News headlines for “Palestine and Israel”, page 43
Egyptians Pay Heavily for Uprising
- Inter Press Service
The massive economic toll of Egypt’s popular uprising appears to be motivating the government to take extraordinary and often brutal measures to put an end to massive demonstrations calling for President Hosni Mubarak to step down.
EGYPT: ElBaradei Appears an Unconvincing Alternative
- Inter Press Service
Since early last year, former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Mohamed ElBaradei has been touted as a possible successor to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. But many protesters say ElBaradei enjoys little if any credibility on the street.
Egypt’s Fate Lies in a Square
- Inter Press Service
Demonstrators who turned up in Cairo's Tahrir Square Friday in even larger numbers than on earlier days are from all walks of life: old men wearing traditional galibiyas, young people in jeans and T-shirts, and women of all ages wearing Islamic head scarves. The protesters, whose numbers across the nation are now estimated at more than one million and growing, shout variations of one slogan: 'The people want the fall of the regime!'
MIDEAST: Israelis Discover a New Love for Mubarak
- Inter Press Service
Around the world, peoples revel in anticipation of the fall of a regime that has denied its citizens their basic rights. But most Israelis are haunted by nightmare scenarios of 'the day after', as if their country's stability was anchored in the continuity of the rule of Hosni Mubarak — not in peace.
OP-ED: The Fox Guarding the Henhouse
- Inter Press Service
The extraordinary events of January 2011 in Egypt should prove one point for good: Democrat or Republican, liberal or conservative, U.S. presidents wish their favoured Arab states would forever remain nice, docile autocracies.
EGYPT: Mubarak Switches On Smear Campaign
- Inter Press Service
The regime of embattled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has unleashed a media campaign to discredit pro-democracy protestors. That comes on the back of a violent crackdown by his supporters.
Iran Shadow Touches Egypt
- Inter Press Service
The young activists who began Egypt’s popular uprising admit the online campaign that turned into the country’s largest ever anti-government street demonstrations has far exceeded their expectations. But as the movement gains momentum, protesters are beginning to think about what kind of state will emerge if President Hosni Mubarak falls. And many are worried.
MIDEAST: A Region in Flux, But Will Reforms Stick?
- Inter Press Service
As the world watched nine days of largely peaceful demonstrations in Egypt degenerate into bedlam fueled by confrontational pro-government hoodlums wielding Molotov cocktails Wednesday, observers are tracking the regional contagion of popular, reform-driven uprisings and wondering whether they are enough to usher in real change.
MIDEAST: Israeli Army Battles New Dangers Within
- Inter Press Service
They chant, 'One people, one draft!' They raise the flag of unified, across-the- board army enlistment — students and veterans wearing scars of past wars from a few dozen mainstream Zionist civil society organisations and youth movements.
Arabs Push for Stability in Lebanon
- Inter Press Service
With political crises in Egypt and Tunisia overshadowing other issues in the Middle East, the appointment of billionaire Najib Mikati as Lebanon’s new prime minister is winning regional support in the hope that the change will minimize instability in yet another Arab country. Many questions are arising, however, about the formation of the new government and how much clout Hezbollah will have over it.
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