| January 4, 2009 | -
Israel extended its occupation of the Gaza strip, sending in ground forces and cutting the territory in two. Hamas fired 32 missiles at Israel. The Palestinian health ministry reported that more than 500 Palestinians, most of them civilians, including 21 children, have been killed so far; the Israeli military stated that 80 percent of the Palestinian dead were members of Hamas. “We don't intend neither to occupy Gaza nor to crush Hamas, but to crush terror,” explained Israeli President Shimon Peres. “And Hamas needs a real and serious lesson.” “We have restrained ourselves for a long time,” said Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak.
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BBC
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BBC
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| December 28, 2008 | -
Israel bombed Hamas targets in Gaza for three days, killing at least 300 people, 50 of them civilians, and blowing up a mosque and a television station. Palestinians seeking to flee into Egypt were turned back; a doctor at a Gaza hospital said that after 18 months of Israeli sanctions the lack of medical facilities made it better for a patient “to be brought in dead.” Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said that the bombing, ordered in retaliation for ongoing rocket attacks by Hamas, would be “widened and deepened as is necessary,” and an area around Gaza was declared a “closed military zone,” with access forbidden to civilians, including journalists. “No one,” explained an Israeli government spokeswoman, “is trying to hide anything.” Anti-Israeli protests and demonstrations erupted throughout the Arab world, and UFO-cultists in Tel Aviv canceled a “mega-orgy” for world peace.
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New York Times
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Ynet News
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New York Times
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| March 21, 2008 | - Drivers in the Gaza strip, where Israel limits fuel supplies and black market gas costs $27 per gallon, used vegetable oil and turpentine as fuel, producing toxic fumes that result in diarrhea and stomach pain. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration cancelled four global-warming research expeditions, citing the cost of fuel. American cowboys could not afford to drive their horses to rodeos, and those who lived near the border were filling their tanks in Mexico, where gas is subsidized.
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AP via Anchorage Daily News
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AP via Detroit Free Press
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Houston Chron
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LAT
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LAT
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WP
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| March 9, 2008 | - A Palestinian gunman killed eight Israeli students, seven of them teenagers, at a religious school in Jerusalem. “The attacker didn't come to Mercaz Harav Yeshiva by chance,” said Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, calling the school the “flagship of religious Zionism.”
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Jerusalem Post
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| March 2, 2008 | - Responding to rocket attacks on Ashkelon, once the largest seaport of Canaan, Israel sent tanks, troops, and fighter jets to northern Gaza. Fifty-four Palestinians—eight of them children and sixteen of them militants—and two Israeli soldiers died in one day of fighting; Israel's Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai said that the Palestinians were risking a “shoah,” the Hebrew word for “big disaster.” Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas described Israeli raids as “more than a holocaust” and, as the number of Palestinian dead rose to about 100, suspended contact with Israel.
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BBC News
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Wikipedia
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BBC News
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BBC News
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| January 27, 2008 | - At 20 points along the Gaza Strip's southern border, Hamas operatives detonated explosives to topple an Israeli-built fence, allowing as many as 200,000 Palestinians—13 percent of the territory's population—to cross into Egypt and shop. The Gazans purchased camels, candy, cement, chairs, cheese, cigarettes, computers, cows, doughnuts, gasoline, generators, goats, mattresses, medicine, motorcycles, pistols, potato chips, sheep, snack cakes, soap, and televisions. Supplies at Egyptian shops dwindled, prices spiked, and fistfights ensued. Several Gazan women married Egyptians, and the Israel Defense Force patrolled its southern border for would-be suicide bombers and hostage takers.
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New York Times
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Jerusalem Post
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AFP
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Dublin Independent
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| January 20, 2008 | - The lone power plant operating in Hamas-controlled Gaza was shut down for lack of fuel. “At least 800,000 people,” said official Derar Abu Sissi, “are now in darkness.”
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BBC News
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| October 15, 2007 | - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice painted an upcoming U.S.-sponsored Middle East peace conference as a “moment of opportunity” for Israelis and Palestinians, while film director David Lynch claimed that 250 experts in Transcendental Meditation could end that conflict by dissolving “the suffocating rubber clown suit” of hatred.
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The Boston Herald
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Checkpoint Jerusalem
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| October 15, 2007 | - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice painted an upcoming U.S.-sponsored Middle East peace conference as a “moment of opportunity” for Israelis and Palestinians, while film director David Lynch claimed that 250 experts in Transcendental Meditation could end that conflict by dissolving “the suffocating rubber clown suit” of hatred.
