News headlines for “Palestine and Israel”, page 88
MIDEAST: Children Have a Way With Miracles
- Inter Press Service
Call it that choice between looking at the half-full or half-empty part of the results. And it is almost half; 55 percent of schoolchildren passed their exams in Gaza this year.
POLITICS-US: J Street’s Muslim Funding for Peace
- Inter Press Service
News reports and right-wing blogs have been repeating reports which claim that Muslims and Arabs are among the donors to the J Street political action committee (PAC) which lobbies American policymakers to work on a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and helps raise campaign funds for candidates who share the views of J Street on promoting American leadership in the peace process.
MIDEAST: Big Challenges Ahead for Mahmoud Abbas
- Inter Press Service
Mahmoud Abbas, the 74-year-old leader of the Palestinian Fatah movement, registered a significant achievement in holding the movement’s Sixth General Conference, which has been wrapping up its business in Bethlehem in the Israeli-occupied West Bank this week.
POLITICS-US: Irish Ex-President Awarded Medal Despite Attacks
- Inter Press Service
U.S. President Barack Obama awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to former Irish President Mary Robinson Wednesday, despite a vigorous campaign from hardline supporters of Israel urging him to rescind the award.
MIDEAST: Suddenly, It's Advantage Fatah, and a Solution
- Inter Press Service
Has the just-ended Fatah party convention, concluded in a cavalcade of personnel change, affected the prospects for a two-state solution that might finally resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?
EGYPT: Israel Gas Deal Inflames Opposition
- Inter Press Service
Opposition figures and political activists have slammed a new deal to sell Egyptian liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Israel at what they say are vastly reduced prices.
MIDEAST: New Blood Invigorates Fatah Leadership
- Inter Press Service
Despite internal divisions, much criticism and against enormous odds, the Fatah movement has emerged from its Sixth Revolutionary Council here with new blood in its leadership and hopes for a fresh agenda.
POLITICS: Saudi Arabia May Not Follow Obama’s Plan
- Inter Press Service
Pro-Israeli lobbyists here won the support of 77 senators (out of 100) for a letter sent to President Barack Obama that urged him to 'press Arab leaders' to consider making dramatic, upfront peace overtures to Israel.
RIGHTS-SAUDI ARABIA: Indefinite Detention in the Name of Counterterrorism
- Inter Press Service
Human rights groups have accused Saudi Arabia of unlawfully detaining thousands of people without trial or conviction under its counterterrorism programme since 2003.
MIDEAST: Tensions Rise on Israel's North
- Inter Press Service
The war of words between Israel and the Lebanese resistance movement Hizbullah has heated up in the last week, raising fears that another war between Lebanon and Israel is imminent.
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