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	<title><![CDATA[Paradise Sinking]]></title>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:12:24 GMT+02:00</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[PIUL ISLAND, Papua New Guinea - Chief Bernard Tunim confronts the issue head-on: "We did not create global warming, but we are its first victims. The industrialized world must take decisive action at the Copenhagen summit before it is too late for everyone."  
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	<title><![CDATA[Hamas may not be moderate, but it's cracking down on extremism]]></title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:40:48 GMT+02:00</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[Many Israeli commentators have argued recently that Hamas is eager to complete the deal to free Gilad Shalit because of the lack of achievements it has to show its public in the Gaza Strip. However, quite a number of Palestinian commentators there claim that the status of the Islamic movement has stabilized of late, in particular because of its ability to help distressed residents of the Strip by means of its network of charitable organizations. Others propose that the real threat to Hamas today comes from the direction of Islamic extremism, which in another few years is liable to become a significant factor and to present a serious challenge to the Hamas regime.  
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	<title><![CDATA[Netanyahu's way out ]]></title>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:13:43 GMT+02:00</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' refusal to resume negotiations with Israel is not surprising. With Israel drawing closer to Hamas via negotiations for the release of imprisoned soldier Gilad Shalit, Abbas wants to show he is no less a Palestinian patriot than Khaled Meshal or Ismail Haniyeh. As they extort hundreds of jailed terrorists from Israel in exchange for one captive soldier, Abbas is hardening his stance, demanding that Israel stop building in East Jerusalem and publicly attacking U.S. President Barack Obama for "not doing anything for peace."  
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	<title><![CDATA[Worst of all evils ]]></title>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:14:25 GMT+02:00</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[Last Sunday morning, settlers who expected that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was going to put the decision to freeze settlement construction in the West Bank to a vote in the cabinet bombarded the ministers with messages pleading that they vote against. But the settlers did not realize that Netanyahu had already won support for the decision in a secret vote held among the "group of seven" in his inner cabinet. Things had also gone smoothly in the security cabinet, which voted 11-1 in favor. In the full cabinet, however, the expectation was that about half of the Likud ministers might vote against.  
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	<title><![CDATA[No refuge ]]></title>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:15:05 GMT+02:00</pubDate>
	<description><![CDATA[S. is one of the thousands of Eritrean refugees who are required to report monthly to the Lod absorption center. There, the Interior Ministry has established a "department for questioning refugees and infiltrators," to confirm their identity so they may be given residence permits.  
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