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The Boston Herald
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Checkpoint Jerusalem
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| September 22, 2007 | -
Israel, a few days before Yom Kippur, declared that the Gaza Strip is now a “hostile entity,” and the office of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (who is under investigation for corruption) announced a collective-punishment plan that includes “limiting the transfer of goods to the Gaza Strip, cutting back fuel and electricity, and restricting the movement of people to and from the Strip.” Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum condemned Israel's “criminal, terrorist Zionist actions.”
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BBC News
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BBC News
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ABC News
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| August 12, 2007 | - A rocket launched from Gaza struck a ranch owned by comatose former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon.
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Israel Today
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| August 10, 2007 | - Seif al-Islam Qaddafi, son of Muammar Qaddafi, affirmed that recently released Bulgarian and Palestinian medical workers accused of spreading HIV to Libyan babies were tortured while in custody. “Yes,” he said, “they were tortured by electricity, and they were threatened that their family members would be targeted.”
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Chicago Tribune
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| August 4, 2007 | -
Israelis fired apples, chilis, corn, cucumbers, mangoes, and tomatoes into the Gaza Strip.
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Daily Mail
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| July 25, 2007 | - An Israeli study concluding that hummus stimulates serotonin production bolstered sentiment that eating the popular chickpea dip could help Israelis and Palestinians reconcile.
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Christian Science Monitor
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| July 4, 2007 | -
Hamas brokered a deal for the freedom of BBC reporter Alan Johnston, who had been held for 114 days in Gaza.
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BBCnews.com
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| July 1, 2007 | -
Tony Blair alighted on a mission to bring cohesion to Palestinian institutions.
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Jerusalem Post
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| June 17, 2007 | -
Israel and the United States tacitly agreed on a policy to treat the West Bank and Gaza as separate entities.
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New York Times
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| June 15, 2007 | - President Mahmoud Abbas dissolved the Palestinian unity government and declared a state of emergency after masked Hamas gunmen seized control of the Gaza Strip. Hamas looters broke into former Palestinian Authority chairman Yasser Arafat's home and stole military outfits, photographs of his daughter, and his Nobel Peace Prize. “I see Iraq here,” a bystander in Gaza said. “There is no mercy. We are afraid. See how ferocious this fight was? There is no future for us.”
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New York Times
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The Jerusalem Post
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New York Times
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| May 28, 2007 | -
Hamas told Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas it would accept a truce with Israel if the IDF halted air attacks in Gaza, and threatened to kill hostage Gilad Shalit should Israel fail to comply.
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Ha'aretz
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| May 20, 2007 | -
Hamas was fighting Fatah in Gaza and sending Qassam rockets into Israel, which was bombing Gaza in return.
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Reuters
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| May 20, 2007 | - Troops in northern Lebanon were fighting against Fatah Islam, a splinter group from a Syrian-backed
Palestinian splinter group.
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BBC News
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| April 29, 2007 | - In a Ha'aretz op-ed, Gilad Sharon, son of vegetative former Israeli leader Ariel Sharon, advocated stripping Arab Israelis of their citizenship. Hamas declared an end to its ceasefire with Israel, armed protestors dropped the corpse of a murdered man named Hassan Abu Sharkh in the Palestinian Authority Parliament, several rockets struck Israel from Gaza, and the Israel Defense Forces killed three Hamas agents planting a bomb by the Gaza border fence.
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Ha'aretz
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International Herald Tribune
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Jerusalem Post
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| March 27, 2007 | - At least four Palestinians in Gaza were killed by what authorities called a “sewage tsunami.”
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AFP via Breitbart
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| March 26, 2007 | - At the Gaza‒Egypt border a woman with three baby crocodiles strapped to her waist was detained after guards noticed that she looked “strangely fat.”
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AP via New York Times
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| March 8, 2007 | - A human rights group in Israel accused the country's army of using Palestinians, including an 11-year-old girl, as human shields.
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BBCnews.com
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| February 9, 2007 | - In Israel, the streets of Old Jerusalem “ran slick with pulped oranges and tomatoes” as Palestinian protesters and Israeli police officers battled one another.
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The Australian
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| January 15, 2007 | -
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas rejected Israeli calls for a temporary Palestinian state.
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New York Times
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| September 20, 2006 | -
Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya said that Hamas would never recognize Israel.
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monsters and critics.com
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| September 9, 2006 | -
Israeli Internal Security Minister Avi Dichter said Palestinians were wrong to think war with Israel would transform them into “some kind of golden child.” Instead, he said, it made them “a shit child.”
