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…Obama inaugurated in September 2010 collapsed within weeks. Israel's recent battle with the armed Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip left many predicting a wider fight in the future, as divisions deepened within the Palestinian and Israeli electorates over whether talks or war woul...

…ould still be Prime Minister for another three months. We’d long been discussing the increasingly worrying situation in Gaza. After Arik pulled out, an election had placed Hamas in power, after which the Islamists embarked on a violent purge of Fatah loyalists. Arms smuggling thr...

…rik went one, dramatic step further. He raised the idea of unilaterally withdrawing Israeli forces and settlements from Gaza — ensuring a showdown with the rank and file of the Likud, and other parties on the right. His main Likud rival, very much back in front-line Israeli polit...

…ould still be Prime Minister for another three months. We’d long been discussing the increasingly worrying situation in Gaza. After Arik pulled out, an election had placed Hamas in power, after which the Islamists embarked on a violent purge of Fatah loyalists. Arms smuggling thr...

… with the opening phase of the handover of Israeli authority mapped out by Oslo. In May 1994, a draft of the so-called “Gaza and Jericho First” agreement was completed. Once it was ratified, the five-year interim period would begin, with further withdrawals and parallel negotiati...

…ry experience who believes that we would be more secure today if we still had thousands of soldiers and settlers inside Gaza. Surprised though I was by Arik’s decision to leave, I had no doubt that the fundamental security judgment he was making — that a disengagement was in Isra...

…ifferent. It was not a burst of anger, however misdirected, by stone- throwing youths convinced that a road accident in Gaza had been something more sinister. There had been no serious unrest on the day of Arik’s visit. We would later learn this was a deliberate campaign, waged w...

…ed by the bullet-riddled, torched police station of Sheikh Zuweid, a densely populated town roughly nine miles from the Gaza border. It is just one of the security buildings that has fallen victim to the long-running clashes between the military and the Bedouin tribes of the regi...

…ifferent. It was not a burst of anger, however misdirected, by stone- throwing youths convinced that a road accident in Gaza had been something more sinister. There had been no serious unrest on the day of Arik’s visit. We would later learn this was a deliberate campaign, waged w...

…nto the assassination of Prime Minister Hariri. Syria ends its military presence in Lebanon. Israel pulls out of the Gaza Strip. Agreement on Movement and Access. Israeli Prime Minister Sharon is incapacitated. Ehud Olmert becomes interim Prime Minister. Hamas wins Palesti...

… know personally. His intended audience was the rest of the country. He spoke in Nahal Oz, a kibbutz on the border with Gaza often targeted by fedayeen. In April 1956, a group of Arabs crossed from Gaza and began cutting down the wheat in Nahal Oz’s fields. The kibbutz security o...

… in captivity without even visits from the Red Cross. In assessing the condition of the 1.6 million people who live in Gaza, there are issues of where to draw the baseline and — often — what motivates the discussion. It has never been among the world’s poorest places. There is n...

21 Article 6. Asharg Al-Awsat Hamas' Gaza strongman criticizes Khalid Meshal 25 May 2011 -- Differences and clashes within the Hamas movement have come to light for the first time, with Hamas senior figures verbally sparring and exchanging criticism in the media. This is part...

… know personally. His intended audience was the rest of the country. He spoke in Nahal Oz, a kibbutz on the border with Gaza often targeted by fedayeen. In April 1956, a group of Arabs crossed from Gaza and began cutting down the wheat in Nahal Oz’s fields. The kibbutz security o...

…realized that, having come this far with Oslo, neither he nor the government was likely to back away from approving the Gaza-Jericho accord. But he did say he thought the points I’d raised were important, which I took as meaning he was comfortable with my raising it with the cabi...