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• Gaza suffers drop in foreign aid over Syrian war

  (AP) -- A refugee from Syria recently opened a bakery here, drawing long lines of customers eager to taste meat and cheese pastries with the special flavors of Damascus -- a rare bright spot in the long shadow that the Syrian civil war is casting over th   Read more »

• Nader: Five myths about a nuclear Iran

  "Iran is an irrational actor" Wrong.It's as clear as day that the Islamic Republic pursues goals in the Middle East that put it on a collision course with the United States. Iran is opposed to Israel as a Jewish state, for instance, and competes for regi   Read more »

• Officials: Cigarette smuggling ring busted

  A $10,000 investment nearly 20 years ago by convicted terrorist Sheikh Omar Abdel- Rahman in a Brooklyn baby food business led to the takedown of a $55 million cigarette smuggling operation while raising suspicions of links to international terrorists, o   Read more »

• Bin Laden son-in-law wants to hire lawyer facing indictment

  Osama bin Laden 's son-in-law said Wednesday that he wants to be defended on terrorism charges in federal court in Manhattan by an activist lawyer who is himself under criminal indictment.Sulaiman Abu Ghaith told U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan that he   Read more »

• Palestinian rivals promise unity government

  (AP) -- A leading Palestinian official says rival groups Fatah and Hamas have agreed to form a national unity government in three months.Fatah official Azzam al-Ahmed said both sides agreed on a timetable that begins with creating laws to govern election   Read more »

Around the web

• Hamas Admits: Relations with Iran Hurt

  admitted for the first time on Wednesday that its relations with Iran have been hurt because of its support for the Syrian rebels. Hamas’s Deputy Minister of External Affairs, Ghazi Hamad, told reporters in Gaza that the deterioration in relations is expressed 12:55 AM from Arutz Sheva Read more »

• Why PA's new prime minister heads a papier-mâché government

  of the split between the Ramallah and Gaza wings of the PA, the Palestinian Legislative Council elected in 2006, in which Hamas has a majority, has rarely met and several of its members remain imprisoned by Israel. The executive committee of the Palestine 6/19/13 from The Electronic Intifada Read more »

• New Ray Hanania for 06/20/2013

  lands in the occupied West Bank, especially around Arab East Jerusalem, has done more to undermine peace than even the violence of Hamas in the beginning of this century. In 1993, there was so much hope that finally Israelis and Palestinians, Jews and Arabs, 6/19/13 from Creators Syndicate Read more »

• Hamas holds talks to stop being listed as terror group

  The water level of the Yamuna river has crossed the danger mark in Delhi, increasing the threat of flood. Locals are gearing to face the crisis as the rains are at least twice as heavy as usual in northwest and central parts of India. The water level of th 6/19/13 from MSN India Read more »

• It's such a shame when crazed Islamists hate each other

  saying those positions had led to a worsening of ties with Tehran. A diplomatic source in the region said Iran has provided Hamas with up to $20 million a month to help pay the salaries of nearly half of 50,000 Gaza government employees. Hamad said Hamas was 6/19/13 from Elder of Ziyon Read more »