Luke Baker and Nidal al-Mughrabi
By Luke Baker and Nidal al-Mughrabi
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Fast Forward Palestinian Uprising Puts Mahmoud Abbas in a Corner
A three-week-old uprising by knife-wielding, Internet-generation teenagers against Israelis has left 80-year-old Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas looking like yesterday’s man, unable either to oppose the violence or openly endorse it. Having promised the Palestinian people when he came to power a decade ago that he could bring about an independent state through peaceful means, he…
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Fast Forward 6 Palestinians Shot Dead by Israel as Violence Spirals
Israeli troops shot dead six Palestinians in protests in Gaza and a knife-wielding Jewish man wounded four Arabs in southern Israel on Friday in a wave of violence that has fueled talk of a new uprising against Israel. The soldiers shot across the border into Gaza after the Palestinians came too close to the Israeli…
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