As U.S. lawmakers visit, Mideast ponders what comes next

For the first time in nearly a decade, U.S. lawmakers toured the isolated, battle-scarred Gaza Strip Thursday in a high-profile visit that came as the new Obama administration in Washington is developing its diplomatic priorities for the Middle East. Full Story »

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Dwight Rousu
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by Dwight Rousu - Feb. 22, 2009

Good lord. Kerry visits the American International School destroyed by Israel and says Hamas has to change its policies??? Nissenbaum perhaps noticed the great irony and managed to report it straight up, figuring this version would not upset AIPAC. The linked Real News video discussion is interesting.

Israel has been creating a ghetto in the West Bank and Gaza and have violated any agreement they have made with the Palestinians. Making "peace" with Syria would only seem a tactic to allow further enhance the displacement of Palestinians from all lands that Israel desires for their ethnically Jewish state.

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