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Hamas leader: Obama must do more for peace

Hamas political leader Khaled Meshaal on Thursday called on the United States to take a more active role in the Mideast peace process "so that America and the rest of the world can take a break from the headache of the region." “We appreciate the new language Obama used toward Hamas, and it is the first step in the right direction toward launching direct dialogue without any preconditions,” Meshaal said in his address from Damascus, Syria. “We welcome this.” Meshaal — who lives in exile in Syria — is the head of Hamas, which rules the Palestinian territory of Gaza

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Hamas official: After the talk, can Obama walk the walk?

Most people across Muslim and Arab lands viewed President Obama’s speech in Cairo, Egypt, as "excellent," a spokesman for the hard-line Palestinian movement Hamas said. But the official, Ahmed Yousef, interviewed on CNN’s “American Morning” from Gaza City, said there’s a question on the street: Is the American president “ready to walk the way he talks” “This is the question,” said Yousef, the senior adviser for former Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya.

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A Dangerous Deadlock Persists in Gaza

If President Barack Obama had hoped to ease his way in to dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, January’s war in Gaza made the issue an urgent priority for his new Administration. Three weeks of pummeling by Israel aimed at dislodging the Palestinian militants of Hamas had left many thousands of Palestinians living in smoldering rubble. It had enraged the Arab world and enfeebled the moderate Palestinian leadership on which Washington had long relied to deliver peace with Israel

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Hamas: U.S. Diplomacy’s Final Frontier

Israel’s new government is a headache the Obama Administration doesn’t need. Compared with Tzipi Livni, the woman he narrowly beat out, and even Ehud Olmert, the man he succeeds, incoming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahuis cool toward a Palestinian state. And although it includes the moderate Labor Party, Netanyahu’s ruling coalition teems with right-wing figures like Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, whose call for a loyalty oath directed at Israel’s Arab citizens dismays even Israel’s staunchest friends.

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Obama invites Mideast leaders for talks on ‘comprehensive peace’

President Obama is launching an effort "to achieve a comprehensive peace in the Middle East," his spokesman said Tuesday. Obama has invited key regional leaders to Washington in the coming weeks for consultations on the peace process, Robert Gibbs said. Obama wants to meet separately with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, Gibbs told reporters

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