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Hamas, through its Damascus-based leader Khaled Meshal, has indicated acceptance of Israel's basic requirement for a truce - an end to rocket fire - but only if the truce, along with ending Israeli military strikes, also opens the border crossings that would allow normalization of economic life in Gaza. Hamas insists that it ended the cease-fire precisely because the truce had failed to lift the economic siege of Gaza...
Hamas' demand on the border crossings, though, is directed as much at Egypt as it is at Israel. Hamas' primary objective, in fact, is to open the border gate between Egypt and Gaza at Rafah, which was closed by Cairo at the request of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas when his forces were driven out of Gaza by Hamas 18 months ago. Rafah, as the Palestinians' only entry point to the outside world not controlled by Israel, represents the closest thing to a symbol of Palestinian sovereignty, which is precisely why Hamas is so keen to control...
...some as a symbol of insidious globalization, cordially invited into the U.S. only to eat away at the domestic job market. In 1992, before the treaty was ratified, independent U.S. Presidential candidate Ross Perot famously warned voters to prepare for the "giant sucking sound" of jobs moving across the border to Mexico, where NAFTA would enable companies to take advantage of cheap labor. Mexico's average hourly manufacturing wage is still only about 13 percent of that of the U.S., but even with that persistent disparity, most jobs these days aren't being shipped to America's southern neighbor. Instead...
...Tuesday, the fourth day of Israel's offensive and a day of patchy clouds, Israeli warplanes continued to pound Gaza, destroying buildings allegedly linked to Hamas. In one incident, witnessed by this reporter from a hilltop overlooking the northeast corner of the Israel-Gaza border, an Israeli F-16 dropped a half-ton bomb on what appeared to be half a dozen rocket launchers. Even as the heavy woomph of the bomb hitting the ground reached us, about three miles away, one of the rockets blasted skywards, likely triggered by the exploding bomb...
...Sheikh Hasina. The Awami League has promised not just a trial of suspected 1971 war criminals, but also relief from soaring inflation, expanded agricultural subsidies, equitable economic growth and - just for good measure - a check on jihadi groups. Despite the resounding defeat of Jamaat, militants operating in the border areas between India and Bangladesh are still a significant threat, says Ataur Rahman, chairman of the Bangladesh Political Science Association. Sheikh Hasina will need the full cooperation of the military to control them, but it isn't yet clear how much leverage she will have over the Army and intelligence services...