News headlines for “Palestine and Israel”, page 92
MIDEAST: Report Urges Continued U.S. Diplomatic Push
- Inter Press Service
The U.S. should proceed cautiously in its engagement strategy with Iran, while moving quickly toward final-status negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians, according to a new report by a team of veteran diplomats and Middle East policymakers.
EGYPT: Father Still Knows Best
- Inter Press Service
Speculation had been rife in recent months that parliament was on the verge of dissolution by order of the presidency. While the rumour ultimately proved unfounded, local analysts say it reflected a rift between the old and new guards of the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) of President Hosni Mubarak.
MIDEAST: Soldiers' Voices Rise Again
- Inter Press Service
Israel continues to brush off allegations of human rights violations during its military campaign against Hamas in Gaza launched at the end of December. A series of reports on such violations through the 22-day campaign come soon after completion of fieldwork by the UN human rights four-person fact-finding team headed by South African jurist Richard Goldstone.
POLITICS: U.S.-Based Leading Rights Group Denies Improprieties
- Inter Press Service
After its May trip to Saudi Arabia recently garnered attention, New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) has come under a hailstorm of criticism by defenders of Israeli policy who claim that the trip raises ethical questions about HRW's work in the Middle East.
EGYPT: 230 Death Sentences in Six Months
- Inter Press Service
Egyptian courts have handed down unprecedented numbers of death sentences in recent months, most of them for violent crime. 'Two hundred and thirty death sentences in six months', read the Jun. 24 headline of independent daily Al- Dustour. 'Fifty in the last week alone'.
MIGRATION: U.S. to Admit Palestinian Refugees from Iraq
- Inter Press Service
Approximately 1,350 Palestinian refugees from Iraq are being considered for resettlement in the U.S. after being referred to the U.S. Refugee Admissions Programme by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
MIDEAST: Malnutrition Begins to Bite
- Inter Press Service
'No one is buying meat these days,' says Yousef Al-Jerjowi, sitting next to his butcher shop devoid of customers.
MIDEAST: What Do You Call It
- Inter Press Service
What's a name, what's in a road name? History, ideology, nationalism.
MIDEAST: Israeli Spy Ring Threatens Fragile Peace
- Inter Press Service
The UN Security Council has warned that the existence of a large Israeli-run espionage network in Lebanon could threaten a fragile peace established between the two countries following the end of the 2006 Israel-Lebanon war.
EUROPE: A Year On, Sarkozy's Euromed Struggles
- Inter Press Service
A year ago Monday, French President Nicolas Sarkozy launched the Union for the Mediterranean, or Euromed, a grouping of European Union nations plus 16 non- EU Mediterranean states. Since then, critics say, the initiative has made little tangible progress.
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