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The New Yorker
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| August 23, 2006 | - The Holy Jihad Brigades, a Palestinian militant group, justified the kidnapping of two Fox News journalists by saying that "the powers of evil are united in waging wars against Islam and their people.”
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New York Times
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| August 21, 2006 | -
Israeli troops detained a Hamas legislator in the West Bank and engaged Hezbollah guerillas in a shootout near Boudai, Lebanon.
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The Wall Street Journal
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| July 6, 2006 | -
Israel continued its push into Gaza in search of an abducted soldier. “We want to use an iron fist,” said Isaac Herzog, a Labor Party minister, “but cautiously, with a lot of consideration.” Palestinians, who did not cease to fire missiles into Israel, were busy counting their dead.
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International Herald Tribune
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| June 20, 2006 | - The mother of a five-year-old Palestinian girl killed by an Israeli air strike told reporters, “If I [got] my hands on an explosive belt, I would go and explode myself inside Israel to tear the hearts out for their children.”
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Forbes via Google News
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| June 18, 2006 | - It was revealed that in 2003 the Bush Administration refused an offer by Iran to end Iranian support of Palestinian
terror organizations and recognize Israel in exchange for an end to sanctions and permission to peacefully develop its nuclear program.
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The Jerusalem Post
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| June 17, 2006 | - The Israeli military absolved itself of responsibility for the deaths of seven members of the picnicking Ghalia family from explosions on a beach in Gaza. An Israeli committee admitted that Israeli forces fired six shells on and around the beach, but found that a mine planted by Hamas (or possibly a buried shell) had, by coincidence, exploded and killed the family at around the same time as the shelling. A former Pentagon battlefield analyst said that the shrapnel and craters he found at the scene of the explosion were consistent with shelling by Israelis, as were the wounds suffered by survivors.
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The Guardian
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| June 2, 2006 | -
Palestinian militants conducted a raid in Israel and abducted an Israeli soldier, whom they carried to Gaza via a secret tunnel. Israel retaliated by bombing Gaza's main power plant, two bridges, the offices of Palestine's prime minister and interior minister, and a soccer field, and by arresting as many as 64 Palestinian officials. Palestinian militants demanded that Israel release all Palestinian prisoners who are women or under the age of 18. A number of Israeli and Palestinian officials speculated that Israel's actions were intended to weaken or topple Palestine's Hamas government.
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VOA News
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| May 25, 2006 | - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called on the Hamas-led
Palestinian Authority to accept the goal of establishing a Palestinian state (and thus acknowledge Israel's right to exist); if Hamas does not comply, he said that he will call a national referendum on the issue.
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CNN.com
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| April 17, 2006 | - The Iranian government promised to give $50 million to the Palestinian Authority, now controlled by Hamas, which let it be known that it would recognize Israel's right to exist if the Jewish state were to withdraw from the entire West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza.
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CNN.com
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Democracy Now!
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| March 29, 2006 | -
Canada cut off all relations with the Palestinian government.
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CBC News
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| March 28, 2006 | -
Palestine fired a larger-than-usual missile into an Israeli kibbutz, without any casualties.
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BBC News
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| March 14, 2006 | - The Israeli army attacked a Palestinian jail to seize six militants.
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BBC News
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| February 27, 2006 | - The European Union approved a $140 million aid package for Palestine.
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BBC News
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| February 19, 2006 | -
Israel froze its $50 million monthly tax payments to Palestine.
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The New York Times
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| February 14, 2006 | - The United States and Israel were working together to destabilize the Hamas-led government of Palestine. “It's not possible,” countered Hamas spokesman Farhat Asaad, “for the U.S. and the world to turn its back on an elected democracy.”
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The New York Times
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| February 10, 2006 | - Riots over blasphemous cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad broke out in India, Indonesia, Kashmir, Palestine, Thailand, the autonomous Somali region of Puntland, and Afghanistan—where 11 demonstrators were killed, at least 4 of them by NATO troops. A Taliban commander offered 100 kilograms of gold to anyone who killed those responsible for the cartoons. Other anti-Muhammad-cartoon protests were held in London and Philadelphia. U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan called on newspapers to stop re-publishing the drawings, and U.S. President George W. Bush condemned the riots but also criticized publishers. "With freedom," said the President, "comes the responsibility to be thoughtful about others." An Iranian newspaper announced that it would publish cartoons mocking the
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