News headlines for “Palestine and Israel”, page 56
MIDEAST: On the Freedom Flight From Gaza, For a While
- Inter Press Service
I tasted freedom for the first time in three years. After being stuck in Gaza since 2007 I travelled to Malaysia for a holiday. It was like visiting another planet. Being treated like a human being and being able to experience what many young people around the world take for granted, was a miracle.
MIDEAST: On the Freedom Flight From Gaza, For a While
- Inter Press Service
I tasted freedom for the first time in three years. After being stuck in Gaza since 2007 I travelled to Malaysia for a holiday. It was like visiting another planet. Being treated like a human being and being able to experience what many young people around the world take for granted, was a miracle.
Dictators Guard Their Death Switch
- Inter Press Service
Abolition movements are gaining momentum in North Africa, but authoritarian regimes appear reluctant to remove capital punishment from the penal code.
Iran Benefits from Arab Disillusion with Obama
- Inter Press Service
U.S. President Barack Obama has suffered a sharp drop in popularity in the Arab world over the past year, and Iran may be reaping the benefits, according to a major new survey of public opinion in five Arab countries released here Thursday.
MIDEAST: Hamas Slowly Islamising Gaza
- Inter Press Service
Gazans are caught between a rock and a hard place. While Israel continues to apply a crippling siege on the coastal territory, Gaza's Hamas government is cracking down on civil and political liberties in what appears to be a campaign to slowly Islamise Gaza.
Despite Iraq Withdrawal, Greater Mideast Not Looking Good
- Inter Press Service
While President Barack Obama Monday touted the continuing U.S. military withdrawal from Iraq as a key marker in the success of his regional policies, the latest news from the Greater Middle East, as well as a new public opinion survey, is far less encouraging.
U.N. Names Panel to Probe Israeli Killings on Gaza-Bound Ship
- Inter Press Service
Despite initial misgivings, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon received the tacit approval of the Israeli government to establish an international panel to probe the widely-condemned killings of nine Turkish civilians onboard a flotilla of ships carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza last May.
ISRAEL: Women Take On the Orthodox
- Inter Press Service
Jerusalem is a city blessed but also cursed by its own holiness. No more so than here at 'Ground Zero', the religious epicentre within the walled Old City, beneath the most disputed holy site -- the Haram al-Sharif or Noble Sanctuary as known to Muslims, Har Habayit or the Temple Mount for Jews.
Dutch Christian Group Backs Settlements
- Inter Press Service
Sandwiched between giant car and furniture stores on a motorway stop-off, a blue-and-white Star of David flag droops nonchalantly on a stifling summer's day. The factory-like building beside it could easily be missed by a traveller who blinks too soon, yet the work undertaken here in the Israel Centre is far from commonplace. Its staff and management are dedicated not to the manufacturing of goods or to devising sales strategies but to drumming up support for a contentious political project: expanding Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Rape, Deception, or Racism
- Inter Press Service
'It was consensual, I owe an apology to no one other than my wife and two children. They're the ones who've suffered from this. And myself.'
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