Ynetnews: A Saudi-backed center to promote interfaith dialogue worldwide began work in Vienna on Monday by bringing hundreds of religious activists together to discuss how to promote understanding among different beliefs. Named after Saudi King Abdullah, the center is a welcome boost for bridge-building between faiths in an era of […]
Haaretz: Switzerland, Denmark, Austria, and Spain will join France in backing Palestinian upgrade at UN; Britain seeking assurances from Palestinians; Germany will oppose move. More European states joined France on Wednesday in backing a Palestinian bid for limited statehood but Britain held back, saying it wanted an assurance that the […]
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories: The Palestinians are facing “intensive pressure” not to sue Israel for war crimes at the International Criminal Court if they win upgraded UN status, an official said on Wednesday. Hanan Ashrawi, a senior member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation, said that various foreign governments, led by Britain, […]
Daily Times: Razi Azmi. Netanyahu went to war against Hamas thinking he would destroy this ‘terrorist’ organisation once and for all and earn the gratitude of the Jewish people. He has achieved the opposite Now, the second Gaza war is over. Who won? Who lost? The biggest losers, no doubt, […]
The Jakarta Globe: Every time the Israeli-Palestinian conflict re-emerges on the stage of global politics, Muslim groups in predominantly Muslim-populated countries like Indonesia, but also in the West, the United […]
Reporting by John Irish; Editing by Angus MacSwan: Source: Yahoo News PARIS (Reuters) – France said on Tuesday it would vote in favour of Palestinian non-member status at the United […]
Source: Asia Times: The Obama administration’s unconscionable decision to block a ceasefire effort by the UN Security Council, before joining Egypt to broker last week’s truce, prolonged the conflict. At the UN, it is doubtful many people will take Ambassador Susan Rice seriously again when she complains about Russia and […]
Last Stop, Tel Aviv is the story of the 60,000 asylum seekers living in Israel. Escaping dictatorships and indefinite military conscription, Africans flee their homelands in the hope of a […]
The Iron Dome kept missiles at bay, but another ‘dome’ shields the people from reality by Robert Fisk, The Independent, UK Israelis are congratulating themselves on the success of their Iron Dome missile shield. But across Israel these past years has fallen a different kind of iron dome, one that […]
The people of Huj – now almost forgotten – had helped the Jewish Haganah army escape the British. The thanks they got was to be sent into Gaza as refugees by Robert Fisk, The Independent, UK I think I found the village of Huj this weekend – but the road […]
Op-Ed: JTA: By Marc Schneier and Shamsi Ali The recent conflict in Gaza and Israel casts a vivid spotlight on the need to strengthen relations between Jews and Muslims in […]
Op-Ed: The Arutz Sheva: By Ece Koc, Turkish TV Everyone has an opinion about the conflict between Israel and Palestinian Arabs. Some say that Palestinian Arabs started it with their […]
By Matt Hill of The Telegraph Only political stubbornness, not popular support or irreconcilable differences, prevents the two-state solution from working, argues Matt Hill. The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas […]
Source: TOI JERUSALEM: Israel’s defence minister Ehud Barakon Monday announced he was quitting political life after a decades-long career that also saw him serve as prime minister. Barak, 70, made the surprise announcement at a press conference in Tel Aviv, adding that he would retire from politics after a new […]
Common Ground News Service: by Mike Prashker Ramle – Two weeks ago – before the current explosion of violence – I travelled down to Beersheba, the largest town in Southern […]
Reuters | Nov 24, 2012 | JORDAN TIMES GAZA — Israel eased restrictions on Gaza fishermen on Saturday, further implementing a three-day-old truce brokered by Egypt after a week of […]
NY Times: WASHINGTON — The conflict that ended, for now, in a cease-fire between Hamas and Israel seemed like the latest episode in a periodic showdown. But there was a second, strategic agenda unfolding, […]
The food and farming sector in Gaza has been severely maimed, worsening the condition of agricultural sector. Since its creation in 1948, Israel has used food and nutrition as a […]
AFP | Nov 22, 2012 | JORDAN TIMES RAMALLAH — Yasser Arafat’s widow said on Thursday that next week’s exhumation of the late Palestinian leader was “very painful” but also necessary because of suspicions Israel poisoned him. “It is very painful. It is a shock, and it is not easy […]
Source; Khabar online: Politics – We have seen some of this before but there are new Q & A s added, so you may wish to read them again: Question: […]