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** FILE** A Palestinian watches a sunset in Gaza City, Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

‘Modesty police’ arrests ratchet fears of radicalized Islam in Gaza

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this Dec. 9, 2012, file photo, Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal waves during his visit to the Islamic University in Gaza City. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa, File)

Hamas bulldozes cultural site to make way for ‘terrorist training camp’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this Thursday, March 28, 2013, file image taken from video obtained from the Ugarit News, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, fighters from the Syrian Free Army fire on a Syrian army position in Deal less than 15 kilometers (10 miles) from the Jordanian border in Daraa province, Syria. (AP Photo/Ugarit News via AP video, File)

Hamas cuts ties with Assad and sends military to train rebels

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Izzedine Al-Qassam Brigades militants carry a mock coffin of Maysara Abu Hamdiyeh in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, April 2, 2013. Abu Hamdiyeh, 64, who was serving a life sentence for his role in a foiled attempt to bomb a busy cafe in Jerusalem in 2002, died Tuesday of cancer in an Israeli jail. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Israel, Gaza militants trade fire as cease-fire crumbles

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

PHILLIPS: Obama’s Middle East challenges

By James Phillips - Special to The Washington Times

** FILE ** A Palestinian girl waits inside a school in Gaza City, Nov. 21, 2012. (Associated Press)

Hamas introduces law in Gaza to ban integration of males, females older than 9

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Muslim Brotherhood and Egyptian President Morsi supporters chant slogans during a funeral of three victims who were killed during Wednesday's clashes outside Al Azhar mosque, the highest Islamic Sunni institution, Friday, Dec. 7, 2012. During the funeral, thousands Islamist mourners chanted, "with blood and soul, we redeem Islam," pumping their fists in the air. "Egypt is Islamic, it will not be secular, it will not be liberal," they chanted as they walked in a funeral procession that filled streets around Al-Azhar mosque. Thousands of Egyptians took to the streets after Friday midday prayers in rival rallies and marches across Cairo, as the standoff deepened over what opponents call the Islamist president's power grab, raising the specter of more violence. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood filling pro-Western military’s ranks with Islamists

By Bill Gertz

**FILE** President Obama and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speak to reporters during their joint news conference at the Muqata President Compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah on March 21, 2013. (Associated Press)

Obama condemns rocket attacks in Israel, meets with Abbas

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Israeli police walk through the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, also known to Jews as the Temple Mount, in Jerusalem's Old City on Wednesday, March 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)

EDITORIAL: A line in the sand

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Hamas vows amnesty, money for Palestinians who admit spying

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** FILE ** About 30,000 participants run along the Potomac River near the Lincoln Memorial during the annual 26.2-long Marine Corps Marathon in 2008. (The Washington Times)

U.N. cancels Gaza marathon over Hamas ban on women

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

**FILE** Palestinian supporters of Hamas wave flags during a rally in the West Bank city of Tulkarem on Dec. 14, 2012, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the militant group. (Associated Press)

Hamas launches campaign to root out Israeli spies

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Palestinians and foreign activists chant slogans as they march with their hands chained together during a protest held in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails in Gaza City, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Hamas takes control of crucial Israeli border crossing

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Israeli police walk through the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, also known to Jews as the Temple Mount, in Jerusalem's Old City on Wednesday, March 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)

Hamas warns Obama: Don’t visit Temple Mount

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

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MEYERS: Will Obama take a detour to Hamas?

By David Meyers

Illustration Muslim Hope by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

GAFFNEY: Obama’s ‘friends of Hamas’?

By Frank J. Gaffney Jr. - The Washington Times

** File ** A Palestinian Hamas militant walks in the rubble of the southern Gaza Strip, Nov. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Eyad Baba)

Terror group Hamas launches own news organization

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Palestinian women hold pictures of prisoners jailed in Israel during a rally calling for their release, in the West Bank city of Nablus, Monday, Feb. 4, 2013. Israeli forces arrested 20 members of the Palestinian militant group Hamas, including three lawmakers, in a raid early Monday in the West Bank, Hamas officials said. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)

Israel arrests 20 Hamas members in West Bank raid

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

**FILE** Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas prime minister of the Gaza Strip, delivers a speech in front of portraits of the late Iranian revolutionary founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (left), and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during a visit to Tehran on Feb. 11, 2012. (Associated Press)

Hamas to establish military academy for Gaza children

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Then-Sen. Chuck Hagel, Nebraska Republican, speaks on foreign policy at the Brookings Institution in Washington in 2008. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

Pentagon begins campaign to bust ‘myths’ about nominee Hagel

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times