News headlines for “Palestine and Israel”, page 99
MIDEAST: Palestinians Honour Holocaust Victims
- Inter Press Service
On a cool and overcast day, a procession of grim-faced people filed silently past pictures of heaps of skeletons piled high, of emaciated survivors with blank stares corralled behind barbed wire, barely clinging to life.
MIDEAST: Israel Threatens to Outlaw Palestinian Memory
- Inter Press Service
Israel is set to approve a radical new bill which threatens to legalise discrimination against its sizeable Arab minority for the first time.
MIDEAST: Gaza Collects So Much Rubbish
- Inter Press Service
Suliman Khodari begins his shift at 5am on one of Gaza City's busiest streets. With his horse-drawn cart, Suliman spends seven hours every morning hauling away the rubbish left by residents and shop owners of the neighbourhood. But he is not a scavenger.
MIDEAST: Humanitarian Crisis Deepens in West Bank
- Inter Press Service
'I heard voices, I turned around to look, and saw a group of Israeli settlers assaulting my brother Hammad,' says Abdallah Wahadin, 82, a Palestinian farmer from Beit Ummar near the southern West Bank city of Hebron.
MIDEAST: Political Clouds Hang Over UNESCO Selection
- Inter Press Service
With only a few days left before the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) nominates final candidates for the post of director-general, controversy continues to swirl around the leading contender, Egyptian culture minister Farouk Hosni.
MIDEAST: Israel Prepares for North Korean Fallout
- Inter Press Service
The tremors of Monday's North Korean nuclear test have been felt all around the world, no more so in a country seemingly not directly affected by whether or not North Korea is a full-fledged nuclear power. In Israel, there is deep concern, an existential fear even - over the implications that Iran will be next in the nuclear line.
MIDEAST: Egyptians Too Hit by Israeli Strikes
- Inter Press Service
Residents along Egypt's border with the Gaza Strip are still awaiting compensation for property damaged by air strikes during Israel's recent onslaught against the Hamas-run enclave.
MIDEAST: Palestinians Scoring Own Goals
- Inter Press Service
While the U.S. appears to be optimistic about Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, inter-Palestinian rivalry, a recalcitrant Israeli government, and an international community with its own agenda could well scuttle a settlement.
MIDEAST: Showdown Looming Over Settlements
- Inter Press Service
A showdown over Israeli settlements in the occupied West bank is looming between Israel and the United States barely a week after the encounter at the White House between U.S. President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. What's becoming increasingly clear is that the May 18 encounter was no friendly 'getting-to-know-you' meeting between a new President and a new Prime Minister of the Middle East's most enduring alliance.
POLITICS-US: Iran Hawks Push Obama on Deadline for Diplomacy
- Inter Press Service
After an uneventful first meeting between U.S. President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that seemed to produce no real breakthroughs, hawks in the U.S. and Israel are seizing upon what they claim is a significant concession by Obama: his setting a 'timetable' for negotiations with Iran.
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