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Jihad Mughniyeh

Members and supporters of Lebanon's Hezbollah commander Mohamad Issa, known as Abu Issa, carry his coffin during his funeral in Arab-Salim in south Lebanon on January 20, 2015. He was killed in an alleged Israeli airstrike in Syria on January 18.

There are few hopes for Middle East peace at this year’s State of the Union

Conflict

Last year, President Barack Obama spoke hopefully of peace between Israel and an independent Palestine. This year, after a summer of war and the ongoing ISIS threat, Middle East peace seems further away than ever.

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