News headlines for “Palestine and Israel”, page 76
Q&A: ''U.S. Grand Bargain Can Save Israel From Itself''
- Inter Press Service
Resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict along the two-state parameters seems less with Israel torn between accepting a Palestinian state and the settler ideology which calls for Israel’s exclusive rule over the whole of Jerusalem and the West Bank.
MIDEAST: Israel Declares War on Peace NGOs
- Inter Press Service
One year after the devastating attack on Hamas in Gaza a new wave of reports castigating Israel for war crimes has emerged.
US-LEBANON: Hard Line on Hezbollah Clashes with Political Reality
- Inter Press Service
Lebanese President Michel Sleiman visited Washington last week, for his first visit with President Barack Obama. The meeting was a quick one, tucked in amongst the myriad of domestic issues that are demanding Obama's attention.
MIDEAST: ‘’What About the Mailboxes?’’
- Inter Press Service
The sun is about to set over Jabel Mukaber. The call of the muezzin envelops the valley beneath Naim Aweisat’s balcony and, rolling from the mosques of Abu Dis across the wall in the West Bank, rebounds from the stark concrete Israeli security wall to answer the minarets that peer over the walled Old City.
MIDEAST: Gaza March Puts Spotlight on Civilian Suffering
- Inter Press Service
More than 50,000 people are expected to take to the streets of Gaza on Dec. 31 for a mass march designed to send a message to the United States, a key supporter of Israel's army, that the situation in Gaza violates international human rights laws.
JORDAN: Palestinian Refugees Live Out Lives in Limbo
- Inter Press Service
Music enlivens the yellow taxi as it traverses the Jordanian capital. A small Palestinian flag hangs from the rearview mirror. Jihad, the cab driver, says his father fled here from the Palestinian West Bank in 1948.
EUROPE: Cosy With Israel, Despite the Headlines
- Inter Press Service
Israel's relations with the European Union were tense for most of 2009 - if newspaper headlines are to be believed. In the past week, a British court drew fierce criticism from Israeli politicians after it issued an arrest warrant for Tzipi Livni, the former Israeli foreign minister, following a complaint that she had authorised war crimes in Gaza.
MIDEAST: Occupation Eats Away Israel's Heart and Soul
- Inter Press Service
After Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank torched a mosque and desecrated copies of the Quran in the Palestinian village of Yasuf, last Friday morning, they ran into a wall of condemnation.
LEBANON: Hizbullah Fortifies Frontier Against Israel
- Inter Press Service
In the mountains towering above this southern city, Hizbullah (Party of God) is building a new line of defence on lands where a fierce war was once fought between the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) and Israel.
MIDEAST: Human Rights Deteriorated in 2009, Report Warns
- Inter Press Service
Human rights abuses in Arab countries increased throughout the Middle East and North Africa during 2009, according to the annual report of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, released earlier this week.
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