global Jihad supporters, ...
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Thousands of al-Qaeda supporters active in Gaza - Israel ...
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Times Online Exclusive - Tony Blair: Time To Elevate Hamas To Direct Partner In Peace
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Times Online:
Hamas must somehow be brought into the Middle East peace process because the policy of isolating Gaza in the quest for a settlement will not work, Tony Blair has told The Times.
The former prime minister implicitly criticises the strategy followed by the Bush Administration and Israel of focusing all peace and reconstruction efforts on the West Bank. “It was half of what we needed,” he said.
In an interview with Ginny Dougary in the Saturday Magazine, Mr Blair says that the strategy of “pushing Gaza aside” and trying to ...
Hamas must be brought into peace process, says Tony Blair
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... state on the West Bank was never going to work and will never work. He hints in references to how peace was eventually achieved in Northern Ireland that the time may be approaching to talk to Hamas ... My basic predisposition is that in a situation like this you talk to everybody. (snip) Mr Blair, speaking after talks with the new US envoy George Mitchell, says that Gaza will not be pushed aside because there are 1.25 million people there who want a Palestinian state. Read more: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article5...
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... from Asda: This milk bottle contains, er, milk. Oh for f**ks sake. Silenced Christian soldiers: Sandhurst chaplain bans Creed 'so services won't offend minority religions'. Sack the bum. Removing car wrecks with the dead still inside will ease congestion: 'Mad Mullah' police chief's latest idea. Bloody nutter. This is why Britain is a failing nation. Heffer on the state of our education system. Hamas must be brought into peace process, says Tony Blair. Confirmation of what a total wanker Blair ...
Tony Blair wants to bring Hamas into the 'peace process'
Israel Matzav —
... 's Hamas friends into the ' peace process .' But Hamas apparently can't make up its collective mind whether that is good or bad for them. In an interview with Ginny Dougary in the Saturday Magazine, Mr Blair says that the strategy of “pushing Gaza aside” and trying to create a Palestinian state on the West Bank “was never going to work and will never work”. He hints in references to how peace was eventually achieved in Northern Ireland that the time may be approaching to talk to Hamas ... “My basic predisposition is that in a situation like this you talk to everybody.” He ...
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