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...those countries don't measure up to international human rights norms. Some governments simply don't want any detainees back, and others are likely to release them without trial. (A Pentagon spokesman said recently that 61 of the 500 detainees already released from Gitmo may have returned to the jihad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama Orders Gitmo Closed. Now the Hard Part | 1/22/2009 | See Source »

Even if Hamas does agree to a cease-fire, it must persuade other radical militant groups to sign on. Hamas sources told TIME that the other main militant group in Gaza, Islamic Jihad, wants to keep fighting, despite its many casualties. Israeli officials say they have killed hundreds of militants but say privately that there's no way of knowing yet how severe a blow this is to Hamas' military command, which is operating from well-hidden underground bunkers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Egypt Works to Broker a Hamas-Israel Cease-Fire | 1/14/2009 | See Source »

...Crimson Staff now joins many around the world in condemning Israel’s delayed response to seven years of continuous rocket fire from Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Yet, tellingly, this opinion offers no solutions, no alternatives, no suggestions for how a sovereign nation ought to respond when missiles are launched at its citizens. In fact, there were seven years of missiles before Israel’s operation began; 8,250 missiles and mortar rounds had fallen on communities within a 20 kilometer range of Gaza. While some might say that firing 8,250 rockets and mortars at civilians...

Author: By Shai D. Bronshtein | Title: DISSENT: A Justifiable Response | 1/6/2009 | See Source »

...Hamas' political leader in Gaza when we met in a dark safehouse in April 2002. The second Palestinian intifadeh was at its height. The previous week, Israeli troops had bulldozed into the refugee camp in Jenin, in the West Bank, smashing the infrastructure of another militant group, Islamic Jihad, but also killing civilians. Israeli forces were easily beating Hamas forces in Gaza too; in Ramallah, Yasser Arafat was practically under house arrest as Israeli snipers took up position around the seat of the Palestinian government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Analysis: How Hamas Wins by Losing | 1/6/2009 | See Source »

...Rantissi that Palestinian militancy was failing, that groups like Hamas and Islamic Jihad were only playing into Israel's hands. In any confrontation that involved guns and tanks, I said, Israel would win. Rantissi gave me a patronizing smile and explained that military defeat was the best thing that could happen to Hamas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Analysis: How Hamas Wins by Losing | 1/6/2009 | See Source »

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