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...Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has promised that A parliamentary poll will be held in January, and he negotiated a deal early this year with Hamas to maintain "calmness" until then. But Abbas already delayed those elections from July, because crushing Hamas victories in Gaza's municipal polls convinced his own Fatah party that voters would punish it for its corrupt regime in the parliamentary race...
...Hamas was busting for a fight, but felt itself restrained by its agreement with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to maintain "calm" until the January parliamentary elections. When rockets being carried by Hamas men exploded during a parade last week in the Jabalia refugee camp, the resulting deaths had to be blamed on Israel - to avoid embarrassment and accusations of hurting the Palestinian people. That also afforded an excuse to hit Israel. Hamas pulled back after a few days and ordered its men to once again observe the truce, however, because it didn't want to be blamed by ordinary Palestinians...
...Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has vowed to rein in the chaos. How is he doing on that score...
...that it has an "inalienable right" under the NPT to enrich its own uranium for reactor fuel - enrichment capability is of paramount concern to the West, because it would give Iran the technical means to create weapons-grade nuclear material. That stance hardened with the election of conservative President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who last week insisted that Iran would never give up the "right" to enrich uranium and scoffed at Western concerns that Iran was building a bomb...
Just days after delivering a vitriolic speech to the United Nations General Assembly—in which Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared Iran’s inalienable right to enrich uranium and develop nuclear power—the hard-line president gave another highly distressing address. During a military parade, he told cheering crowds: “Those who decide to misuse our nation’s honor…should know that the flames of the nation’s wrath are very hot and destructive.” Amidst the parade, banners proclaimed “Israel should...