The Palestine City Council spent a good portion of its meeting this week questioning Mayor Becky Dunn about the city’s bills. Last month, the council agreed to review the bills on the second Monday of each month. This was the first month for the council to reviewed the bills that way.
With some sort of "meeting" or "conference" to kick start the peace process now being touted by the Bush administration, there is at least the appearance of an understanding in Washington of the importance for the region and the world of solving the "Palestinian problem."
EAST PALESTINE — Board of Education members weren’t happy Wednesday that they had to be informed about a nursing home’s upcoming request for a tax abatement through a newspaper story.
A decent two-state solution to the 'Palestinian problem' has become impossible.
Following World War II, the British withdrew from their mandate of Palestine, and the UN partitioned the area into Arab and Jewish states, an arrangement rejected by the Arabs. Subsequently, the Israelis defeated the Arabs in a series of wars without ending the deep tensions between the two sides.
In their uphill struggle for a just, comprehensive, and lasting peace, President Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) are facing two major problems. The first is Israel’s continuing occupation of Palestinian territories.
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) yesterday warned warring factions in Palestine to stop using the media and pressure on journalists in their political struggle, saying that both Hamas and Fatah factions in Palestine are putting unacceptable pressure on journalists following a series of recent incidents in which journalists have been harassed and subject to intimidation.
TISKILWA — Ali Imtairah likes small-town life.In October, Imtairah will celebrate 25 years of living in Tiskilwa and as owner of the town’s Valley Market grocery store. He grew up in Palestine and moved to Chicago in 1973, before moving to Tiskilwa in 1982.
HANOVERTON — The East Palestine girls may want to go back to United’s cross country course. The Bulldogs featured three of the top six runners to capture the girls team title Tuesday in the first Suburban League meet hosted by United.
Jonathan Demme, whose latest documentary Man of Plains deals with the life of former US president Jimmy Carter, 83, vis-à-vis the publication in November 2006 of his best seller Palestine: Peace not Apartheid , is the director of Silence of the Lambs (1991), Philadelphia (1993), The Agronomist (2003) and The Manchurian Candidate (2004), and the producer of Mandela (1996).