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Ceasefire
Jan 20 2009, Incognito

Did anyone truly think that after Israel called for a unilateral ceasefire, and Hamas begrudgingly followed suit, that Hamas wouldn’t eventually start firing rockets into Israel again? The question wasn’t if but when, and it certainly didn’t take...

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Men clean up a barber shop as shops started reopening in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, May 11, 2008. On the first day of a cease-fire in Baghdad’s Sadr City between Shiite militants and U.S.-backed Iraqi forces,...