American - Journalist | September 16, 1973 -
Each time there is a conflict between Israel and Gaza, accusations fly over who started it, each side blaming the other.
Richard Engel
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In 2009, Hamas was relatively new to power. It had won elections just three years earlier and was flexing its newfound strength via a war with its old enemy, Israel, which it officially wants destroyed.
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The people of Gaza are trapped. Israel has sealed the border, and they have no way to leave the Gaza Strip to do business.
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It seems nothing good comes out of Abu Ghraib.
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In popular Egyptian and regional culture, women are seen as weak, easy victims to temptation in the same way Eve couldn't resist that shiny apple in the Garden of Eden.
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Traditionally, all the kings of Saudi Arabia have been sons of the founder of Saudi Arabia, and they've gone from one son to the next.
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Foreign aid projects have pumped billions of dollars into the Afghan economy.
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The Taliban may pine for a pre-industrial society, but most Afghans do not.
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Afghanistan was always a backwater in the Islamic world.
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Damascus was the seat of the Ummayad Caliphate in the 7th and 8th centuries.
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For many foreign fighters, the jihad in Iraq and Syria is a commuter war.
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The Israeli military believes it has destroyed all of Hamas's tunnels, or at least all the ones it knew about.
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