Haaretz | Palestinian status bid jeopardizes peace process: US Reuters UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A Palestinian bid to upgrade its U.N. status to a sovereign country would jeopardize the peace process with Israel and make it difficult to get the two sides to return to talks on a two-state solution, the United States said ... Israel, Palestinian issue The Lessons of Novembers Past In UN Middle East Debate, Feltman on Palestine Status, Syria on Mali |
Haaretz (blog) | World powers will soon support our cause, says top Palestinian official Haaretz (blog) PLO executive committee member Hanan Ashrawi says growing pro-Palestinian public opinion will soon force European governments to fend off 'mean' U.S. pressure and back the Palestinians' UN statehood bid. By Amira Hass | Oct.15, 2012 | 4:11 AM | 1 ... Israel urged to protect West Bank olive trees after settler attacks Ashrawi Thanks Brazil For Supporting Palestinian Statehood Bid Israel Encourages Settler Violence |
Al-Bawaba | Palestine Job Crisis: Israel Work Permit Sought By Thousands Huffington Post BEIT EL, West Bank -- For Palestinians, the Israeli military coordination office on the outskirts of Jerusalem is a symbol of Israel's decades-long control over their lives. Now it has also become an unlikely source of hope for employment. In response ... Israel vs. No. 2 Pencils A malignancy called Jewish settlers Palestine pays for Israel's 'gesture of good will' |
Palestinian prisoner goes on hunger strike gulfnews.com Samer had staged a 125-day hunger strike before Israeli authorities requested his family find a country to host him to secure his release. After some months, the Palestinian Minister of Detainees' Affair Eisa Qaraqei announced that Egypt had agreed to ... |
All-Female Ticket Aims to Be Heard, if Not Seen New York Times HEBRON, West Bank — The faces of five men in business suits and one woman in a white head scarf beam under the slogan “Modern Hebron” on campaign banners along the streets of this famously conservative city ahead of local elections scheduled for ... |
Palestine Chronicle | How Legalese Can Help Free Palestine Palestine Chronicle That was the stated purpose for Bertrand Russell's original 1966 International War Crimes Tribunal on the Vietnam War, just as it was for last weekend's New York session of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine. Though some activists see such public ... Breaking the silence on Israel |
Al-Arabiya | A Palestinian state in Sinai? Al-Arabiya Rumour has it, and some articles in Egyptian newspapers have stated that the increasing crossings of Palestinians to the Egyptian Sinai through the illegal tunnels between Egypt and Gaza have been taking place in accordance with a plan by the Islamist ... Palestine: Israel kills three in Gaza Israel targets militants in Gaza Israeli strike kills leader of al-Qaida-inspired group in harshest blow ... |
RH Reality Check (blog) | Women and Electoral Politics in Palestine: A Revolution in the Making? RH Reality Check (blog) “Women of the Town” is a list of female candidates running in the Palestinian municipal elections on the 20 of October. Lists include five candidates, either from a loose group or a pre-existing political party, vying for nine places on a municipal ... |
Al-Jazeerah.info | Jordanian Obeidat Tribe Disowns Diplomat for Accepting Ambassador Job in ... Al-Jazeerah.info The Jordanian tribe of al-Obeidat organizes this weekend a mass festival to support Palestinian people and al-Aqsa Mosque, with the participation of hundreds of political and national figures, in the largest village of the tribe in the north of the ... |
The Levy Report: A vital beginning Jerusalem Post Much more specific justification comes from the original League of Nations Mandate for Palestine, which called for “close settlement by Jews on the land, including State lands” of the Mandate, and article 80 of the United Nations charter, which ... |