News headlines for “Palestine and Israel”, page 65
MIDEAST: Children Fight Off Israel With Music
- Inter Press Service
'Why are you rushing? Isn't it nicer like this?' Mohammed Omer, oud teacher (an oud is similar to a lute) at the Gaza Music School, asks his student. Omer takes the oud and demonstrates, playing the song slowly, gracefully, with the ornamentations that are key to Arab music.
MIDEAST: Is Israel Sliding Towards a Police State?
- Inter Press Service
Israeli nuclear whistle-blower Mordechai Vanunu has been sentenced to another three months imprisonment for allegedly refusing to perform community service in West Jerusalem.
MIDEAST: Israeli Settlers Step Up Attacks on Palestinian Mosques
- Inter Press Service
'There is immense anger as well as a feeling of vulnerability and fear when a place of sanctuary and holiness is subject to indiscriminate violence,' says Issa Hussein.
MIDEAST: West Bankers Made Refugees in Their Own Country
- Inter Press Service
Several Palestinians have set up a protest tent in no-man’s land in the northern Gaza Strip, near the Erez border crossing into Israel, as they protest their deportation from the Israeli occupied West Bank into Gaza where Hamas authorities have refused them entry.
Will Mideast Tug-Of-War Wreck Anti-Nuke Meet?
- Inter Press Service
When the last review conference on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) ended inconclusively - after four long weeks of protracted negotiations - the meeting was described as having accomplished 'very little' with no substantive agreement.
MIDEAST: Hope Amidst Grim Prospects for Peace
- Inter Press Service
Proximity peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians, due to begin shortly after months of delay due to Israel’s continued settlement building on occupied Palestinian land, appear to have little chance of making a breakthrough.
Jerusalem Divided Between Hats and Hearts
- Inter Press Service
There's a Jerusalem saying that the city wears too many hats -- Jewish hats, Muslim hats, Christian hats -- so it's difficult to get at its brain.
Zarqa Lives Up to al-Zarqawi’s Ideals
- Inter Press Service
Infamous for being the hometown of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the late al-Qaeda’s leader, Zarqa is dominated by Islamic parties.
Israel, Iran Targeted at Nuke Non-Proliferation Meet
- Inter Press Service
A month-long Review Conference on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) began Monday with a predictable target: Israel.
Gaza 'World Cup' Scores Several Goals
- Inter Press Service
Football is the world's most popular sport, boasting more than an estimated 2 billion fans. And despite its isolation from the world through Israel's four-year- old blockade, the Gaza Strip is no exception. When a football match is on, tea and shisha cafes are packed with people gathered around the TV sets.
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