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Analysis by Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler
JERUSALEM, Jan 19 (IPS) – Europe now evidently understands what the U.S. has long understood – if you want to move Israelis on peace, you need to make them feel secure.
There they were Sunday evening, six of the Continent’s most powerful leaders [...]

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Mel Frykberg
RAMALLAH, Jan 19 (IPS) – Humanitarian aid is being rushed into Gaza as Israel and Egypt open their borders temporarily to allow convoys of aid to pass through.
While Israeli drones circle the skies above, Hamas security men are back on the streets attempting to restore some semblance [...]

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Athar Parvaiz
SRINAGAR, Jan 19 (IPS) – As war clouds hover over India and Pakistan, anxiety levels have risen in Kashmir, often described as the bone of contention between the South Asian neighbours
Bellicose posturing by the two countries, following the Nov. 26-29 terror strikes in Mumbai, has, according to [...]

Global Politics Online Journal
B.RAMAN
Despite differences over strategies and tactics in the fight against global jihadi terrorism, there is a convergence of views between the outgoing administration of President George Bush and the incoming administration of President-elect Barack Obama as to what should be the ultimate objective of the US war against global terrorism.
2. [...]

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Mel Frykberg
RAMALLAH, Jan 18 (IPS) – One Palestinian civilian died and over a dozen rockets hit southern Israel early Sunday morning just hours after Israel implemented a unilateral ceasefire halting its three-week military incursion into Gaza.
The Israeli Air Force (AIF) carried out several bombing attacks on the northern [...]

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Analysis by Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler
JERUSALEM, Jan 18 (IPS) – ”If only my three daughters will be the last victims of this horrible conflict,” wept Dr. Ezzadin Abu Al-Aish, a Palestinian gynaecologist recovering from his wounds in Tel Aviv’s Tel Hashomer hospital. An Israeli tank shell killed [...]

INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR–PAPER NO.492
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B.RAMAN
There have been two audio messages disseminated by Al Qaeda calling for an armed jihad against Israel in support of the people of Gaza in their fight against the Israelis. The call is for support to the people of Gaza and not to the Hamas with which Al [...]

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Daniel Luban
WASHINGTON, Jan 17 (IPS) – The three-week-old war in Gaza – halted Saturday by an Israeli ceasefire – has had a polarising effect on the U.S. Jewish community, resulting in a deeper and at times acrimonious split between dovish groups that are sceptical of the Israeli military [...]

INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR—PAPER NO.490
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B.RAMAN
(This is an elaboration of some points made extempore by me in continuation of my paper on terrorism at the Regional Outlook 2009 Forum of the Institute of South-East Asian Studies, Singapore, on January 7,2009. The paper is available at http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers31/paper3007.html )
“Terrorists are increasingly technology-savvy, but not [...]

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Analysis by Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON, Jan 17 (IPS) – Just as the foreign policy of U.S. President George W. Bush was characterised by a continuous battle for control between hawks led by Vice President Dick Cheney and realists based primarily in the State Department and intelligence community – and, [...]