News headlines for “Palestine and Israel”, page 101
EGYPT: Move to End Organ Trafficking
- Inter Press Service
Egypt's parliament is set to review a long-overdue draft law to regulate organ transplant operations. If passed, the legislation could make more human organs available for transplant, and curtail the country's booming organ trade.
MIDEAST: Netanyahu Out of Step With Obama
- Inter Press Service
A day before he enters what some Middle East analysts are calling not the Oval office but the lion's den, Benjamin Netanyahu, re-incarnated as Israel's leader, is determined not to be easy meat but also, on the other hand, not to become a bone in the throat of his host, President Barack Obama.
POLITICS: U.S.-Israel Balance Echoes Tensions of 1991
- Inter Press Service
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet with Pres. Barack Obama in Washington next Monday, amid speculation that their two administrations may be heading for a confrontation worse than any they have known since 1991-92.
ENVIRONMENT: West Bank Becomes Waste Land
- Inter Press Service
Israel has found a cheap and easy way to get rid of its waste, much of it hazardous: dump it into the West Bank. A few Palestinians can be bought, the rest are in no position to complain.
US-MIDEAST: Lobbies Gear Up Ahead of Bibi-Barack Meet
- Inter Press Service
In the months since U.S. President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have taken office, there has been lots of noise made about the relationship between the two men and their respective countries.
EGYPT: Fears Rise Over Spate of Missing Children
- Inter Press Service
A surge in reports of missing children has set off alarm across the Egyptian countryside. The fears are being fed both by reports and rumour.
MIDEAST: 'Hamas Against Zionist Ideology, Not Judaism'
- Inter Press Service
A founding member of Hamas says he hates all weapons and insists that his organisation is not anti-Jewish.
MIDEAST: Israel Expanding 'Beautifully' In Jerusalem
- Inter Press Service
Even as Pope Benedict XVI tries his best during his current Holy Land visit to pay reverence to the attachment of all three monotheistic faiths to Jerusalem, on the ground a less lofty imprint is already furthering Israeli control over the Holy City in a way that could threaten the claims of all but Jews to Jerusalem.
MIDEAST: Families Down to a Meal a Day
- Inter Press Service
Um Abdullah cannot remember the last time she was able to feed meat to her eight children. She does know that for the past week the single meal she cooked for them each day consisted only of lentils. And that on one day, she had received aid coupons from the United Nations, which she subsequently sold to buy tomatoes and eggplant at the local market.
MIDEAST: Who Does Not Target the Media
- Inter Press Service
Palestinian journalists in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip continue to be arrested and harassed by the respective security forces of the divided Palestinian leadership. And from Israel, a belated freedom has come to cover Gaza, but amidst other concerns.
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