The Guardian | Palestinian Rivals Announce Unity Pact, Drawing US and Israeli Rebuke New York Times JERUSALEM — The faltering Middle East peace process was thrown into further jeopardy on Wednesday, with Israel and the United States harshly condemning a new deal announced by feuding Palestinian factions, including the militant group Hamas, ... Israel will have to run Palestine if peace talks fail, Mahmoud Abbas warns Palestine warns Israel against talks failure After Bitter Split, Palestinian Factions Pledge To Reconcile |
Palestinian Factions Announce Deal on Unity Government New York Times The two groups — the Palestine Liberation Organization, which runs the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, and Hamas, the militant Islamist group that controls the Gaza Strip — have reached similar accords before that were never carried out. But ... |
BBC News | Why St George is a Palestinian hero BBC News As England celebrates the day of its patron saint, many Palestinians are gearing up for their own forthcoming celebrations of the figure they also regard as a hero. A familiar flag flaps in the wind above a Palestinian church in the West Bank village ... St. George's Day-–Five Things You Didn't Know About the Dragon-Slaying ... Saint George's Day: Google creates Doodle to celebrate feast day of England's ... |
The Guardian | Long shadow over Palestine killing The Guardian In the ever-controversial history of Palestine, a special place is reserved for Avraham Stern. The leader of the eponymous "gang" – its Hebrew name meant "Fighters for the Freedom of Israel" – was shot and killed in February 1942 after masterminding a ... Explaining the Jewish Hold Over Palestine, in America Lieberman: Umm al-Fahm will be part of Palestine, not Israel Israel to call Christian Arabs for military service |
Aljazeera.com | Palestine as an exclusively Jewish issue in the US Aljazeera.com But confining the US debate on Palestine and the Arab world to a mere intra-Zionist debate is counterproductive. It's narrowly defining and largely dictating the larger debate over US policy towards the Arab-Israeli conflict. It renders the ... Palestinian Christians 'bitter and left out' of Easter celebrations Palestinian official: US proposed no new ideas to salvage peace talks in last ... Palestinian Teaches Tolerance via Holocaust |
Palestinian factions to form unity government Aljazeera.com A meeting of Palestinian leaders in Gaza has reached a milestone reconciliation pact that will see rival Palestinian groups form a national consensus government in five weeks - after seven years of operating under separate administrations. Under the ... |
Mondoweiss | 'There is no 'Palestine Exception' to free speech rights': Northeastern ... Mondoweiss Northeastern University Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) has announced that the University is backing off of its decision to suspend the student organization until January 2015. “This is a victory for freedom of expression on campus,” said SJP ... |
President Abbas threatens to disband Palestinian Authority if Israeli talks fail RT Israel will be left to govern a population of over 2.5 million in the Palestinian territories, taking charge of security issues, healthcare and the economy of the area, if talks fail, Abbas has threatened. The warning comes after reports over the ... |
Middle East Monitor (blog) | Latin American support for Palestine thwarts Zionist ambitions to dominate the ... Middle East Monitor (blog) On the opposite end of the spectrum, Latin American countries such as Cuba, Ecuador, Venezuela and Bolivia have consistently imparted support for Palestine. The integrity and respect for resistance was strongly evidenced during the United Nations ... |
SBS | Palestinian deal 'no threat' to peace talks with Israel SBS The Australia Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN) says a new reconciliation agreement, between rival Palestinian leaders from the West Bank and Gaza Strip, does not yet signal the collapse of peace talks with Israel. By. AFP with SBS. Source. AFP. Foreign Minister Hopes Negotiations Continue Liberal and Progressive Jews Welcome Hamas/PA Reconciliation As peace deadline nears, Abbas says he has options |