Feb 4, 2009

Palestine News Roundup

Abbas: 90,000 Gazans left homeless (Al Jazeera English)

Israeli Opposition Leader Vows to Crush Hamas if Elected (Voice of America)

Hamas: Israel offered to let in 75% of Gaza aid in exchange for Shalit (Ha'aretz)

Rights groups say laws of war violated in Gaza (Associated Press)

War crimes accusations rattle Israel (Christian Science Monitor)

Top defense official Gilad: Israel must strive for peace with Syria (Ha'aretz)

Fayyad pledges $600m. in aid to Gaza residents (Jerusalem Post)

Clinton Demands Hamas End Attacks on Israel as Mitchell Returns (Bloomberg)

Barak okays new West Bank settlement in return for evacuation of illegal outpost (Ha'aretz)

Palestinian president says Gaza attacks war crimes (Seattle Post Intelligencer)

EGYPT: Court overturns ban on natural gas to Israel (Los Angeles Times)

Low-key Israeli election campaign in final week (Reuters)

U.N. agency says Hamas seized Gaza aid (Reuters)

Hamas police 'seized Gazan aid' (BBC News)

In new book, Jimmy Carter is upbeat about peace talks in Mideast (PopMatters)

Muslims, Jews united to protest Gaza war (Al-Arabiya)

Israeli drones in Gaza may have had British engines, ministers admit (The Guardian)

Erdogan blames world for not ‘giving Hamas a chance’ (Tehran Times)

Clinton calls for 'viable' Palestinian state (AFP)

Clinton, Miliband Discuss Afghanistan, Iran, Middle East (Voice of America)

US-allied Arab states seek unity, back Abbas (Reuters)

Palestinian flag planted on pitch at Turkish match (guardian.co.uk)

COMMENTARY

Sandy Tolan: George Mitchell and the end of the two-state solution (Christian Science Monitor)

Ruth Sunderland: Where are women in this crisis? (Taipei Times)

Abe Foxman: A One-Man Defamation League (alternet)

Thomas L. Friedman: Five minutes to midnight on a two-state solution (The Daily Star Lebanon)

Victims of war (Economist)

Aleem Maqbool: Palestinian unity pleas mask split (BBC News)

News Analysis: Israeli-Palestinian peace remains dismal as Hamas-Fatah reunion unlikely (Xinhua)