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rnational pressure to help broker a ceasefire and safeguard peace in the region. Egyptian Prime Minister Hisham Kandil spent three hours visiting the Gaza Strip on Friday morning. Despite agreeing to a ceasefire during Kandil's brief visit with Hamas leaders, Israeli air strikes continued there, while Ham
a particular problem. We rode the rest of the blessedly short trip in silence. Later that week, my students and I took two taxis from the hotel to Abu Dis, a West Bank village just outside the security barrier that surrounds Jerusalem. What should have been a 15-minute ride took about 40 minutes, as
a week before the Gaza withdrawal, declaring: “I am not prepared to be a partner to a move which ignores reality, and proceeds blindly toward turning the Gaza Strip into a base for Islamic terrorism which will threaten the state.” To this day, Bibi, along with many Israelis across the political spectrum, draws a
ployments. In fact, he now wanted us to add the transfer of three Arab villages on the edge of east Jerusalem: Eizaria, El-Ram and, most importantly, Abu Dis, since from there you could see the golden dome of the mosque above the Western Wall in the Old City. I understood why the villages were politically
a week before the Gaza withdrawal, declaring: "I am not prepared to be a partner to a move which ignores reality, and proceeds blindly toward turning the Gaza Strip into a base for Islamic terrorism which will threaten the state." To this day, Bibi, along with many Israelis across the political spectrum, draws a
ployments. In fact, he now wanted us to add the transfer of three Arab villages on the edge of east Jerusalem: Eizaria, El-Ram and, most importantly, Abu Dis, since from there you could see the golden dome of the mosque above the Western Wall in the Old City. I understood why the villages were politically
Entities connected to both the Gaza Strip and Abu Dis

Jerusalem
LOCATION
Benjamin Netanyahu
PERSON
Barack Obama
PERSON
Bashar al-Assad
PERSON
Fatah
ORGANIZATION
Lebanon
LOCATION
United States
LOCATION
West Bank
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George W. Bush
PERSONthe West Bank
LOCATION
Bill Clinton
PERSON
Ramallah
LOCATION
Damascus
LOCATIONSinai
LOCATION
Hillary Clinton
PERSON
Yasser Arafat
PERSON
Ehud Barak
PERSONMediterranean
LOCATION
East Jerusalem
LOCATIONthe State of Israel
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