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In this article the author examines issues surrounding the formation of a Palestinian state in the Gaza Strip. The author advances the position that the most reliable method for achieving peace in the region between the Palestinian Arabs and Israel is through engagement with Hamas, the political organization that controls the Gaza territory.

Offers a look at social and political issues involving Palestinians and Israelis in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Controversy surrounding Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to cut back Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip; Opposition to the plan by the Jewish settlement movement; Advocation of a Palestinian state by U.S. President George W. Bush.

The article discusses the issues and threats faced by Israel's government with regard to conflicts in the Gaza Strip region. Topics discussed include continuation of protests and terror attacks in the region, the firings conducted by terrorist group Hamas from the region into Israel and the country's security concerns. It outlines the efforts pursued by Israel to reshape the region's political scenario.

The author shares her reflections about the March of Return, a series of protests launched by Palestinians which calls for the end of the Israeli-Egyptian blockade of the Gaza Strip. Topics discussed include violence in Gaza wherein Israeli troops shot and killed Palestinian protestors, the participation of Palestinian women in the protests and the Palestinian religious and political organization Hamas' claims that the protest is peaceful and nonviolent.

Presents a profile of Tzipi Livni, the Immigrant Absorption Minister of Israel's Likud Party. Livni, who saved president Ariel Sharon's government after he lost a party referendum on his Gaza pullout plan by suggesting a compromise Cabinet resolution; Difficult position of Likud after Sharon's dismissal of the referendum, which he initiated himself; Livni's reassurance that Likud can remain true to itself despite withdrawing from its core ideological commitment to preserve Israel's post-1967 borders; Likud, which has come to resemble the old Labor party of pragmatic hawks like Golda Meir and Moshe Dayan.

Reports that after six weeks of Palestinian self-rule in the Gaza Strip and West Bank, popular support remains strong for Yassir Arafat and his Palestine Liberation Organization. But there is little to see in the way of tangible benefits. Fear that Arafat's rule will be chaotic and dictatorial; Need for him to abandon the life of a jet-set revolutionary and accept the more plodding role of conventional politician; More.

The article discusses how the Harakat al-Muqawamah al-Islamiyah (Hamas) Islamist organization-led government in the Gaza Strip is being condemned following a violent crackdown on protests in the area in 2019, and it mentions protests involving price increases for basic goods. A photograph depicting the search for bodies following Cyclone Idai in Zimbabwe is presented, along with information about U.S. President Donald Trump's meeting with Brazilian leader Jair Bolsonaro.

The article discusses the formation of Palestinian Bantustan, reservations or enclaves that began with the occupation in 1967 that accelerated and deepened in parallel with the negotiation process between Israel and the Palestinians with the Madrid/Washington talks and with the Oslo process. Topics include state of Arab-Israeli conflict, delegating the Civil Administration and role of Palestinian Authority, and situation in the Gaza Strip, and maintenance of peace in Palestine and Israel.

In this article the author discuss political activity on the Rutgers University Busch campus in Piscataway, New Jersey that the authors say aids the Hamas political party governing the Gaza Strip. They focus on the role of the USTOGAZA organization in collecting money for anti-Israel activism involving flotillas, suggesting that people donated to the cause because they considered it to be a humanitarian voyage. It is argued that civilians in Gaza should be aided without the involvement of Hamas.

The article looks at Egypt's efforts to unite the Islamic fundamentalist group Hamas and Fatah, the left-wing faction of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) into one unifying government in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Information is presented on Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the administrative organization the Palestinian Authority, and his attempt to gain Palestinian statehood recognized by the United Nations, which is opposed by Hamas.

In this article the author considers Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist organization, noting that it is an important factor in Israel's security and in Palestinian politics. Despite these factors Hamas is shunned by the international community. The author suggests that Israel ease its siege of the Gaza Strip in an effort to win concessions from Hamas. According to the article Israel and the international community could exploit weaknesses within Hamas to prevent the organization from undermining peace negotiations in the region.

Presents information on the evacuation of Jewish settlements from Gaza strip, a largely Palestinian territory next to Israel.

The article reports on the takeover of the Gaza Strip by Hamas militants who threw off the control of the Palestinian Authority (PA) and its Fatah armed wing. What some call an Islamist military coup against an Arab government has divided control of the Occupied Territories between Gaza under Hamas and the West Bank under the PA and its president, Mahmoud Abbas.

Presents letters to the editor in response to articles published in previous editions of "The Nation." Responses to the article "No Thanks, Mrs. Bush," by Sharon Olds, in the October 10, 2005 edition; Response to the column "Comix Nation," in the October 10, 2005 edition; Responses to the article "Gaza Illusions," in the September 12, 2005 edition.

