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, while Americans were going to the polls to elect a new president, EFTA_R1_00464356 EFTA01977740 Israeli infantry, tanks and bulldozers entered the Gaza Strip to dismantle an extensive tunnel network used by Hamas to smuggle in weapons. An already tenuous truce mediated by the Egyptian government of Hosn
again on center stage. The Palestinian president is nowhere to be found. For all the attention paid to Abbas's statehood initiative this month at the U.N. General Assembly, it seems truly irrelevant now. And once again, this is confirmation of the fact that events on the ground determine what's up and down in Israel a
’s future. The newsworthy, and real, shift in U.S. policy was Obama publicly condemning the Palestinian strategy to seek recognition as a state from the U.N. General Assembly in September. He also questioned the accord between Fatah and Hamas. Obama endorsed the idea of a demilitarized Palestinian state, a demand Israel ha
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023519 →West Bank grew, and grew some more. I would wait until 2017, 50 years after the Six Day War, which ended with Israel in control of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. I would go before the UN and say the following: "We, the Palestinians, no longer seek a homeland of our own. We recognize the permanence of Israeli
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023531 →energy company. And he just might rock our world. Quran is helping to coordinate a raft of Palestinian youth organizations—located in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria—all united around one goal: to create a Palestinian Tahrir Square. They organized the unity march that helped pressure Fat
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023534 →extending the authority of a Palestinian state to the Gaza Strip will depend on effective control there by a legit
e Jewish and Palestinian peoples to self-determination, without prejudice to the rights of all citizens and minority groups. Recall, in this context, U.N. General Assembly resolution 181 of 1947 that called for the establishment of a Jewish state and an Arab state. • Acknowledge institutional and security reform, econom
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032178 →Entities connected to both the Gaza Strip and the U.N. General Assembly

Barack Obama
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Jerusalem
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Lebanon
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United States
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Bashar al-Assad
PERSON
Fatah
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Bill Clinton
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George W. Bush
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Cairo
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Hosni Mubarak
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Tehran
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West Bank
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Yemen
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Mahmoud Abbas
PERSONthe West Bank
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Terje Rod-Larsen
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Middle East
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Saddam Hussein
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Damascus
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