In response, Israel sealed Gaza's borders, making life even more unbearable in a place wracked by violence, poverty, and despair. It is important that we recognise the source of America's failure, because it keeps recurring, making peace between Israel and Palestine more difficult.
Palestine’s youth baseball and softball programs will end the summer run Friday night. The T-Ball league teams will play tonight and Friday night to conclude their seasons.
Palestine, Lebanon set to implement Bahrain-Arab model
Local churches in Palestine/Israel are looking to the whole fellowship of the World Council of Churches (WCC) to play a stronger role in supporting local churches struggles for a just peace there. This is the main finding of a delegation led by the Councils general secretary Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia that visited Palestine/Israel from 21 to 26 June. A new advocacy forum launched prior to the ...
More than 320 people attended Army Pfc. Jacob Tracy’s funeral Wednesday afternoon in the Palestine Grade School. Tracy, 20, died June 18 in Balad, Iraq, from injuries suffered when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle June 17 in Baghdad, a Department of Defense news release reported.
-- One of the paradoxes of the internal conflict in Palestine is that Palestinians are fighting each other without any regard to the fact that the Israeli occupation continues unabated. There are plenty of reasons to explain why the occupation has persisted for decades.
After 25 years in British politics, 13 years at the head of the Labor Party and 10 years as the head of government, Tony Blair bowed out as prime minister and Member of Parliament Wednesday and stepped into his new post as special envoy to the Middle East.
We could see it coming when, upon a recent visit to Palestine, a young Palestinian child asked me if I was with Fatah or with Hamas, the two rival and politically irreconcilable groups in the Palestinian territories.
It is astonishing that despite all the attention the world has been paying for years to the Palestinian problem it remains unresolved and, in fact, seems to be getting more complicated as time passes. The latest turn has come with Hamas apparently overrunning Fatah for control of the Gaza strip.
RAMALLAH, June 27 (Itar-Tass) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held talks with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday on ways to overcome the crisis in Palestine.