The Guardian | Israel scraps the release of Palestine prisoners as talks are 'reviewed' The Guardian The latest moves come as Palestinian officials have reportedly threatened to seek membership of the International Criminal Court in addition to the other bodies, amid mounting recriminations on both sides. The cancellation came a day after an ... Israel-Palestine peace talks at 'critical' stage: Kerry As negotiations over the big issues stall, both sides bid for minor advantages The Monkey Wrench in Israel-Palestine Talks |
Antiwar.com (blog) | US looking for way forward in faltering Mideast peace talks Reuters A surprise decision by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday to sign more than a dozen international conventions that could give Palestinians greater leverage against Israel left the United States searching for a way to keep the talks going ... Meltdown in Palestine John Kerry's Unfair Interim Deal For Israel-Palestine Abbas signs Palestine request to join 15 int'l bodies |
The Nation. (blog) | Q&A with Ryan Branagan of Northeastern's Students for Justice in Palestine The Nation. (blog) Northeastern University in Boston recently sparked controversy when it suspended a pro-Palestinian student group, Students for Justice in Palestine. A Northeastern spokeswoman told the Boston Globe that the group was suspended because it flouted ... 'A Painful Price': The escalating war on Palestine solidarity at U of Michigan ... Winkler '14: Israel/Palestine: The fine line Writer Peter Beinart sounds off on Israel-Palestine conflict |
Israel Calls Off Prisoner Release as Kerry Seeks to Keep Talks Alive New York Times ALGIERS — Israel has called off plans to release a fourth group of Palestinian prisoners, people involved in the threatened peace talks said Thursday, an indication of the severity of the impasse between the two sides despite the pressure from ... |
Kerry says Israel and Palestine must 'lead' if talks are to succeed Globalnews.ca WATCH ABOVE: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told Israeli and Palestinian leaders that they must “lead” and must do so now, as foundering peace talks he has tried to salvage near collapse. ALGIERS, Algeria – Frustrated by a virtually moribund ... |
Washington Post | Israelis, Palestinians begin to assign blame for possible collapse of peace talks Washington Post The Palestinians made formal the steps that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas announced Tuesday, delivering signed documents that made the Palestinians a party to 15 U.N. treaties. But Palestinian leaders also assured the United States that ... |
Palestine, Egypt and Syria: New Lows for Obama's Failed Middle East Policy Center for Research on Globalization The predictable break down of peace talks between the Israelis and Palestinians occurred when the Palestinian Authority backed out of a “peace process” they had zero to gain from. Yet another failure after a string of Middle East fiascoes: Obama's ... |
Photos give a rare look into the Nazis of Mandatory Palestine Haaretz The solution the Germans found was to transport their citizens in a convoy of buses to the port in Haifa, where they boarded an American ship, the Milwaukee, sailed out of the territorial waters of Mandatory Palestine and voted there. Voting in favor ... |
Palestine to Join 15 UN Bodies and Treaties. Will Abbas Follow-Up? Sabbah Report On April 1, Abbas signed documents to do so. He'll submit them to UN authorities. It's high time he did so. He should have years ago. It's Palestine's legal right. It's able to join all UN bodies and treaties. It can ratify the Rome Statute of the ... |
The Electronic Intifada (blog) | Tutu condemns US efforts to curb free speech on Palestine The Electronic Intifada (blog) I am writing today to express grave concern about a wave of legislative measures in the United States aimed at punishing and intimidating those who speak their conscience and challenge the human rights violations endured by the Palestinian people. Desmond Tutu: Maryland legislature's anti-boycott effort designed to 'punish ... |