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April 23, 2014

Middle East and North Africa
Will Kerry Continue the Jerusalem-Ramallah Shuttle If Hamas and Fatah Unite?

Secretary of State Kerry has put enormous effort into the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. Most recently, there has been talk of a three-way deal wherein Israel releases 426 prisoners (some of them …

October 10, 2014

Middle East and North Africa
Rebuilding Gaza Starts Slowly--Very Slowly

The Hamas claim of victory in last summer’s conflict with Israel was based largely on the associated claim that life in Gaza would now change to the great benefit of the people living there. A vast r…

November 7, 2012

Middle East and North Africa
Meanwhile, on the Israeli-Palestinian Issue

While Americans have been focusing on our election, there have been a few developments in the so-called “Middle East Peace Process.” PLO chairman Mahmoud Abbas has said he would drop his preconditio…

March 1, 2019

North Korea
Global Conflict This Week: Negotiating with North Korea

Developments in conflicts across the world that you might have missed this week.

Trump-Kim summit

February 29, 2012

Israel
Hamas Breaks From Syria

While the “Friends of Syria” were meeting in Tunis last week, Hamas was separately taking its own steps to disavow the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad. In a significant move, Hamas officials announc…

Syria's president Bashar al-Assad shakes hands and welcomes Hamas leader Khaled Meshal before a meeting in Damascus on January 24, 2009—three years before Meshal would break with the former (Courtesy Reuters).