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Senior US Senator Carl Levin criticized Egypt’s “weak” efforts Sunday to pressure its ally Hamas to reduce tensions in the bloody conflict between Gaza’s Islamist rulers and their enemy Israel. Egypt was mediating talks between Hamas and Israel to broker

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com With Israelis cast as villains people wonder about a ground invasion of Gaza Turkey and Egypt take the lead in mediating a Gaza truce Israel’s ‘Iron Dome’ air defense system a game changer With

US President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressed concern Friday that renewed violence in Israel and the Gaza Strip would damage the Middle East peace process. The White House had previously made it clear that it

It is impossible not to notice the timing of this week’s incipient Middle East regional war. It comes approximately one week after Barack Obama was re-elected to the presidency. Last Tuesday, Obama won re-election; four days later, Hamas began firing

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com As rockets pour in from Gaza, Israel debates launching a new war A new Gaza war would be far more dangerous than the 2008 war Israel fires tank shells, makes ‘direct hits’ on targets

(AP) JERUSALEMThe Israeli military says it has fired into Syria for a second straight day in response to errant mortar fire that landed in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights. There were no reports of injuries on either side of the frontier Monday.

By KARIN LAUB and BARBARA SURKAssociated PressDOHA, QatarThe newly elected leader of Syria’s main opposition group slammed the international community for what he called inaction, saying Saturday that fighters are in desperate need of weapons to break the stalemate with

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com: EU budget talks collapse in acrimony Greece’s bailout payment unlikely to be approved by Monday Norwegian mass murderer says prison ‘violates his human rights’ Syrian refugee crisis explodes with new flood of refugees EU

(AP) Syrian president says he will not leave countryBy BARBARA SURKAssociated PressBEIRUTSyrian President Bashar Assad vowed defiantly to “live and die” in Syria, saying in an interview broadcast Thursday that he will never flee his country despite the bloody, 19-month-old

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Labor unions shut down Greece for 48 hours in anti-austerity strike Seven more Syrian generals defect to Turkey The Butterfly Effect and the presidential election Labor unions shut down Greece for 48 hours in

(AP) Activist group: At least 50 troops killed in SyriaBy BASSEM MROUEAssociated PressBEIRUTA Syrian activist group says a suicide car bomber has killed more than 50 Syrian soldiers and pro-government gunmen. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com: Turkey asks Germany for help with PKK terrorists Erdogan’s visit to Germany highlights some major differences Eurozone unemployment reaches new historic high Still no progress on Greece’s next bailout payment Turkey asks Germany for

(AP) Blast in Syrian capital kills at least 13By JAMAL HALABYAssociated PressAMMAN, JordanA taxi rigged with explosives blew up near a police station in the Syrian capital Sunday, killing at least 13 people even as the U.N. envoy to the

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com: Huge car bomb in Beirut Lebanon kills eight Car bombing renews fears of renewed civil war in Lebanon Murder of Lebanese hero Wissam al-Hassan considered a blow to all of Lebanon Lebanon and the

Barack Obama’s support of Islamist takeovers of Middle East countries has been a bulwark for the Islamist leader of Turkey, Recep Erdogan. Erdogan’s Justice and Development party (AKP), has inspired the Islamist parties that rose to leadership in Tunisia and

Syrian regime warplanes have dropped cluster bombs in sorties against rebels in the northwestern town of Maaret al-Numan, the insurgents told AFP on Friday. The rebels showed an AFP correspondent in the battleground Idlib province town debris from one such

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Tensions grow between Turkey and Kurds in Syria Change in Georgia’s leadership presents new problems in relations with Russia and Nato Tensions grow between Turkey and Kurds in Syria Syrian conflict (AP) The firing

The attacks on the Benghazi consulate raised questions about President Obama’s foreign policy that have only become more pronounced as news of rejected pleas for increased security take center stage. The angst and desperation Ambassador Christopher Stevens demonstrated on the

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Mali militants may be responsible for ‘accidental’ shooting of Mauritania’s president A Nato invasion of Syria becomes increasingly plausible Syria’s chemical weapons revive the debate of Iraq’s WMDs Mali militants may be responsible for

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Russia accuses Turkey of ‘beating up’ crew members on intercepted Syrian passenger plane Turkey says that intercepted Syrian passenger plane contained Russian munitions Tensions grow between Russia and Turkey Hizbollah chief Nasrallah admits to

(Reuters) – Turkey scrambled fighter planes to force a Syrian passenger jet to land and seized what it suspected was military equipment being ferried from Russia to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces. The interception of the Syrian Air plane came