News headlines for “Palestine and Israel”, page 95
EGYPT: Unquiet Flows the Nile
- Inter Press Service
Differences over sharing of Nile waters may have deepened following the failure among the nine countries along the Nile to come to an agreement.
MIDEAST: Aid Agencies Slam Gaza Blockade
- Inter Press Service
Forty international aid agencies and NGOs have released a joint statement condemning Israel's blockade of Gaza, to mark the second anniversary of the coastal territory being hermetically sealed off from the outside world.
LEBANON: Defeated Shias Ponder Uncertain Future
- Inter Press Service
A large highway cuts through the green hills connecting Lebanon's south to the Mediterranean Sea. Here, nestled amid banana trees and colourful bougainvillea bushes, lies the city of Tyre, a bastion of the Shia community and a significant base of the Lebanese opposition. Now, following the parliamentary elections and the victory of the March 14 political group, Shias of the south are asking what lies in store for them.
US-MIDEAST: Carter Adds Weight to Shuttle Diplomacy Push
- Inter Press Service
Pres. Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and peace envoy Sen. George Mitchell have been moving steadily ahead with the campaign Obama launched on his first day in the White House, to broker a comprehensive and sustainable Arab-Israeli peace.
MIDEAST: Attack on Water Brings Sanitation Crisis
- Inter Press Service
'Biddun mey, fish heyya', they say in Arabic for a universal truth: 'Without water, there is no life'.
POPULATION: The Worst Places to Be a Refugee
- Inter Press Service
Gaza, South Africa and Thailand are among the world's worst places to be a refugee, according to the latest annual World Refugee Survey released here Wednesday by the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI).
US-MIDEAST: Parsing Netanyahu’s Palestinian State
- Inter Press Service
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has laid out his terms for peace in the Middle East. In a highly anticipated speech at Israel’s Bar-Ilan University last Sunday, Netanyahu said for the first time that he was willing to consider a 'demilitarised' Palestinian state, existing side by side with Israel.
MIGRATION: Pakistan Refugee Crisis Worst in a Decade, U.N. Says
- Inter Press Service
Forty-two million people were forcibly uprooted by conflict and persecution worldwide in 2008, said a new report by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) released Tuesday.
MIDEAST: Netanyahu Offer a 'Big Zero'
- Inter Press Service
Yasser Abed Rabbo, secretary of the Palestine Liberation Organisation's executive committee, and a close confidant of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, has dismissed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's foreign policy speech Sunday night as a big zero.
MIDEAST: Peace Talk Without Peace Vision
- Inter Press Service
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's much anticipated policy speech about his peace intentions was suffused with peace rhetoric, but it was starkly short on a peace vision.
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