Examines the anticipation of Israelis and Palestinians to the signing of the Cairo Document implementing Palestinian self-rule in Gaza and Jericho. Scenarios illustrating the effects of prolonged enmity and hatred in the Bethlehem, Daheisha Refugee Camp and Hebron regions.

Presents an excerpt of the policy statement by Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin to the Knesset, Jerusalem, Israel given on May 11, 1994. Four issue spheres of the negotiations on Gaza-Jericho; Difficulties experienced during the negotiations; Details of the Gaza-Jericho agreement.

Presents remarks made by US Secretary of State Christopher, Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Chairman Arafat, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres at various news conferences in Gaza and Jerusalem in July 1994 regarding peace negotiations in the Middle East. The text of the Gaza-Jericho Agreement between Israel and the PLO signed in Cairo, Egypt, on May 4, 1994; Speech by US National Security Advisor Anthony Lake.

Speculates on whether the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) can make `self-rule' work as it gets control of Gaza and Jericho. The initial controls; The major questions that won't be negotiated until 1996; Why Yasir Arafat needs to win over both Israelis and Palestinians; What the World Bank has earmarked for 1994 in its three-year plan for Gaza Strip and West Bank. INSET: The garbage of Gaza: All yours, Yasir, by Jeffrey Bartholet..

Examines how the autocratic style of Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Leader Yassir Arafat is making life hard in Gaza. Difficulty of doing business under Arafat's Palestinian Authority; Fear that he is creating a miniature replica of the authoritarian Arab regimes in the region; Growing belief that Arafat must be reigned in and that ordinary Palestinians be given a greater say in shaping their future.

Reports on intensified turmoil in the Gaza Strip as Fatah and Hamas Palestinians battled each other. Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority; Palestine Liberation Organization's Fatah Hawks; Benevolent Society for the Gaza Strip.

Reports on Palestine Liberation Organization head Yasser Arafat's lethal answer to the challenge from the Gaza Strip's Islamic militants, where clashes left 15 Palestinians dead and several hundred wounded. Militant Muslim groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad; Background of the clashes; The little Palestinians have to show for achieving self-rule; Rejectionists' argument that peace with Israel should be overturned.

Questions whether or not the snafu in Cairo over the lack of Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat's signature on six accompanying maps is just the tip of the iceberg of possible problems about Palestinian self-rule. Signing by Israeli Yitzhak Rabin and Arafat; PLO unprepared to rule; Transfer of power in the Gaza Strip and Jericho under the agreement; Inherent difficulties in transforming a liberation movement into a government.

The author discusses why Israeli journalist Ori Nir believes that the violence between the Israeli military and the Gaza Strip government Hamas is justifiable. Topics include how Hamas was coping with the loss of its allies Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood which was overthrown by the Egyptian military, Nir's belief that Hamas is to blame for the death of Palestinian civilians rather than Israel, and his hope for a negotiated ceasefire.

The article focuses on the urban crisis in Gaza Strip. It states that the poverty rate in Gaza Strip is estimated to reach 40 percent. It says that the urban centers have failed to deliver basic adequate provisions for good living which has resulted to worsening social, political, and economic crisis. Moreover, the youth population which is 43.7 percent of Gazans preferred to leave or take a stake in the fragmented political landscape.

The article reports that a tentative calm and peace have settled over the Gaza Strip after weeks of violent infighting between Hamas and its political rival Fatah. The internecine bloodshed between the two factions peaked after the establishment of an emergency Palestinian government in Ramallah under the leadership of President Mahmoud Abbas following Israeli and international pressure to form an alternative government to the democratically elected Hamas leadership.

This article discusses a meeting between the author and Khaled Mashaal, the leader of the Palestinian group Hamas. Mashaal's opinions regarding the prospects for negotiations in the Arab-Israeli peace process, which U.S. President Barack Obama is trying to organize, are considered. Despite the condemnation of Hamas by the U.S. and Israel for their participation in terrorism the author believes that their participation is important to peace negotiations because they control Gaza.

The article focuses on Ismail Haniyey, the leader of Hamas, the Sunni Islamic political group in the Gaza Strip, and his role in the release of British reporter Alan Johnston. The author speculates on future negotiations with Haniyey and the Palestinian militant group called the Army of Islam in regard to the release of the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.

The author offers opinions on the civil strife in Palestine that resulted in the takeover of the Gaza Strip by armed forces of Hamas. The responsibility for this development is laid on the Palestinians themselves. Hamas is an indigenous political movement that has flourished despite a lack of outside support from other Arab nations and the determined hostility of the U.S. and Israel. Thus its views must represent a significant part of Palestinian political opinion.

