The Nation | Palestine's state status enables security San Francisco Chronicle Palestine's new non-member state status within the United Nations is far more than symbolic. As a recognized state, Palestine can sign treaties enabling it to protect its airspace, natural gas fields off the Gaza coast and electromagnetic airwaves. If ... The Explainer: Why is the US alone on Palestine? Palestinian Rams Israeli Jeep, Attacks Agents With Ax The Palestinian paradox |
The Guardian | Palestinian president returns home triumphantly after achieving acceptance ... Washington Post RAMALLAH, West Bank — The Palestinian president returned triumphantly to the West Bank on Sunday, receiving a boisterous welcome from thousands of cheering supporters at a rally celebrating his people's new acceptance to the United Nations. Israel seizes $120m in Palestinian tax revenue over UN statehood vote Israel to Withhold Tax Transfers to Palestinians End the stale rhetoric and the Israeli-Palestinian stalemate |
The Guardian | UN vote for Palestine marks diplomatic isolation of the US Jakarta Post When Barack Obama was elected for his first term as US president, there were high hopes in the Middle East and in the Muslim world that the US had finally installed a president who would dare to undertake new and brave foreign policy initiatives ... Netanyahu firm on Jewish settlement plan despite international backlash and ... |
rabble.ca | A Peace treaty between Israel and Palestine OpEdNews Phyllis Bennis in the Real News: Israel assassinated prime Gaza peace agreement negotiator / military leader, Ahmed al-Jabari, through a drone strike on Nov. 14 , 2012, repeating its 2008-09 tactic. (of resorting to violence as a dilatory move, when ... Noam Chomsky: On the UN Palestine vote and recent violence in Gaza Palestine: Israeli forces arrest 14 fishermen, confiscate 3 fishing boats Palestine's new status: History rerun or new strategy |
Bikya Masr | Malaysia pledges RM3mil more for Palestinian refugees The Star Online Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said this was part of the country's continued assistance to Palestine and its people, following over 30 years of annual contributions to the UNRWA and RM1mil in donations to the Gaza Emergency Fund. “We all ... Malaysia gives RM3m to UN for Palestinian refugees Mahmoud Abbas invites Najib to visit Palestine Malaysia gives another $1 million for Palestinian refugees |
Balancing Palestine, Bangsamoro issues Philippine Star NEW YORK — The Philippines was walking a diplomatic tightrope when it voted in the United Nations General Assembly last Thursday for granting Palestine the status of a non-member state observer. President Noynoy Aquino, the country's sole spokesman ... |
Daily Beast | The Conversation: Israel and Palestine Daily Beast From the Gaza war and the upgrading of Palestine at the U.N. to Israel's announcement that it will likely build new settlements, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is spiraling out of control. We as coauthors disagree on the Palestinian U.N. bid, as on ... |
Palestine Refuses to Disappear Middle East Online The UN voted to grant Palestine the upgraded status of non-member state is a success for Mahmoud Abbas. But the PA president faces opposition from the United States, Israel and some countries in Europe -- and scepticism from the Palestinians themselves ... |
The Independent | Both Arab and Jew lived in the original Palestine. Why, Moshe Dayan asks, can ... The Independent Her accent in English is poised, slightly upper crust and she obviously admires the country which ruled mandate Palestine until 1948. “I am an Anglophile,” she says proudly, a woman born in Ottoman Palestine in 1917, moving to London with her parents. |
Dysfunctional love stories of Palestine The Daily Star Since the story of Palestinian occupation, exile and resistance has long since become a (arguably the) pan-Arab tale of woe, par excellence, it's no surprise to find estranged couples in the work of Palestinian and non-Palestinian filmmakers alike. |