DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
April 6, 2009, 10:22 AM (GMT+02:00)
Gilead Shalit, victim of new Hamas hard line
DEBKAfile's Middle East sources disclose that Hamas has just driven the Egyptian-brokered Hamas-Fatah unity talks into the ground. The radical group was freshly-empowered to raise the ante by the Obama administration's active courtship of its Syrian sponsor, without president Bashar Assad giving an inch on his strategic alliance with Tehran. This breakdown has dashed hopes of securing the release of Gilead Shalit, the Israeli soldier held by Hamas for nearly three years.
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Obama: US backs Israel, Palestinians states, is not at war with Islam
April 6, 2009, 10:56 PM (GMT+02:00)
Addressing the Turkish parliament, Monday, April 6, US president Barack Obama said the world should not give in to pessimism in the pursuit of peace between Israelis and Palestinians despite the challenges. "Let me be clear," he said: "The United states strongly supports the goal of two states..." He asserted that the United States is not and will never be at war with Islam.
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