Who Voted For Hamas?

Yglesias makes an important point: I think another issue here that’s rarely noted in these discussions is that the median age in the Gaza Strip is 17.
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Goldstone, Continued

Ken Silverstein interviews "Desmond Travers was one of the four members of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, which produced the controversial Goldstone Report": We found no evidence that Hamas used civilians as hostages.
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Hamas launches religious crackdown in Gaza

Bringing out the inner knuckle-dragger whether they like it or not. The Guardian: For the first time since Hamas won Palestinian parliamentary elections nearly four years ago, the group is trying to Islamise Gazan society.
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Gay leader drinks to future with Merkel at Oktoberfest

An openly gay politician who can survive the brutish ribaldry of the Munich Oktoberfest should have little trouble sitting down with the likes of Hamas, Muammar Gaddafi or other tough negotiating partners.
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"Not Terrorism"

That's what this Associated Press video says:

Other outlets earlier made the same claim, although many have gone back and re-edited their stories so that they now say that it appears to be criminal and not nationalistic, although I don't know how they can claim that since we don't know who the attacker was.
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It's time to listen to the IMF and move forward

Especially in light of the latest revelations from Israeli soldiers, it's time to move this process along.
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Reuters: Amnesty says Israel "wantonly" destroyed Gaza

Reuters: Amnesty International said on Thursday Israel inflicted "wanton destruction" in the Gaza Strip in attacks that often targeted Palestinian civilians during an offensive in December and January in the Hamas-run enclave.
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The Kowtow In Cairo

Weak as water, President Obama's "World Mea Culpa Tour" stopped in Cairo today. There, he drew a daft moral equivalence between the self-inflicted suffering of the Palestinians and their self-styled war of genocide against Israel, and the Holocaust that was brought on the Jewish people during World War II.
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