Bush administration struggles over Gaza approach ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Reuters by Sue Pleming - December 31, 2008 - 1:00am With three weeks to go, the Bush administration is struggling over how to tackle Middle East violence, hobbled by the exit of key diplomats and cautious after a dismal diplomatic effort in Lebanon in 2006. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and President George W. Bush have worked the phones with Western and Arab allies since Israel attacked Gaza and Hamas fired rockets into the Jewish state with the collapse of a ceasefire. » Read more

In Dense Gaza, Civilians Suffer ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times by Taghreed El-Khodary - December 31, 2008 - 1:00am A dentist stood at the bed of a doctor, his good friend Ehab Madhoun, 32, who had just died, his shrapnel-pitted body wrapped in a white shroud. » Read more

Israel's Punishing Assault on Gaza Continues for Sixth Day ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Washington Post by Sudarsan Raghavan, Griff Witte - January 1, 2009 - 1:00am A top Hamas leader and several members of his family were killed Thursday in an Israeli air strike in the Gaza Strip, as Israel pressed its offensive for a sixth day and a Hamas rocket destroyed part of an apartment building in the Israeli port city of Ashdod. » Read more