News and Analysis (11/10/06)

Haniyeh would rather be right than prime minister:

• Hamas PM Ready to Step Down to End Aid Freeze (AFP)

Violations of cease-fire continue:

• UN urges Israel to end flights over Lebanon (Reuters)

Rumsfeld acknowledges that the extremists pose “stiff challenges”:

• Al-Qaeda Claims It Has 12,000 Fighters For An Islamic Iraq (AFP)

John Pilger asks, why stop at Saddam?

• Saddam: Let’s Now Charge The Accomplices (New Statesman)

How it’s done:

• In Letter, Radical Cleric Details CIA Abduction, Egyptian Torture (Washington Post)

Hamas resumes talks with Fatah

• Talks Resume On Government As Gaza Bury Its Dead (Financial Times)

As we keep saying, it is a conflict WITHIN civilizations:

• Gaza Killings Divide Israel (Reuters)