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The UN Security Council scheduled a vote yesterday evening on a Palestinian resolution calling for an end to Israel's occupation within three years, a proposal virtually certain to be defeated because of US and Israeli opposition.

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Mahmoud Abbas' government in the West Bank is getting tougher with critics, interrogating, prosecuting and even jailing several journalists and bloggers in recent months for allegedly "defaming" the Western-backed Palestinian leader.

[DatePublished] => 2013-04-01 07:12:46 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 730502 [Title] => Analysis: US buys time in Mideast, but also woes [Summary] =>

The Obama administration has managed to buy time and may have staved off an embarrassing and politically awkward showdown over Palestinian statehood at the United Nations. It may also have maneuvered itself into a corner.

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Spain says it will propose the European Union exert strong diplomatic pressure on Israel to end its blockade of the Gaza Strip.

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The Palestinian president warned yesterday that the region could plunge into a "religious war" over Israel's plans to recognize a disputed West Bank shrine as one of its own national heritage sites.

[DatePublished] => 2010-02-24 02:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 303130 [Title] => Letter to the Editor – Did God really talk to President George W. Bush about the Middle East? [Summary] => It is coincidental that President Bush is the second incumbent US President who claims to have been talked to by God. The last time that an incumbent president of the US claimed to have a "revelation" from God was President William McKinley (1897-1901).

President McKinley said that the Philippines could not be turned over to France or Germany because it would be bad business.

That the Filipinos could not be left to themselves because he claimed that they were unfit for self-government and they would have soon have anarchy and misrule worse than Spain's was.
[DatePublished] => 2005-10-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
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                    [Title] => UN to vote yesterday on resolution to end Israel's occupation
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The UN Security Council scheduled a vote yesterday evening on a Palestinian resolution calling for an end to Israel's occupation within three years, a proposal virtually certain to be defeated because of US and Israeli opposition.

[DatePublished] => 2014-12-31 07:07:27 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1289604 [AuthorName] => Edith M. Lederer [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 925705 [Title] => Palestinian leader clamps down on critics [Summary] =>

Mahmoud Abbas' government in the West Bank is getting tougher with critics, interrogating, prosecuting and even jailing several journalists and bloggers in recent months for allegedly "defaming" the Western-backed Palestinian leader.

[DatePublished] => 2013-04-01 07:12:46 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 730502 [Title] => Analysis: US buys time in Mideast, but also woes [Summary] =>

The Obama administration has managed to buy time and may have staved off an embarrassing and politically awkward showdown over Palestinian statehood at the United Nations. It may also have maneuvered itself into a corner.

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Spain says it will propose the European Union exert strong diplomatic pressure on Israel to end its blockade of the Gaza Strip.

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The Palestinian president warned yesterday that the region could plunge into a "religious war" over Israel's plans to recognize a disputed West Bank shrine as one of its own national heritage sites.

[DatePublished] => 2010-02-24 02:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 303130 [Title] => Letter to the Editor – Did God really talk to President George W. Bush about the Middle East? [Summary] => It is coincidental that President Bush is the second incumbent US President who claims to have been talked to by God. The last time that an incumbent president of the US claimed to have a "revelation" from God was President William McKinley (1897-1901).

President McKinley said that the Philippines could not be turned over to France or Germany because it would be bad business.

That the Filipinos could not be left to themselves because he claimed that they were unfit for self-government and they would have soon have anarchy and misrule worse than Spain's was.
[DatePublished] => 2005-10-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
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