News headlines for “Palestine and Israel”, page 97
LEBANON: Hizbullah Punching Above Its Numbers
- Inter Press Service
Understanding Lebanon's complex political system is no easy task. In a relatively small country of about four million, Lebanon has more than 18 religious communities and dozens of active political parties. The sectarian political system divides the 128 seats of parliament between 10 of those religious sects, leaving one for minorities.
EGYPT: 'Obama Talks Democracy, Endorses Dictatorship'
- Inter Press Service
Egyptian officials are lining up to praise U.S. President Barack Obama's address to the Islamic world delivered in Cairo Thursday. But local campaigners for political reform say the speech was disappointingly light on the issues of democracy and human rights.
MIDEAST: Lebanese Polls Closely Watched by U.S. and Region
- Inter Press Service
After emerging from a political crisis last year, the Lebanese people will head to the polls Jun. 7 to determine the composition of the new parliament. A variety of foreign powers, including the U.S., will be watching closely, waiting for the electoral results before they determine their policies towards the new government.
US-MIDEAST: Hamas Leader to Obama: Deeds, Not Words
- Inter Press Service
The head of Hamas’s political bureau, Khaled Meshaal, gave a qualified welcome here Thursday to the big speech that Pres. Barack Obama addressed to the Muslim world in Cairo.
MIDEAST: 'Lay Down Your Pain, Lay Down Your Arms'
- Inter Press Service
U.S. President Barack Obama drew widespread, if in some quarters, guarded praise from around the region as he labelled the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, Israelis and the Arab world the No. 2 issue (behind the extremism of a minority of Muslims) that needs addressing if relations between the U.S. and the Muslim world are to be changed for the better.
U.S.: Obama Appeals to Muslim World for 'New Beginning'
- Inter Press Service
In what was perhaps the most widely anticipated speech delivered by a U.S. president abroad in recent memory, Barack Obama Thursday extended a hand to the world’s 1.4 billion Muslims, receiving repeated applause and a standing ovation from the audience at Cairo University in the Egyptian capital.
US-MIDEAST: Cairo Speech Widely Hailed at Home
- Inter Press Service
U.S. President Barack Obama’s historic speech in Cairo Thursday elicited broad approval from around the U.S., with the notable exception of the neoconservative right.
POLITICS-US: Hawks Push 'Jordanian Option' for Palestine
- Inter Press Service
As U.S. President Barack Obama prepares to deliver a major foreign policy speech in Cairo and his administration pushes aggressively for a two-state solution in Israel-Palestine, neoconservatives and other foreign policy hawks back home are calling on him to scrap the two-state solution altogether and consider alternatives to Palestinian statehood.
POLITICS-US: Report Ties Dubious Iran Nuclear Docs to Israel
- Inter Press Service
A report on Iran’s nuclear programme issued by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last month generated news stories publicising an incendiary charge that U.S. intelligence is underestimating Iran’s progress in designing a 'nuclear warhead' before the halt in nuclear weapons-related research in 2003.
US-MIDEAST: Obama Overture Fraught With Stumbling Blocks
- Inter Press Service
In his most widely anticipated speech to date, U.S. President Barack Obama will reach out directly to the Muslim world Thursday morning at Cairo University.
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