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Somewhere, Khaled Meshal Is Laughing
During a Jerusalem press conference with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyau, Joe Klein asked Secretary Clinton if the Obama administration still insists on an Israeli settlement freeze as a confidence-building measure ahead of resumed negotiations with the Palestinians. Netanyahu filibustered and ...
Steve Clemons Interviews Khaled Meshal (video)
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Steve Clemons Interviews Khaled Meshal (video)
youtube.com — New America Foundation Foreign Policy Programs Director Steve Clemons interviews Hamas leader Khaled Meshal for 'The Palestine... Note' on 17 October, 2009.Clem... (more) Steve Clemons Interviews Khaled Meshal (video)
Interviewing Khaled Meshal on Palestine, Goldstone, International Law and Israel Peace Process
Interviewing Khaled Meshal on Palestine, Goldstone, International Law and Israel Peace Process
thewashingtonnote.com — On the 17th of October this year, I interviewed Hamas leader Khaled Mashal in his offices in... Damascus, Syria on a wide range of topics. I did the interview as part of a launch effort for a new political blog, The Palestine Note , which is ... (more) Interviewing Khaled Meshal on Palestine, Goldstone, ...
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Obama’s Settlement Climbdown
Matthew Yglesias — ... Spencer Ackerman has a good post on the damage the Obama administration’s apparent climbdown on the settlement freeze issue is doing to moderate Palestinian leaders. From the perspective of Bibi Netanyahu, that’s great. He doesn’t want to freeze settlements, he doesn’t want to remove settlements, and he doesn’t want a comprehensive peace agreement. But he doesn’t want to come right out and say that he has no intention of negotiating a comprehensive peace. So his best hope is either that a humiliated Fatah leadership loses to Hamas, or else ...

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