Does Palestine UN vote threaten Swiss neutrality?
by Jean-Michel Berthoud, swissinfo.ch Switzerland has announced that it will support a call to upgrade the status of Palestine at the United Nations when the issue comes to the vote […]
France to back Palestinian U.N. status
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 […]
The latest war with Hamas over Gaza proves Benjamin Netanyahu is leading Israel into isolation
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 suffering of Sderot: how its true inhabitants were wiped from Israel’s maps and memories
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 […]
Peace is a Special Language We All Must Learn to Speak
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 […]
Israel said to ease restrictions on Gaza fishing and farming
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 […]
Hezbollah-Hamas ties at stalemate, official says
Story Summary; Syria’s crisis has caused a stalemate in the relation between Hezbollah and Hamas, Osama Hamdan, a Hamas official in Lebanon told Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency Saturday. However, Hamas […]
Gaza: Behind the pillars of cloud
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 […]
Arafat exhumation ‘painful but necessary’ – widow
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 […]
Cease-fire at last, truce terms vague
Story Summary An Egyptian-brokered truce between Israel and Hamas Wednesday ended eight days of fierce fighting in Gaza, largely halting attacks that have killed 162 Palestinians and five Israelis and […]
The open wound
Daily Times: D Asghar. Our problem is that most of us Muslims see the issue of the Palestine-Israel conflict as a purely religious issue. We often ignore that this is a territorial conflict When I came to the US, and went for the Friday prayers, I use to cringe at […]
Rocket Fire Halts in Gaza Cease-Fire
Source: ABC News / Yahoo News By COLLEEN CURRY The rockets and missiles fell silent over Gaza for the first time in eight days today, but gunfire erupted in the crowded streets […]
Gaza ceasefire hangs in the balance
by Ruth Pollard Middle East Correspondent The Sydney Morning Herald AS MIDDLE East leaders work with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to broker a ceasefire agreement acceptable to both Israel and Hamas, United Nations ambassadors in New York said the Security Council would hold an open debate on the […]
Another Day in Paradise
By Yusuf Walker Pardon me if I have not been myself recently, but I have been racked with inner grief at the plight of the oh so poor Israel. Every day they are terrorized by the glorified fireworks being fired at them from Palestine. To have to bear the noise […]
Gaza: Palestinians executed for ‘collaborating’ with Israel
The Telegraph: Phoebe Greenwood in Gaza Six Palestinian men accused of spying for Israel were executed in a public intersection in Gaza City on Tuesday evening. Witnesses report that a […]
UNRWA condemns Israeli “creation” of footage, tweets falsely claiming Gaza schools used to launch rockets
UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestine refugees, has hit back at Israeli allegations, made through social media, that it allows schools it runs in the Gaza Strip to be used […]
Gaza invasion: it’s been done before, but this is different
By Douglas Hamilton DAILY STAR LEBANON Story Summary Big armoured bulldozers with blades tall enough to plough through houses and carve a path for tanks and infantry were lined up on Israel’s border with Gaza on Monday, ready to invade if given the order. Israel says it is prepared to […]
World pressure for Gaza truce intensifies (while Palestinian casualties surpass the 100 mark)
By Nidal al-Mughrabi, Maayan Lubell DAILY STAR LEBANON GAZA/JERUSALEM: The U.N. chief called for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton headed to the region with a message that escalation of the week-long conflict was in nobody’s interest. Nevertheless, Palestinian rocket […]
Gaza family wiped out by Israeli bomb
The four youngest members of the El Dallo family were the first to arrive at the Shifa hospital morgue. Sara, 7, Jamal, 6, Yusef, 4, and Ibrahim,2, children of rumoured […]
Gaza: Flawed recourse
Story Summary Source: Daily Star, Lebanon The race is now on between a new war in the Gaza Strip, and a flurry of efforts by countries and organizations to contain the situation. Compared to the last Israeli military offensive four years ago, this time around holds more unknowns; Jerusalem and […]