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News Source: Jerusalem Post
| 5 months ago
Hamas will be a positive force in helping to find a fair solution to the Palestinian people and enabling them to fulfill their rights," Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal said Tuesday night. "Hamas will not be an obstacle...Mashaal and other Hamas leaders...
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News Source: The Daily Star
| 5 months ago
Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal said on Tuesday that arrests in the Occupied West Bank of the group's fighters by forces loyal to President Mahmud Abbas were hindering efforts at reconciliation between the two sides. Meshaal, who arrived for unity talks...
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News Source: The Daily Star
| 5 months ago
President Mahmoud Abbas will chair talks in Jordan on Thursday with factions of Fatah, seeking agreement to hold the first congress in 20 years of the fractured, weakened movement dominating Palestinian politics. Fatah needs to restore unity to...
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News Source: Salon
| 6 months ago
Hence, given the lingering climate of fear and suspicion, I wish that the Cairo speech had been more specific and instructional about Muslim beliefs and culture. Obama's quick and late citations of Andalusia and Córdoba, for instance, could only...
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News Source: Japan Times
| 6 months ago
Few speeches in recent history have been as widely anticipated as the June 4 address of U.S...The speech, delivered in Cairo, was the high point of a four-nation trip to the Middle East and Europe. The speech is intended to signal a "new beginning...
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News Source: The Daily Star
| 6 months ago
President Barack Obama's peaceful sentiments towards the Muslim world are viewed with distrust or cynicism by some in this region, and, to a point, that's understandable. I'm not given to wishful thinking and I'm definitely not naive but if we truly...
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News Source: Palestine Chronicle
| 6 months ago
Obama's speech to Muslims, which he made during his trip to the Middle East last week, may have seemed like it was made to show America shares "principles of justice and progress, tolerance and dignity of all human beings," but more precisely, this...
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News Source: Russia Today
| 6 months ago
There will definitely be some changes, insignificant changes, but the overall role of the United States in the Middle East, the desire to be the hegemonic power is certainly going to remain constant. In many ways, Obama is a clean break from the...
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News Source: Truthdig
| 6 months ago
Now I wonder if he might have been underestimating. In several interviews during the long presidential campaign, Obama mentioned the potential impact in other countries of seeing an American president with an appearance and a life story like...
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News Source: Press TV
| 6 months ago
On Monday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the looming confrontation served the alleged hidden agenda which, he claimed, Obama had exposed during his recent address to the Muslim world, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported. Last Thursday, making...