Alternative Information Center (AIC) | A Giant Leap Backward for Israel, Palestine and Middle East Peace U.S. News & World Report We are back in no-man's land. At midnight on Tuesday of last week, we passed the deadline set by Secretary of State John Kerry for the nine months of make-or-break negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Kerry's was a valiant effort ... Palestine negotiator: Door to talks with Israel open For one democratic state in historical Palestine Nina Tannenwald: It's time to internationalize the Israel-Palestine issue |
The Guardian | After Failed Peace Talks, Pushing to Label Israel as Occupier of Palestine New York Times JERUSALEM — More than a year after Palestine was upgraded to become a nonmember observer state of the United Nations, the attributes of statehood exist mainly on official Palestinian letterhead. Now, with the collapse of the American-brokered Middle ... Remembering the Nakba: Israeli group puts 1948 Palestine back on the map Israel will not grant Palestine minimum demands for peace, says American official Palestinian Intent to Accede to 15 Treaties |
New Statesman | Israel-Palestine: this is the anti-peace process New Statesman The Israeli government was outraged at the announcement on 23 April of the deal between the Palestinian rival organisations Fatah and Hamas. It formally withdrew from peace negotiations and issued an array of sanctions. Yet, despite its professed anger ... Palestine unity deal forced on Hamas: analysts Hamas eases ban on Palestinian newspapers in unity gesture Palestine reconciliation: Hamas allows West Bank newspaper Al-Quds into Gaza ... |
Left Foot Forward | Ugly truths and Liberal Democrat Friends of Palestine Left Foot Forward Ugly truthj Last week's Jewish Chronicle exposed the Liberal Democrat Friends of Palestine group for having repeatedly linked via Facebook to articles on a notorious American antisemitic hate website, The Ugly Truth. Its strap-line “Zionism, Jewish ... |
The Electronic Intifada (blog) | Palestine can be won in a street fight Aljazeera.com Palestine has always been the underdog, a country slowly being wiped off the map, a society daily and methodically being dismantled by Israel. As a principally unarmed and oppressed indigenous population, Palestinians are perceived as powerless against ... Pink Floyd members strike nerve with call on Rolling Stones to boycott Israel |
RT (blog) | Palestine formally joins 5 UN human rights treaties RT (blog) Palestine has signed up to five global treaties, which ban torture and racial discrimination, while protecting the rights of women, children and the disabled, the UN has stated. On May 7, Palestine will also sign an agreement that will protect children ... Palestine adopts UN human rights treaties Palestine joins five UN treaties following peace talks failure Palestine adopts significant human rights treaties |
Binghamton University Pipe Dream | Professors explain Israeli-Palestinian history and consequences Binghamton University Pipe Dream The Binghamton University Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) held a discussion on Monday to outline the history and consequences of the Palestinian refugee situation. Two professors gave presentations, after which audience members wrote questions ... |
The Atlantic | Palestine-Israel: Peace talks, what peace talks? Aljazeera.com With this unqualified US backing, Israel has consistently put the onus on the Palestinians for the success of any peace talks while it intransigently pursued an expansionist policy that expropriated more Palestinian land and continued to build illegal ... A Palestinian Student Defends Her Visit to Auschwitz Palestinian leader Abbas calls Holocaust most heinous crime of modern era Rand Paul to propose halting aid to Palestine |
Ahram Online | New Release: Palestine's plight - political and military secrets Ahram Online Mehnat Felastine w Asrarha Al-Askary (Palestine's Plight: Political and Military Secrets), by Salih Saib Al-Jabbouri, Doha: ACRPS, 2014. 654pp. The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies (ACRPS) has published a new book entitled, Mehnat Felastine ... |
STRUMMING MUSIC: Charlemagne Palestine Brooklyn Rail On the evening of March 7, Charlemagne Palestine approached the massive Aeolian-Skinner organ at Plymouth Church in Brooklyn Heights with dogged determination and a childlike sense of wonder. A soft drone was reverberating throughout the airy room ... |