Global Issues
News headlines for “Palestine and Israel”, page 39
MIDEAST: Obama Besieged by Policy Challenges
- Inter Press Service
Rarely, if ever, has a post-World War II U.S. president been beset by so many foreign policy challenges and uncertainties in one key geo-strategic region at the same time.
BOOKS: Exposé Questions EU's Role as 'Honest Broker' in Mideast
- Inter Press Service
Sixty-five years ago, six million Jews perished in concentration camps across Nazi Germany, while the rest of Europe watched silently. Today, says political journalist David Cronin, the world is again witnessing what he calls Europe's 'blood-soaked foreign policy' in the Middle East, where billions of Euros are enabling Israel's illegal and inhumane occupation of Palestine.
Q&A: ‘Women Are Shackled During Childbirth’
- Inter Press Service
Female Palestinian prisoners detained in Israel are often denied legal representation and medical care while being housed in squalid conditions that can include sharing cells with rodents.
WOMEN'S DAY: An Arab Israeli Woman Fighting on All Fronts
- Inter Press Service
'Every woman is a woman of frustration. Me, I'm just struggle.' Hanin Zoabi, 41, is a Palestinian Israeli woman, a fighting woman. An elected member of the Israeli Knesset parliament, she is the first woman on an Arab party's list, Balad.
Views of U.S. Influence Steadily Climb Under Obama
- Inter Press Service
For the third straight year, views of the United States continued to improve during 2010, according to the annual BBC World Service Country Rating Poll released Monday.
EGYPT: Mubarak Regime ‘Provoked’ Attacks on Christians
- Inter Press Service
Ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak portrayed himself as a paradigm of stability in a country he once described as a 'powder keg' of sectarian unrest. Yet far from promoting stability, his regime may have actually been the source of much of the religious strife it claimed to suppress.
Israel Grows Ever-Harsher in Treatment of Migrants
- Inter Press Service
A new report from the Global Detention Project (GDP) on Israel's immigration detention policies reveals the tough reality behind the feel-good story offered in the Academy Award-winning 'Strangers No More', an inspirational documentary about students from migrant families who attend the Bialik-Rogozin school in Tel Aviv.
Pro-Peace Jewish Lobby Group Urges Obama to Seize Moment
- Inter Press Service
J Street, the Washington-based 'Pro-Israel, Pro-Peace' advocacy group, drew a large crowd to its annual conference this year despite criticism over its controversial calls for the Barack Obama administration not to veto a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank.
MIDEAST: Gaza Protesters Prepare for March 15
- Inter Press Service
A look at the Tunisian and Egyptian uprisings that succeeded in ousting long- entrenched dictators confirms a universal truth: it is the youth who are leading the way in forcing reform in the Middle East.
'New Egypt' the Wild Card in Stalled Mideast Peace Process
- Inter Press Service
The ability of the United States to broker a successful Palestinian-Israeli peace agreement will hinge on the future of Israeli-Egyptian relations, a panel of experts at the Palestinian Centre argued here Thursday.
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