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  syndicate.article_date[ syndicate.index ] = 'Sep 5, 2010 - 2:00:29 AM';
  syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = '         \n\n      \n       <table class=\"tablefix\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"15\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"right\" width=\"100\">\n         <tr><td>\n\n         \n         \n\n         <img src=\"http://imeu.net/engine2/uploads/2/palestine-chronicle_98.jpg\" vspace=0  alt=\"palestine-chronicle_98.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\"  border=1 />\n            <div class=\"image_caption\"></div>\n\n      	</td></tr>\n      </table>\n\n  \n      \n\n   \n\n\n   \nA new round of peace talks between Palestinians and Israelis has just begun in the United States. The summer was one of kite-flying, on the one hand in the form of indirect contacts between the two sides so as not to further provoke Palestinians sick of the Israeli Occupation and the incompetence of the Palestinian Authority.';
  syndicate.index++;  syndicate.article_title[ syndicate.index ] = '2 dead after Israel bombs southern Gaza';

 
  syndicate.article_url[ syndicate.index ] = 'http://imeu.net/news/article0019712.shtml';
  syndicate.article_date[ syndicate.index ] = 'Sep 5, 2010 - 1:55:12 AM';
  syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = '         \n\n      \n       <table class=\"tablefix\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"15\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"right\" width=\"100\">\n         <tr><td>\n\n         \n         \n\n         <img src=\"http://imeu.net/engine2/uploads/2/Maan-new_34_1_16.jpg\" vspace=0  alt=\"Maan-new_34_1_16.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\"  border=1 />\n            <div class=\"image_caption\"></div>\n\n      	</td></tr>\n      </table>\n\n  \n      \n\n   \n\n\n   \nGaza medics have retrieved the body of a second Palestinian killed when Israel\'s air force struck the southern Strip overnight, officials said Sunday morning. Gaza medical services spokesman Adham Abu Silmiyya said the body of 19-year-old Khalil Muhammad Al-Hattab from Al-Bureij refugee camp was found in the tunnel area in Rafah. One person is still missing, he added.';
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  syndicate.article_date[ syndicate.index ] = 'Sep 5, 2010 - 1:00:43 AM';
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  syndicate.index++;  syndicate.article_title[ syndicate.index ] = 'Ramadan goes down under rubble';

 
  syndicate.article_url[ syndicate.index ] = 'http://imeu.net/news/article0019710.shtml';
  syndicate.article_date[ syndicate.index ] = 'Sep 4, 2010 - 2:00:23 AM';
  syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = 'With power cuts up to 16 hours to full days, a soaring heat wave and unbearable humidity, the Israeli-led siege on Gaza is but one of many factors leaving Ramadan miserable for the majority of Palestinians in Gaza. Abu Hani, 54, lives with his wife Umm Hani, 54, and three sons in Johr al-Dik, eastern Gaza, in the rubble of their demolished home, destroyed in the 2008- 2009 Israeli war on Gaza.';
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  syndicate.article_date[ syndicate.index ] = 'Sep 4, 2010 - 1:55:04 AM';
  syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = '         \n\n      \n       <table class=\"tablefix\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"15\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"right\" width=\"100\">\n         <tr><td>\n\n         \n         \n\n         <img src=\"http://imeu.net/engine2/uploads/2/Maan-new_34_1_15.jpg\" vspace=0  alt=\"Maan-new_34_1_15.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\"  border=1 />\n            <div class=\"image_caption\"></div>\n\n      	</td></tr>\n      </table>\n\n  \n      \n\n   \n\n\n   \nSpeaking to reporters during a brief break from re-launched peace talks, US envoy to the Mideast George Mitchell said Israeli and Palestinian leaders agreed to meet every two weeks in the region to continue talks. The first set of talks will take place on 14-15 September in the Middle East - likely in Egypt according to the Associated Press - where Mitchell and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will be in attendance.';
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  syndicate.index++;  syndicate.article_title[ syndicate.index ] = 'Abbas: The man and the politician';
  syndicate.article_url[ syndicate.index ] = 'http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/spotlight/2010/09/20109173658242619.html';

  syndicate.article_date[ syndicate.index ] = 'Sep 4, 2010 - 1:28:08 AM';
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  syndicate.article_date[ syndicate.index ] = 'Sep 3, 2010 - 10:09:23 AM';
  syndicate.article_summary[ syndicate.index ] = 'For decades, the international community has assumed that historic Palestine must be divided between Jews and Palestinians. Yet no satisfactory division of the land has been reached. Israel has aggravated the problem by settling roughly 500,000 Jews in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, eliminating the land base for a viable Palestinian state. ';
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