News headlines for “Palestine and Israel”, page 83
POLITICS-US: Democrats Disgruntled as Obama Fails to Deliver
- Inter Press Service
Since before taking office, U.S. President Barack Obama has been no stranger to being in the crosshairs of Republican pundits who have accused him of everything from bring a 'secret communist' to a tax-and-spend liberal who would oversee huge expansions in the federal government.
MIDEAST: Finally Taking Off Their Gloves
- Inter Press Service
Amazingly, just when all four parties - the U.S., its allies in the Arab world, the Palestinian Authority, and Israel - seemed to have hit rock bottom in terms of the prospects of moving the region away from conflict and towards peace, all of a sudden everything seems to be pointing in the exact opposition direction.
MIDEAST: Voices of Gloom Get Louder
- Inter Press Service
Three Israeli soldiers, automatic rifles slung across their shoulders, are questioning a group of Palestinian builders. The top floors being added to the concrete house that lies right alongside Israel's security wall which divides off occupied East Jerusalem from Palestinian territory on the eastern side of the wall have evidently aroused some concern.
EGYPT: Virtually, Some Real Freedom
- Inter Press Service
Egyptians critical of their government are using new media and the Internet to expose its improprieties and press for social change.
ISRAEL-US: Goldstone Rejects Netanyahu Remarks
- Inter Press Service
The head of the U.N. commission that investigated the December-January Gaza war Thursday rejected assertions by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that any action to pursue the recommendations of his commission's report could prove fatal to any renewed peace process with the Palestinians.
MIDEAST: A Diplomat Visits, and Listens
- Inter Press Service
The U.S. consulate on Agron Street is something alien in the carefully calibrated diplomatic world of Arab-Israeli politics.
MIDEAST: Riots May Point to Third Palestinian Uprising
- Inter Press Service
Palestinian politicians and Israeli political analysts are warning of a third Palestinian Intifadah following serious rioting in East Jerusalem last Sunday.
MIDEAST: A Good Time Not to Make Peace
- Inter Press Service
Most analysts agree that the past week of Middle East diplomacy has actually set back the cause of peacemaking. If they are right that the intensive U.S.-led effort has actually diminished prospects for a breakthrough towards Palestinian-Israel peace, who is to blame?
US-MIDEAST: A Week of Dimming Peace Prospects
- Inter Press Service
Eight months after Barack Obama launched his presidency by promising a speedy push for Palestinian-Israeli peace, that effort has stalled badly. And there are now growing fears that the top levels of Obama's peace team are torn by internal disagreements that may undermine the whole peace effort.
MIDEAST: Jerusalem Palestinians Defining Their Own Future
- Inter Press Service
Almost a year ago a barely noticed event took place in Sawarha, a Palestinian neighbourhood in the Israeli-occupied part of the city.
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