Feeling "cheated" by Washington, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas says he won't run again. His departure would derail U.S. peace efforts, but then again, the poll from which he's withdrawing won't happen ...full story at digg
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Israel Returns Palestine's Lawn Mower, Mideast Conflict Ends » digg Decades of ethnic tension ceased instantaneously Monday when Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas shook hands over a comprehensive agreement to return a faded green lawn mower first borrowed by Israel in 1949. |
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Palestinian poet was a political, cultural icon passes away » digg Mahmoud Darwish, whose poetry helped make him one of the leading cultural voices for the Palestinian experience, died Saturday in Houston of complications from open heart surgery. He was 67. |
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