News headlines for “Palestine and Israel”, page 80
RIGHTS: Palestinian Women Suffer as Israel Violates CEDAW
- Inter Press Service
Palestinian women continue to suffer abuse and denial of basic human rights at the hands of Israeli settlers and soldiers in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
MIDEAST: Peace Plan May Yet Survive New Twists
- Inter Press Service
U.S. President Obama's Middle East engagement policy reverses the unsuccessful policy of his predecessor, but the U.S. is again committing faux pas aplenty.
U.S.: Congress Out of Step with Public on Intl Law?
- Inter Press Service
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a non-binding resolution Tuesday condemning the Goldstone Report on Israeli and Hamas actions taking during the Gaza War as 'irredeemably biased' against Israel and calling on U.S. President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to oppose any consideration of the report in multilateral fora, such as the United Nations.
Q&A: 'This Calm Will Not Last'
- Inter Press Service
Leila Khaled became an instant icon of the Palestinian struggle in 1969, when at 24 she was an operative in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacking of a Boeing 707, the first in a series of high-profile actions intended to put the Palestinians on the political map.
U.S.: Obama's Outreach to Muslim World Teetering
- Inter Press Service
U.S. President Barack Obama's extraordinary efforts since his first days in office to reassure Muslims in the Greater Middle East about U.S. intentions in the region have suffered a series of setbacks that threaten to reverse whatever gains he has made over the past 10 months in restoring Washington's badly battered image and influence there.
MIDEAST: Israel Divided Over 'Illegal' Children
- Inter Press Service
'Migrant workers bring with them a profusion of diseases - hepatitis, measles, tuberculosis, AIDS and drug addiction: Our critics can be as sanctimonious as they like, but unless we stop the wave of migrant workers, the whole character of the State of Israel, its Jewish character, will be under threat.'
MIDEAST: Israelis Show the Light to Palestinian Herders
- Inter Press Service
Hundreds of impoverished Palestinian herders and farmers living in caves and tents in a remote area of the Palestinian West Bank have been provided free electricity due to the ingenuity of two Israeli physicists.
U.S.: Rights Groups Condemn Bid to Quash Goldstone Report
- Inter Press Service
International human rights groups have raised concern over a proposed non-binding resolution in the U.S. House Representatives which would call on the White House to oppose any future endorsement or consideration of Judge Richard Goldstone's 'Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict'.
MIDEAST: Harvesting in Death Zone, With a Song
- Inter Press Service
On a quiet October morning, Fida Zaneen, 19, sings a traditional love song as she pulls olives from trees in Beit Hanoun's border region during the annual olive harvest.
MIDEAST: Palestinians File Lawsuits Over Gaza War
- Inter Press Service
As the legal and moral implications of the UN Goldstone report on Israel's military assault on Gaza continue to mount, Gazans are taking matters into their own hands and preparing civil lawsuits.
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