The family and friends of a vibrant Winnipeg teen killed in a terrorist attack 22 years in Israel are bracing for another painful blow this week when her killer is set free. Fern Shawna Rykiss, 17, died in 1989 when a terrorist hijacked the bus on which she was a […]
By REUTERS ARABBEWS Published: Oct 18, 2011 11:41 Updated: Oct 18, 2011 11:41 JERUSALEM: Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, held in captivity by the Hamas since June 2006, was handed over to Israeli officials on Tuesday, Israeli media reported. Israeli television showed Shalit in Egyptian footage shot earlier in the day […]
As it Happens: Prisoners Await Entry to West Bank, Gaza PALESTINE NEWS NETWORK The first phase of the Shalit prisoner swap began on early morning Tuesday, with captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit being transferred to Egypt in return for 450 Palestinian prisoners loaded on buses preparing to enter the West […]
Haaretz Editorial: At a time in which an entire nation is filled with pride over the rescue of one individual, Gilad Shalit, it should also demonstrate empathy for those from beyond our midst. The plight of 28-year-old Somali Abbas Said Omar that was reported yesterday in Haaretz by Dana Weiler-Polak […]
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (Agencies) – Israel on Sunday released a list of 477 Palestinian prisoners to be released as part of the deal to secure Gilad Shalit’s freedom, many of whom were involved in bloody attacks, Agence France-Presse reported. Hundreds of them are serving life terms after being convicted of involvement […]
By BEN HARTMAN Several hundred gather at Tel Aviv Museum plaza where opinions are voiced in “Hyde Park” speakers corner; protest held on Rothschild. Tel Aviv on Saturday joined hundreds of cities across the globe holding “October 15” demonstrations, focused on a message of greater economic equality and opportunity, and […]
By Rami G. Khouri, The Daily Star, Beirut, Lebanon I had the pleasure this week of speaking at the Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies at Tufts University on a panel titled “Continuing Tensions in the Levant.” The panel made me realize two related things. First, all major players in […]
By Robert Patton Can you imagine being born in a refugee camp, living out your entire life in the camp, and finally dying there. Yet this is what a good many Palestinians have experienced. More than sixty years ago, innocent people were uprooted from their homes and forced to live […]
By REUTERS JERUSALEM: Israel plans to build more than 2,600 housing units in a new urban settlement in East Jerusalem, an anti-settlement group said Friday, angering Palestinians who want a halt to all such projects before they return to peace talks. The Peace Now group said the plan was approved […]
Source / Courtesy: The Jerusalem Post By ILAN BARUCH Palestine knows, Israel knows, the US knows, and the entire world knows what the end result of any attempt to end the conflict in the Middle East must be. Like so many others in Israel and Palestine, I, too, sat transfixed in front […]
Third of Four Installments on Libya: Israel and Libya Once again, Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya peels away the veneer of legitimacy and deception enveloping the U.S./NATO genocide currently taking place in Libya. In his first article, Nazemroaya exposed the mechanism by which the world came to “know” of the need for […]
BETHLEHEM (AFP) – More than 100 olive and fig trees on farmland near Bethlehem were set alight on Tuesday in an attack that local witnesses blamed on Jewish settlers.The incident occurred in Nahhalin village, which lies between the southern West Bank town of Bethlehem and the Beitar Illit settlement. Osama […]
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – YAHOO NEWS – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held an urgent cabinet session Tuesday to decide on a prospective deal with Hamas to swap Palestinian prisoners in exchange for a soldier held captive in Gaza for five years, Israeli officials said. A spokesman for Hamas’ armed wing, […]
Hamas says the Palestinians resistance movement has reached an agreement for a prisoner exchange with the Israeli regime.
Religious leaders from all sides of national-religious spectrum strongly condemn Jewish ‘acts of revenge’ against Arab targets. Chief military rabbi urges yeshiva heads to act against phenomenon Chief Military Rabbi Brigadier-General Rafi Peretz has demanded that hesder yeshiva rabbis condemn “price tag” activities and act against them, in light of […]
JERUSALEM, Oct 10, 2011 (IPS) – “On Saturday, we as a nation atoned for our sins. I as a Jew feel ashamed of myself. I’m asking for forgiveness,” declared Ron Hulday, mayor of this mixed city, immediately at the closing of the Day of Atonement. As Jews fasted and prayed […]
Militant Jewish settlers smash tombs and spray stones with graffiti on Yom Kippur and firebomb is thrown at synagogue Dozens of gravestones have been desecrated at Muslim and Christian cemeteries and a firebomb thrown at a synagogue in Jaffa, Israel, on Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement. At least […]
Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, observed this year from sundown on Friday night, October 7th until nightfall on October 8th, and is the Most Awesome Day in the Jewish calendar. Concluding the “Ten Days of Repentance,” also known as the “Days of Awe,” Yom Kippur is a day where […]
By MAAYAN LUBELL | REUTERS ARABNEWS JERUSALEM: In its troubled peace talks with the Palestinians, Israel has demanded that it should be recognized as a Jewish state, but there is deep domestic division on what that means. Yoram Kaniuk, a rambunctious 81-year-old author, was hailed by Israeli secularists this week […]
If Israel’s parliament approves the proposal, 30,000 Bedouins could be removed from their homes in Negev within 60 days Six Arab-Israeli towns in Israel‘s southern Negev region have ground to a halt in protest at government plans to confiscate swathes of land from the Bedouin community. If the proposal passes […]