Washington Post:
President-elect Barack Obama will inherit a perilous situation in the Middle East, with Israel under increasing pressure to halt its ground invasion of the Gaza Strip, key Arab leaders close to the United States greatly weakened and the Hamas militant group earning resurgent popularity in the reg...
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President-elect Barack Obama will inherit a perilous situation in the Middle East, with Israel under increasing pressure to halt its ground invasion of the Gaza Strip, key Arab leaders close to the United States greatly weakened and the Hamas militant group earning resurgent popularity in the...
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washingtonpost.com - Letters to the Editor:
President Bush has gone from lame duck to simply lame. The lack of leadership from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. amid the current Middle East crisis and economic downturn reflects poorly on all Americans. (Read More)
The Guardian:
Sunny Hundal has wrote earlier this week about the potentially alienating effects of religious voices in the current protests over Gaza.In some respects, I would agree with him. To regard the Middle East conflict in simplistic religious terms – for example as part of a wider war on Islam – fails to recognise the complexitie (Read More)
The Guardian:
Forget, alas, all the usual stuff about fairness, balance and freedom of independent thought. Merely follow Editor and Publisher magazine's own accounting for the first eight media days of Gaza warfare. Coverage: "Largely one-sided, with little editorialising or commentary arguing against broader Israeli actions." And: "Mos (Read More)
CNN:
Four years ago my work took me to Jerusalem and the West Bank. I had spent years reading about the Middle East conflict and anchoring from the studio CNN’s coverage of bombings and clashes. On the ground, I found it was so much more complicated. People on both sides told me they want to live in (Read More)
The Guardian:
Barack Obama has finally broken his silence about the Israeli assault on Gaza, though hardly in a way that makes his intentions crystal clear.Obama told reporters yesterday that "the loss of civilian life in Gaza and Israel is a source of deep concern to me." He added that his incoming administration was going to "hit the g (Read More)
The Guardian:
The new head of MI5, Jonathan Evans, has been outlining his assessment of the terror threat to Britain. Security editor Richard Norton-Taylor has the details.Middle East editor Ian Black looks at diplomatic efforts to end Israel's bombardment of Gaza. Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, is urging Syria to use its influen (Read More)