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		<title>British PM calls Gaza &#039;prison camp&#039;</title>
		<link>http://madisonrafah.org/blog1/2010/07/27/british-pm-calls-gaza-prison-camp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Agence France Presse, 27 Jul 2010
ANKARA – British Prime Minister David Cameron Tuesday urged Israel to lift the blockade of the Gaza Strip, slamming the current state of the Palestinian enclave as a &#034;prison camp.&#034;
&#034;Let me be clear that the situation in Gaza has to change&#8230; Gaza cannot and must not be allowed to remain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Water in Gaza: it&#039;s not a simple problem 							</title>
		<link>http://madisonrafah.org/blog1/2010/07/24/water-in-gaza-its-not-a-simple-problem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 04:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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Palestinian children at the Oxfam water project in Gaza. (Neil Ashour)
Sarah Irving, The Electronic Intifada, 7 July 2010	
For the last year Mark Buttle has been the coordinator for the &#034;WASH cluster,&#034; the group of aid organizations working on water, sanitation and hygiene in the Gaza Strip. A chartered water engineer, Buttle has worked for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Israel Announces: No Easing for Travel of People Into and Out of Gaza</title>
		<link>http://madisonrafah.org/blog1/2010/07/24/israel-announces-no-easing-for-travel-of-people-into-and-out-of-gaza/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 03:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Request by a lawyer in Gaza for an exit permit to reach her studies in human rights and democracy in the West Bank is denied by the Israeli Supreme Court
Gisha Legal Center for Freedom of Movement, July 8, 2010
The Supreme Court yesterday rejected a petition submitted on behalf of Ms. Fatma Shatif, a human rights [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If U.S. possessed moral certainty, we would be running a Gaza airlift</title>
		<link>http://madisonrafah.org/blog1/2010/07/05/if-u-s-possessed-moral-certainty-we-would-be-running-a-gaza-airlift/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 22:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
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Alan Bickley, The Capital Times, July 5, 2010
Dear Editor: The 62nd anniversary of the start of the Berlin airlift &#8212; June 25, 1948 &#8212; passed with little attention in the media. Nineteen publications, as remote from power as the Desert Valley Times (Mesquite, Nev.) and as imperial as the lordly Washington Post, noted the largely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>European envoys accept Israel offer to visit Gaza</title>
		<link>http://madisonrafah.org/blog1/2010/07/05/european-envoys-accept-israel-offer-to-visit-gaza/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 21:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters, 5 Jul 2010
BERLIN – A delegation of European foreign ministers on Monday accepted Israel&#039;s invitation to visit the Gaza Strip and said it was an &#034;important opportunity&#034; to monitor the implementation of measures announced by Israel.
Israel has largely refused to let foreign diplomats pass through its checkpoints into Gaza since it tightened its blockade [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Israel eases Gaza closure, but restrictions remain</title>
		<link>http://madisonrafah.org/blog1/2010/07/05/israel-eases-gaza-closure-but-restrictions-remain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 21:51:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[KARIN LAUB, Associated Press, 5 Jul 2010
KEREM SHALOM CROSSING, Israel – Israel is easing its blockade of Hamas-ruled Gaza to allow in virtually all consumer goods, but the new rules are unlikely to restore the territory&#039;s devastated economy or allow rebuilding of all that was destroyed in last year&#039;s war.
The White House welcomed the changes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>July 17-18, 2010 Madison Children&#039;s Museum American Girls Benefit Sale</title>
		<link>http://madisonrafah.org/blog1/2010/06/20/july-17-18-2010-madison-childrens-museum-american-girls-benefit-sale/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 21:41:12 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Crafts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Madison-Rafah Sister City Project will participate in the second annual crafts sale at the Madison Children&#039;s Museum American Girls Benefit sale in Middleton.  NEW THIS YEAR: Doll-size traditional Palestinian embroidered dresses, shawls and scarves made by Palestinian craftswomen from Rafah and refugee camps in Lebanon.


Madison Children&#039;s Museum 
Annual Benefit Sale of American Girl [...]]]></description>
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		<title>June 22, 2010 Program: The Gaza Blockade and the Attack on the Aid Flotilla</title>
		<link>http://madisonrafah.org/blog1/2010/06/20/june-22-2010-program-the-gaza-blockade-and-the-attack-on-the-aid-flotilla/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 21:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday, June 22, 6:30 pm
Wilmar Neighborhood Center, 953 Jenifer Street, Madison [Map]
Sponsored by Madison Area Peace Coalition &#124; 
Program:
(1) Presentation by Jennifer Loewenstein on  the current situation in Gaza under the Israeli blockade, what is now known about the May 31st Israeli attack on and hijacking of the ships, and the campaign to compel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Germany blasts minister&#039;s blocked entry to Gaza</title>
		<link>http://madisonrafah.org/blog1/2010/06/20/germany-blasts-ministers-blocked-entry-to-gaza/</link>
		<comments>http://madisonrafah.org/blog1/2010/06/20/germany-blasts-ministers-blocked-entry-to-gaza/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 21:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[AFP, June 20, 2010
BERLIN – Germany on Sunday slammed Israel for preventing Development Minister Dirk Niebel from entering the Gaza Strip to meet with Palestinian refugees during his current visit to the region.
&#034;I believe that Israel has a need for transparency to render credible the idea that it is changing its political strategy towards Gaza, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Israel frees Hamas Member of Parliament held since 2006</title>
		<link>http://madisonrafah.org/blog1/2010/06/20/israel-frees-hamas-member-of-parliament-held-since-2006/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[AFP, Jun 20, 2010
JERUSALEM – Israel on Sunday released one of several Hamas MPs arrested after Gaza militants captured an Israeli soldier in a deadly cross border raid in June 2006, prison authorities said.
Naif al-Rajoub was released into the occupied West Bank because it was &#034;the end of his sentence,&#034; a spokesman said, without providing [...]]]></description>
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