By Glenn Kessler
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, February 28, 2009; 12:40 PM
Jewish Leaders Blast Clinton Over Israel Criticism
Feb 27, 2009 9:34 am US/Eastern
Zuckerman, Lawmakers, Local Jews Say Secretary Of State Not The Hillary Clinton They Used To Know
Hillary Pressuring Israel To Speed Up Aid To Gaza
Hamas rejects U.S. demand to recognize Israel
chinaview2009-02-28 20:19:34
Palestinian groups set out plan for reconciliation
The Jordan Times
Sunday, March 1st, 2009, 11:33 pm ET
...Clinton is to visit Israel and the West Bank following the Gaza aid meeting in the Egyptian Red Sea resort town of Sharm El Sheikh.
Talks on captive soldier
A senior Israeli negotiator held talks in Cairo on Thursday on efforts to free a soldier captured by Palestinian fighters in Gaza more than two years ago, an Israeli official said...
...The Islamist movement Hamas has demanded the release of more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners, many of them implicated in attacks against Israelis, in exchange for Shalit....
...Air strikes
Israeli air strikes hit smuggling tunnels between Hamas-run Gaza and Egypt on Thursday after fighters in the enclave fired two rockets into the Jewish state, the army and witnesses said.
The afternoon strikes did not result in any casualties, witnesses said.
They came after two rockets fired from Gaza struck inside Israel without causing casualties, the army said.
The incidents marked the latest violence to rock tenuous ceasefires that Israel and Hamas announced on January 18, ending a 22-day war in the coastal strip that killed more than 1,300 Palestinians and 13 Israelis.
Anti-Semitism In Araby
To achieve Arab-Israeli peace will mean dealing with a civil society on one side that is by no means civil.
Josef Joffe
NEWSWEEK
From the magazine issue dated Mar 9 2009
Bernard Lewis' What Went Wrong?
Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response is what I' m reading right now.
Juan Cole wrote an essay on it, criticising it and then went on to write Engaging the Muslim World , which I have not read. Click on the book for another review.
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