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...Guest rooms are tastefully opulent: plush pink, red and orange fabrics, modern dark-oak furniture, Egyptian cotton sheets and bespoke artwork. But the details feel like home: a chess set on the table, candles by the bathtub, books you might actually read and a welcome bag with a little rubber duck inside. If you can pull yourself away from the Bang & Olufsen entertainment center, the hotel's swanky Cerise restaurant serves a modern European menu using local ingredients, and the bartender makes a mean mojito. It's been said one should never mix business with pleasure. Whoever said that...
...responsibility for the abduction, including the military wing of Hamas, which Israel charged was acting on the directions of Khaled Mashaal, the Hamas supremo in Damascus (see box). Two days into the Gaza incursion, Olmert ordered Israeli forces to halt their advance to allow for a mediation push by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. On Friday, Mubarak claimed that Hamas had agreed to release Shalit, but Shalit's captors demanded the release of 1,000 Palestinian prisoners, which Israel refused. Haniya's spokesman, Ghazi Hamad, told TIME that was the militants' demand, not the government's. "We want to avoid further...
...Shalit is released, Israeli officials have said repeatedly, the army will pull back. Still, it doesn't look good. Attempts to negotiate Shalit's release, assisted by Egyptian mediators, have been paralyzed by the absence of a clear hierarchy on the other side. Numerous Palestinian leaders, led by President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas' political leader, have been working to secure the soldier's release, but the militants holding Shalit apparently do not answer to them. Israeli officials are saying directions are coming from Damascus, from Hamas' leader in exile Khaled Meshal, who is pushing a much...
...possible military actions, including air strikes against militant targets, assassinations of Hamas political leaders - up to and including Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh - and the reoccupation of Gaza. While troops and tanks are massed at the edge of territory, however, the plans are on hold while intermediaries, including Palestinian and Egyptian officials, try to negotiate the release of Cpl. Shalit...
...counter-productive, saying it both "violated the national consensus" and potentially offered Israel "a pretext to launch a widespread military operation." What happens next may depend on the fate of Cpl. Shalit. Numerous countries are lobbying Palestinian leaders to do everything they can to secure his release, with Egyptian representatives apparently playing a key role. Several senior officials of the Hamas government have publicly called for Shalit to be released unharmed. The militants holding the young soldier have said they are tending to his wounds and that he's being treated well, but they appear to be following...