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MIDEAST: 'Day of Rage' Engulfs Palestine
By Mel Frykberg
QALANDIA, West Bank - On Tuesday tens of hundreds of Palestinians of all political persuasions took to the streets, alleys and sidewalks as widespread rioting and protests spread across East Jerusalem, the West Bank, Gaza and into Israel proper.
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MIDEAST: Israel-U.S. Tensions Continue to Percolate
By Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON - Despite assurances by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Tuesday that the United States and Israel share a "close, unshakeable bond", the week-old crisis between the two allies continued to percolate here Tuesday.
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MIDEAST: Israeli Raids Target Children
By Nora Barrows-Friedman
SILWAN, EAST JERUSALEM - Three thousand heavily armed Israeli security service forces locked down large parts of the Old City of Jerusalem on Tuesday, as battalions of police fired rounds of tear gas and rubber-coated steel bullets at Palestinian protesters in the occupied eastern part of the city. Nearly 40 Palestinians were wounded and treated at nearby hospitals, as 25 were arrested during intense clashes.
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MIDEAST: U.S.-Israeli Tensions Escalating Quickly
By Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON - The crisis touched off by last week's announcement of Israel's plans to build 1,600 new homes for Jews in Arab East Jerusalem during a high-profile visit by U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden appears to be escalating rapidly.
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MIDEAST: An Unlikely Collision Takes Place
Analysis by Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler
JERUSALEM - In the middle of last week, it seemed that the old cliché about the light at the end of the dark Middle East tunnel was being confirmed: the U.S. had successfully cajoled both Israel and the Palestinian Authority into beginning to talk again.
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CULTURE: Poor Patronage Killing Arab Cinema
By Mohammed Omer
ROTTERDAM - Arab cinema, which had a promising presence at international film festivals during the 1990s, may now be going through a declining phase for lack of patronage.
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MIDEAST: Israel Lands in Public Relations Nightmare
By Mel Frykberg
JERSUSALEM - Israeli riot police and soldiers have, since Friday, sealed off the Al Aqsa mosque, Islam’s third holiest shrine, restricting entry to women and Palestinian men over 50.
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US-ISRAEL: Tiff or Tipping Point?
Analysis by Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON - "Condemn" is not a word that rolls trippingly off the tongue of a U.S. politician addressing anything having to do with actions, however objectionable, by Israel.
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EGYPT: Population Growth Overtakes Literacy Rise
By Cam McGrath
LUXOR - Literacy programmes are teaching millions of Egyptians to read, but are struggling to keep up with the country's high population growth.
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MIDEAST: Building Settlements, Not Peace
By Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler
JERUSALEM - "The best laid-schemes o' mice an' men gang aft a-gley" (Scottish for 'going wrong').
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MIDEAST: Iran, Israel Spoiling for a Fight?
Analysis by Mel Frykberg
RAMALLAH - Iran and Israel appear to be spoiling for a fight, going by recent belligerent statements emanating from several regional capitals.
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RIGHTS: Middle East Women Ahead But Not Home
By Sanjay Suri*- IPS/TerraViva
UNITED NATIONS - Male leaders fail to break the Mideast impasse. Enter women from Israel and the Palestinian territories working together. And… it would have been nice to say they succeeded where the men failed.
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MIDEAST: Israeli Left Emerges From Coma Amid Atrocities
By Mel Frykberg
SHEIKH JARRAH, Occupied East Jerusalem - Amid the wave of violence that swept through the occupied Palestinian West Bank, including East Jerusalem, over the last few days, there are signs that the Israeli left may be emerging from its collective coma.
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In addition to the historically unbridgeable divide between Israel and the Palestinians, a split is broadening between the militant Hamas and the relatively moderate Fatah groups on the Palestinian side. Israel faces its own internal disagreements on such issues as Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank. And with every opening divide, trouble in the region escalates. IPS correspondents provide the big-picture perspective on the Middle East.