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Abbas vows to push ahead with UN membership bid - Jerusalem Post Sun, 13 Nov 2011 00:05:15 GMT

The Guardian

Abbas vows to push ahead with UN membership bid Jerusalem Post That would fall short of full membership but would implicitly recognize Palestine as a state and would likely win a majority in the 193-nation assembly. German Ambassador Peter Wittig urged the Palestinians to reconsider what to do. ... UN committee says divided on Palestinian bidReuters Fake Progress vs Real Progress in PalestineThe Atlantic UN vote on Palestinian state put off amid lack of supportThe Guardian Ha'aretz -Xinhua all 487 news articles »

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Palestinian hip-hop inspires different kind of political party - The Boston Globe Sat, 12 Nov 2011 23:41:20 GMT

The Boston Globe

Palestinian hip-hop inspires different kind of political party The Boston Globe She is Israeli, he is Palestinian; she is going up, he is going down. But as it turns out, no one is going anywhere. The elevator is stuck. While they wait for something to happen, they talk. That's the premise of a new song in English that the ...

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Q+A - Palestinian U.N. bid appears headed for failure - Reuters Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:17:28 GMT

AFP

Q+A - Palestinian U.N. bid appears headed for failure Reuters UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The Palestinian application for membership in the United Nations appears headed for rejection after the Palestinians failed to muster sufficient support in the UN Security Council. ... Palestine at the UN: What Will and What Will Not HappenHuffington Post Palestinian campaign to join UN faces setbackFinancial Times Palestinian doubts over UN membership bidAFP Sydney Morning Herald all 973 news articles »

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Dot Connection: From Palestinian Politics to Tsunami Warnings - New York Times (blog) Fri, 11 Nov 2011 20:28:46 GMT

euronews

Dot Connection: From Palestinian Politics to Tsunami Warnings New York Times (blog) You may have followed developments as the United States pulled its funding for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, known as Unesco, after the organization voted to make Palestine its 195th full ... Report: U.N. Agency Suspends Programs After U.S. Halts Funding Over ...Fox News UNESCO chief: withdrawal of US funding is 'unfortunate development'Deutsche Welle Palestine vote leads to US cutting UNESCO moneyeuronews CNN -Monsters and Critics.com -Eurasia Review all 230 news articles »

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Raising the Issue of Iran to Cover Up the Issue of Syria - Huffington Post (blog) Sat, 12 Nov 2011 22:43:19 GMT

Telegraph.co.uk

Raising the Issue of Iran to Cover Up the Issue of Syria Huffington Post (blog) Furthermore, regarding the membership of Palestine at the United Nations, the Obama Administration enlisted all its efforts to influence Security Council member-states in order to deprive the resolution on full membership of the nine votes it requires, ... Poll: American voters' support for Israel risingJerusalem Post Netanyahu Is Not the ProblemNew Republic At Debate, the World That's Waiting for GOP CandidatesNational Journal American Thinker -Post Chronicle all 100 news articles »

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This Week in Palestine week 45 2011 - International Middle East Media Center Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:42:01 GMT

gulfnews.com

This Week in Palestine week 45 2011 International Middle East Media Center Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, from November 5th to the 11th 2011. while the Quartet announced this week that will hold separate talks with Palestinian and Israeli leaders, ... Israel/Palestine Analysis: Abbas needs token from UN on statehood to save faceNational Post Destroying Palestinian solar plantgulfnews.com Is there no Arab Spring in Palestine?The Daily Star Frontier Post -TIME (blog) -Tehran Times all 478 news articles »

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US, Israel attack humanitarian aid - Workers World Sat, 12 Nov 2011 16:43:56 GMT

ABC News

US, Israel attack humanitarian aid Workers World Enraged because UNESCO, a United Nations agency, had accepted Palestine as a full member of the organization, the US abruptly cut off its share of funding, over $60 million, threatening the ability of this entirely peaceful agency to carry out its ... Israelis must stop attacking PalestiniansRed and Black Israel speeds up airliner anti-missile systemsUPI.com Gorenberg Says One-State Solution Would Produce Another Lebanon – OpEdEurasia Review all 150 news articles »

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With Mideast Talks Stuck, Obama Adviser Leaving - NPR Fri, 11 Nov 2011 04:47:11 GMT

The Daily Star

With Mideast Talks Stuck, Obama Adviser Leaving NPR But the push for a UN Security Council vote on recognition of an independent Palestine and continued Israeli settlement construction in east Jerusalem and the West Bank have further soured the environment for new talks. State Department spokesman Mark ... Obama's Mid-East adviser set to resignPress TV US top envoy leaving, and so should his politics+972 Magazine - Independent commentary from Israel and the Palestinian territories all 264 news articles »

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'Peace isn't about justice, it's about stability' - Tehelka Fri, 11 Nov 2011 20:27:50 GMT

Tehelka

'Peace isn't about justice, it's about stability' Tehelka The paradigm that has driven the Israel-Palestine peace process for 20 years is no longer usable. The Israeli maximum does not meet the Palestinian minimum. Assuming the Palestinians know what their minimum is. Without this being any critique of the ... and more »

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Arabs squeezed as Jerusalem expands - The Independent Sun, 13 Nov 2011 00:02:14 GMT

Palestine Chronicle

Arabs squeezed as Jerusalem expands The Independent In negotiations with Ehud Olmert – easily the closest the two sides have come to an agreement in a decade – the Palestinians insisted on Har Homa being in Palestine. Thanks to painstaking research on plans in the pipeline by the Israeli NGO Terrestrial ... Michael Jansen: The partition planGulf Today Conrad Black: Middle East truth-telling, from an unlikely sourceNational Post (blog) What's next in Mideast peace effortsCanadian National Newspaper Palestine Chronicle -Middle East North Africa Financial Network -MWC News all 18 news articles »