The article describes political allegiances in Gaza among either Hamas, led by Ismail Haniyeh or Fatah, led by Mahmoud Abbas. The police forces are reportedly comprised of unarmed Hamas men dressed in brightly colored clothes. Hamas gunmen and Palestinian Authority security chief Mohammed Dahlan reportedly have poor relations. Social conditions at the Erez border crossing are described.

The article reports on the conflict taking place in the Gaza Strip in June 2007. The rival Palestinian factions, Hamas and Fatah, have renewed their fighting in the Gaza Strip. The author reports on the difficulty of a cease-fire, offers examples of violent acts conducted by both factions, provides statistics on the number of deaths since June, and discusses the actions of the politicians in the area.

The article offers information on the controversial ceasefire agreement with Hamas, the armed group that controls Gaza, is holding up while Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu's government has managed to stay together even after losing a coalition partner, as of November 2018. It reports that Gazans see the ceasefire agreement as a sell-out by Hamas, protests away from the border are meaningless because then they not bother Israeli citizens.

The article reports on the policies set up by the U.S. government to deprive the Islamic Group Hamas of any funding. After Hamas won a democratically contested election in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the U.S. government halted most aid to the Palestinian Authority. Now it is pressuring Arab banks in the surrounding countries to turn away clients who want to make money transfers to the Palestinian Authority. Israel is also withholding tax payments it collects on its behalf.

Describes the economic and social problems facing Yasser Arafat as the newly-elected Palestinian Authority of the Gaza Strip and West Bank. Admiration for the social security structure in Israel; Desire to structure Palestinian government similarly; Arafat's promise to annul those clauses in the 1964 Palestinian Covenant that callled for the destruction of the Jewish state; Arafat and Shimon Peres needing each other. INSET: Seeking the peace vote, by Eric Silver.

Focuses on Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasir Arafat's struggle to govern in 1995, a year after taking charge in the Gaza Strip. Arafat's growing role in the West Bank; Reasons behind Arafat's increased weariness as a leader; Actions taken by Arafat in governing the Gaza Strip and Jericho; Impact of Arafat's administration on government services in the Gaza Strip.

The article discusses the political division between the Gaza Strip and West Bank. Information regarding the challenges faced by Palestinians in terms of freedom of movement, democracy, and liberation from oppression, the division between Fatah and Hamas, and the humanitarian crisis, are mentioned. The article also mentions the decision of several faction groups including Hamas, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), and Islamic Jihad to boycott the elections.

The article discusses the conflict between Israel, the Palestinian Authority (PA), and Hamas over Gaza. The economical, physical, and mental conditions of Palestinians living in Gaza, the Hamas vision to completely liberalize Palestine as stated by Mahmoud Zahhar, a political figure of Hamas, and plans of the president of PA Mahmoud Abbas to resume peace talks with Israel are also included.

Depicts Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat as ready to sign an agreement implementing Palestinian self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jerico. The next step in the peace process, involving Syria.

Examines how Yassir Arafat is waging a turf war against Islamic militants for control of Gaza and Jericho--and the minds and hearts of his people. Hamas and the Islamic Jihad, two militant groups; Arafat's Fatah Hawks, the armed Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) faction that is Arafat's power base; Inability of Arafat's disorganized, cash-strapped Palestine Authority to deliver economic benefits to the long-suffering Gazans.

Comments on actions by Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin to bolster Palestinian Yasser Arafat in his numerous problems in the Gaza Strip. Israeli promises to ease an economic boycott and expand Palestinian autonomy; Why the Israelis share some blame for Arafat's problems; Sheik Abdullah Shami; Palestine Liberation Organization Foreign Minister Farouk Kaddoumi.

The article reports on the pending Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty and notes the reason for the delay of its signing. It reveals the proposal of the U.S. on a compromise peace formula wherein Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin would exchange letters regarding the autonomy for the West Bank and Gaza after the signing of the peace treaty and the elections for local governing councils. It points out that Anwar Sadat also made a proposal of his own, suggesting to negotiators to set aside the question of the West Bank. It cites the worry expressed by U.S. President Jimmy Carter regarding the possibility of the peace process to be collapsed. It also presents the political situations in Gaza and Cairo and explains the reason on Begin's political struggles.

The article focuses on how the Palestinians view the Camp David Accord signed between Israel and Egypt. It mentions that the accord was rejected by the Palestinians in its essence because it fell short of their goal of independent West Bank and Gaza. It mentions that different factions were being require to insists that the negotiation should be between Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and Israel. However, Israel rejects any participation of the PLO to the negotiation and Israel wants to include the presence of King of Jordan Hussein in the negotiation. It adds that based on the statement of Major General Avraham Orly of Israel, his country is ready for negotiation on various issues including taxes, internal security and immigration.