Palestine meeting at UK parliament canceled after lobby pressure The Electronic Intifada (blog) Labour Friends of Palestine, a group within the UK's main opposition party, has canceled a meeting in parliament featuring veteran Palestinian British journalist Abdel Bari Atwan. The cancelation was made after the group came under pressure from Labour ... |
Middle East Monitor | South African government action on Palestine is overdue Middle East Monitor Jacob Zuma, President of South Africa. For how long will the South African government remain a bystander while Israel keeps colonizing ever more land in Palestine? This is a question asked not only by Palestinian victims of Israel's land grab policies ... |
+972 Magazine | The Month in Photos: Israel/Palestine, January 2016 +972 Magazine Israelis attend a candlelight vigil at the scene of a shooting spree that left three people dead in Tel Aviv a day earlier, January 2, 2016. The shooter, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, was eventually killed in a shootout with police. (Activestills ... Palestine Today 02 02 2016 Stationery firm Typo withdraws globes that included Palestine over Israel Israel demolishes EU-funded Palestinian buildings |
Al-Monitor | The man behind the future of education in Palestine Al-Monitor Saidam, a former minister of telecommunications and leader in the Palestinian National Internet Naming Authority, the e-government initiative launched in 2004, said he also wants to bring automation to the testing and grading process. “This is a new ... |
Telegraph.co.uk | Stationery chain Typo pulls world globe that names Palestine over Israel The Guardian The Australian stationery chain Typo has inadvertently waded into one of the world's thorniest political conflicts, pulling a line of globes that named Palestine but omitted to label Israel. The design choice, which saw Israel and 12 other countries ... Australian company recalls globes that include 'Palestine' but not Israel after backlash Australian chain store 'Typo' labels 'Palestine' over Israel on globe Australian Retailer Halts Sale of Globes Which Omits Israel for Palestine |
Middle East Monitor | Can Palestine exploit the rift between Israel and the West? Middle East Monitor Late last week the French government stated that if the next round of talks between the PLO and Israel fail, it will offer formal recognition to the “State of Palestine”. Unfortunately, as we have seen time and time again, such steps are – in practice ... UN voices concern over stalled Israel-Palestine talks UN chief intensifies criticism of Israeli occupation Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the ghost of UN past |
FRANCE 24 | Netanyahu slams French 'threat' to recognise Palestine if talks fail FRANCE 24 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanhayu has criticised a French ultimatum that it would unilaterally recognise a Palestinian state if peace talks fail, saying such rhetoric might encourage Palestinians to shun any compromise. French Foreign Minister ... France Plans Mideast Peace Effort, and Recognition of Palestine if It Fails UN Fiddles While Palestine Burns Netanyahu frustrated over France's Palestine statehood ultimatum |
Daily Aztec | Lecture series offers new perspectives on Israel-Palestine conflict Daily Aztec A lecture series presented by the Charles Hostler Institute on World Affairs set to begin Feb. 15 will offer new insights into the Israeli-Palestine conflict. The series will cover the history of dissenting Jewish Zionist positions, or those that ... |
The Australian | Cotton On's Typo puts Palestine in for Israel on globe The Australian “Sadly, it is becoming all too routine to find items that expunge Israel off the map or replace it with the yet-to-be-established state of Palestine,” Dr Abramovitch told The Australian. “Such hostile acts of geographical distortion and disinformation ... |
Patheos (blog) | There's no alternative: help Israel and Palestine seek peace, archbishop tells UN Patheos (blog) New York City, N.Y., Feb 2, 2016 / 06:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Peace was the focus of the Holy See's representative in a recent speech to the United Nations, where he renewed calls to support negotiations between Israel and Palestine and between the ... |