News headlines for “Palestine and Israel”, page 107
MIDEAST: The Lines Are Getting Redrawn
- Inter Press Service
The rival Palestinian parties Fatah and Hamas, the Arab League, the EU and the new U.S. administration all appear to have found common ground against Israel's continued occupation of the West Bank.
TURKEY: Obama Offers Islam a Handshake
- Inter Press Service
On his first visit to a Muslim country this week, U.S. President Barack Obama proposed 'a new chapter' in U.S. engagement with the Islamic world. He drew much praise, while some remain skeptical.
EGYPT: State Security Blunts 'Day of Anger'
- Inter Press Service
Egyptians expressed their discontent Monday with rising prices and political stagnation in a national 'day of anger' organised by online activists. Although smaller in scope than a nationwide strike on this date last year, opposition figures say the demonstrations across the country made their point.
MIDEAST: It Will Take the World to Save These Homes
- Inter Press Service
Orthodox Israeli settlers, backed by soldiers and police, attacked Palestinian residents of the Sa'diyya neighbourhood of occupied East Jerusalem Sunday evening, four days after the settler group invaded the home of the Jabir family and extra-judicially evicted them.
MIDEAST: Lost in the Buffer Zone
- Inter Press Service
'They're always shooting at us. Every day they shoot at us,' says Alaa Samour (19), pulling aside his shirt to show a scar on his shoulder. Samour said he was shot on Dec. 28 last year by Israeli soldiers positioned along the border fence near New Abassan village, east of Khan Younis in the south of the Gaza Strip.
EUROPE: Made in Israeli Settlements, But Never Mind
- Inter Press Service
European Union officials are seeking evidence to support claims that fruit and vegetables from Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories are being exported under false pretence.
MIDEAST: Obama's Lieberman Problem
- Inter Press Service
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government was sworn in Tuesday - just one day later his foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, set off a firestorm by saying he judged Israel was no longer bound by agreements reached at the late-2007 peace conference convened by the U.S. in Annapolis, Maryland.
MIDEAST: Big Powers Moving In on Gaza
- Inter Press Service
Nine NATO member states agreed last month to utilise naval, intelligence and diplomatic resources to combat the alleged flow of arms into the Gaza Strip. Some Egyptian commentators see the move as a surreptitious means of cementing foreign control over the region.
MIDEAST: All Unclear Over Israeli Policy
- Inter Press Service
How genuine is Israel's new leadership about peace when the Prime Minister says that he will go a long way towards striving for a settlement with the Palestinians, but purposefully omits to endorse an independent Palestinian state; and, when his foreign minister warns, 'If you want peace, prepare for war', a blunt statement on which the prime minister stays studiously silent?
POLITICS: In Reversal, U.S. to Engage With Human Rights Council
- Inter Press Service
The Barack Obama administration’s decision this week to seek a seat on the world’s top human rights body has affirmed the hopes of many activist groups that the United States will take a far more multilateral approach to diplomacy than in the past.
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