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1. Poll: Obama's popularity with Israelis plummets
(U.S./Nation)

... in the aftermath of the May 31, 2010 Israeli ship boarding in international waters off Gaza that left nine activists dead and several Israeli commandos injured. The poll revealed that 71 percent disliked ...

2. Leader of Free Gaza flotilla says they will be back
(World/International)

BY MEL FRYKBERG IPS NEWS AGENCY RAMALLAH — In an exclusive interview with IPS Huwaida Arraf, the chairwoman of the Free Gaza (FG) movement, which tried to break Israel's crippling blockade on Gaza, ...

3. Israel facing harsh criticism over raid on Gaza aid flotilla
(World/International)

... for Monday's raid on the Free Gaza (FG) humanitarian aid flotilla that left 19 people dead and about 50 injured. However, whether Israel's slick and well-oiled publicity machine, and the various lobby ...

4. Israeli navy commandos storm civilian flotilla heading to Gaza
(World/International)

... — in international waters — trying to bring desperately needed aid to Gaza. The death toll was expected to rise. Chaos, confusion and outrage surround the exact circumstances under which the Free Gaza ...

5. Israeli ‘Settlements’: A New Jersey story
(Opinion/Commentary)

... support a two state solution that would create a Palestinian Arab state in West Bank and Gaza, as long as Israel retained the national consensus settlements. In the northern region of Israel near the ...

6. Anti-semitism: Why it just won’t go away
(Life/Style)

... was the Gaza war. Now, every time there is violence in the Middle East, we see a fallout of anti-Semitism — but nothing like this time. The demonstrations and the attacks against Jewish institutions and ...

7. Israeli-Palestinian tensions rise over East Jerusalem
(World/International)

... spread across East Jerusalem, the West Bank, Gaza and into Israel proper. The worst violence in several years, something of a mini Intifadah or uprising, followed the Islamist movement Hamas calling ...

8. Israel, Hamas cited for war crimes despite no vote by U.S.
(World/International)

... regardless of any potential impact on future peace talks, while rejecting accountability in the case of Israeli actions in Gaza," she said. She said the U.S. administration claims to base its foreign ...

9. Israel moves forward on settlements against U.S. wishes
(World/International)

... it easier for Palestinian militants to attack Israel like those in Gaza have been doing since Jewish settlers evacuated the Strip in 2005.  ...

10. Gaza children struggle with PTSD
(World/International)

BY MEL FRYKBERG IPS NEWS AGENCY BREJ, Gaza – Tens of thousands of children in Gaza are still suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) following Israel's three-week bombing December- January. ...

11. Book review: Defending the divine
(Life/Style)

... that, without the vast concentration camp known as the Gaza Strip, it is not all out of the question that the Twin Towers would still be standing." Eagleton then traces anti-western sentiments to the ...

12. U.S. hawks push for “Three-State Solution” in Middle East
(World/International)

... prominent alternative they are pushing is the so-called "three-state solution" or "Jordanian option", in which the West Bank would be returned to Jordanian control and the Gaza Strip to Egyptian control. ...

13. World reaction mixed on Obama's Cairo speech
(World/International)

... in Muslim-American relations to skepticism about setting words to action. From the Gaza Strip to Kabul to Washington, D.C., the world held its breath as President Obama made his historic speech to the ...

14. Experts say in U.S. outreach to Islamic world, actions matter most
(World/International)

... election victory of Hamas, the radical Islamist group that now governs Gaza. But Madelyn Spirnak, the U.S. deputy assistant secretary for Near East affairs, saw no inconsistency. "The U.S. government ...

15. As J Street turns one, signs of a shift
(U.S./Nation)

... - particularly after it took the lead in questioning the wisdom of Israel’s recent military offensive in Gaza. But as a growing number of normally hawkish commentators have come forward to argue that ...

16. U.S. Jews approve of Obama's dealings
(World/International)

... Israel-Gaza conflict. Gerstein says the new poll also shows solid support among American Jews for a central tenet of the J Street organization: that peaceful resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict ...

17. Deborah Jerome:
('Uncategorised Content')

... the 2005 Israeli pullout from the Gaza Strip for the paper. She also launched The Star-Ledger's opinion site, NJVoices.com.  ...