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...seemed to have the makings of a classic political showdown, except that conservatives now say they were not actually "opposing an effective vaccine." "This is an awesome vaccine," Linda Klepacki, analyst for sexual health at Focus on the Family, told me when asked her about her group's position. "It could prevent millions of deaths around the world. We support this vaccine. We see it as an extremely important medical breakthrough. To read those headlines saying we're against this is really disconcerting." What they are against, she explained, is making vaccination mandatory rather than leaving it up to parents...
...Gaza standards, it was a good wedding: nobody got shot. And it was a hopeful sign that after weeks of mounting tension, the rival Hamas and Fatah factions might be looking for ways to co-exist. Even as Hamas and Fatah gunmen ready for a showdown on the empty streets of the Gaza Strip, leaders of both factions told TIME they are trying to broker a compromise, one that could lead to a power-sharing agreement between Abbas and the Hamas-backed Prime Minister Ismail Haniyah. Atef Ibrahim Adawn, a long-time Hamas member who is now Minister for Refugee...
...will not make political concessions" to Israel and opposes the vote as a waste of money. If Hamas and Abbas can indeed now come to an agreement on the prisoners' proposal, that would end the need for a referendum - and the dispute over it. Until then, however, the political showdown is fanning the anger on the streets between Hamas and Fatah gunmen...
...based on the 1967 borders, Abbas has declared a referendum on the matter next month, a proposal promptly rejected by Hamas. In calling for a boycott of what it calls nothing more than a power play by Abbas, Hamas is arguing that there is no reason for a Palestinian showdown over a negotiating position that has already been flatly rejected by Israel...
...SHOWDOWN IN U-HALL...