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Monday, January 5, 2009
Palestinian girl cries during funeral of a relative killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza Strip (AP Photo/Fadi Adwan)
 
As Israeli troops and tanks tighten their grip on Gaza and Palestinian casualties mount, senior Israeli officials say the fighting could go on for days, if not weeks, and that calls for a cease-fire are premature. Today we'll get two perspectives on the crisis.






 
 
 
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Siege on Gaza Continues - Part I  
Rashid Khalidi — Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia University; Author of The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood and the forthcoming book Sowing Crisis: American Dominance and the Cold War in the Middle East
Siege on Gaza Continues - Part II  
Amotz Asa-El — Columnist for the Jerusalem Post; Fellow at the Shalem Center, a Jerusalem-based think tank
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