Global Issues
News headlines for “Palestine and Israel”, page 38
Israel Warns Against Recognition Of Independent Palestine
- Inter Press Service
The Israeli government has warned the U.N. Security Council and the EU that it will resort to unilateral countermeasures if the international community recognises Palestine as an independent state at the General Assembly session next September.
LEBANON: Hezbollah Treads A Narrowing Path
- Inter Press Service
In spite of its recent successes, Hezbollah seems to be experiencing increasing difficulty in harmonizing the interests of its Shiite constituency and those of its Iranian patrons as it delves into the chaos of Lebanese politics.
Netanyahu Caught Between Status Quo And Power Vacuum
- Inter Press Service
Disregarding the old adage that politics like nature abhors a vacuum, Benjamin Netanyahu could until now sing his own praise and declare that Israel under his premiership was an anchor of political stability whereas the wider Middle East was fast sinking into a power vacuum.
Israel Accused of 'A Form of Ethnic Cleansing'
- Inter Press Service
'If the regime that encourages incitement, racism and anti-democracy is not toppled soon, we will find that the future is already here,' says Israeli columnist Sefi Rachlevsky in the Israeli daily 'Haaretz'.
Settlers Observe 'Day Of Rage' Pouring Wrath On Palestinians
- Inter Press Service
Israeli settlers observed their own 'Day of Rage' last Thursday, launching reprisal attacks on Palestinians for the recent murder of a settler family in an illegal Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank, and the demolition of a settlement structure by the Israeli authorities.
FILM: What a Palestinian Girl Saw Through Her Window
- Inter Press Service
At the 331st meeting of the Committee on the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People held at United Nations headquarters Thursday, delegates made speeches most likely doomed to be lost in the abyss of countless Security Council resolutions, numerous rulings by the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the basic provisions of the Geneva Conventions.
'Buy Gaza' Movement Gains Momentum
- Inter Press Service
Palestinians are calling for boycotts against Israeli products and companies. But in the Gaza Strip -- at the heart of the Israeli occupation -- it is often impossible for residents to follow their own call to action.
Israel Deploys a Miniature Missile Defence System
- Inter Press Service
Amidst recrudescence of tension on this critical front, the Israeli army is hoping to gain the technological upper hand in missile combat with 'Palestinian militants' by equipping one of its most sophisticated tanks with a miniature missile defence system.
Palestinian Protests Mark 'March 15 Day of Rage'
- Inter Press Service
Tens of thousands of Palestinians from across the political spectrum took to the streets throughout the West Bank and Gaza on Tuesday to mark 'March 15, the day of rage' to protest the political division between Hamas and Fatah.
Palestinian Village Under Siege Following Settler Killings
- Inter Press Service
Food supplies are running low, ambulances have been detained for hours at checkpoints, and hundreds of young men have been held, interrogated and beaten up, some requiring hospitalisation, in the Palestinian village of Awarta in the northern West Bank. The village has been under continuous curfew for four days.
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