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  • Bad investment deal: Tunnels to Egypt

    A Hamas public relations problem: No transparency and a failure to regulate. Sound familiar?
  • Hamas reacts to Obama's speech

    "We are looking for more than just mere words," the leader of the terrorist group says
  • Obama's Hamas problem

    The president can't afford to continue the Bush administration's policies toward Israel.
  • Neoconservatism dies in Gaza

    The recent Israeli offensive has put the final nail in the coffin of the Bush administration's Middle East fantasy.
  • Why Israelis support the Gaza offensive

    Israel's post-traumatic war is not just about stopping Hamas rockets, but about repairing reputations -- and erasing the stain of failure.
  • Israeli ground troops move into Gaza

    Israel Defense Forces official says troops now on the ground in Hamas-ruled territory.
  • Is Israel repeating mistakes of the past?

    Israel has promised a "war to the bitter end." Yet history shows that battling an organization like Hamas is almost futile.
  • McCain on Iran: Bush all over again

    An alarmist John McCain is using Iran as a political weapon against Barack Obama -- even as he misjudges our Middle East adversary.
  • Hamas' "unendorsement" of Obama

    The group reacted negatively to his speech at AIPAC, and now there's talk of Hamas' "unendorsing" Obama, but the whole discussion rests on a faulty premise.
  • An "October surprise" to help Obama?

    Gabriel Schoenfeld suggests terrorists may try to help Barack Obama's electoral prospects this fall, but history doesn't support his take.
  • McCain defends comments about Hamas, Obama

    John McCain justifies his statement that Hamas wants Barack Obama to be president by saying he's only discussing what's of interest to voters.
  • McCain: "Clear who Hamas wants to be the next president"

    John McCain seizes on positive comments about Barack Obama made by a Hamas advisor, but it was Bush's policies that boosted the group.
  • Egypt's Gaza nightmare

    Palestinians have flooded into Egypt en masse since militants blew open a border wall. Is it a blessing in disguise for Israel?
  • Bush's tangled arms deal

    By selling weapons to "moderate" states, Bush would again be playing puppet master and jerking around the Middle East with disastrous consequences.
  • "I admit that I don't have my shtick down"

    In an interview with Salon, Bill Richardson talks about his "evolving" positions, what he owes Bill Clinton, and exactly what "no residual troops in Iraq" means.
  • Israel's Olmert rises from the rubble

    Despite the Gaza disaster and poll numbers that make George Bush look beloved by comparison, the shrewd prime minister has renewed his grip on power.
  • Spinning the disaster in Gaza

    Bush and Olmert scramble to prop up Abbas, but the Hamas takeover boosts Iran and leaves hopes for a Palestinian state in tatters.
  • "Hamastan" vs. "Fatahstan"

    Hamas' violent takeover in Gaza leaves the Palestinian territories divided, and U.S. and Israeli strategy under a cloud.
  • To Damascus with Nancy Pelosi

    Why neocons are so apoplectic about the speaker's visit to Syria.
  • Letter from Gaza

    What the death and burial of 16-year-old Nahid al-Shanbari says about Hamas.
  • Last chance for Mideast peace

    While Bush and Olmert cling to their hard line, hope for an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is slipping away forever.
  • When is a "Little Bird" not a little bird?

    Is sexual innuendo in traditional folk tales too much for Hamas to handle?
  • The Palestinians' war within

    Fatah leader Abdallah Frangi talks about the violent power struggle raging between his party and Hamas -- "the worst we've experienced in Palestinian history."
  • West Bank beer fest

    A Christian-Palestinian microbrewery is defying the hardships of occupation -- and perhaps Hamas' vision for an alcohol-free Islamic state.
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