Aljazeera.com | Gaza's only power plant runs out of fuel Aljazeera.com The Gaza Strip's only functioning power plant has shut down after running out of fuel, leaving two million people in the Hamas-governed Palestinian territory with only six hours of electricity a day. Samir Metir, head of Gaza's electricity provider ... Unprecedented Verbal Attack between Palestinian Authority, Hamas Thousands of Palestinian detainees to observe hunger strike against Israel's maltreatment Gazans run in support of jailed Palestinians in Israel |
RI to lay groundwork for Palestine meet-up Jakarta Post Andy Rachmianto - Courtesy of the Foreign MinistryCareer diplomat Andy Rachmianto has set an ambitious target for himself as he prepares to assume his post as Indonesian Ambassador to Jordan and Palestine. Andy wants to ensure that President Joko ... |
Al-Monitor | See Palestine by donkey Al-Monitor NABLUS, West Bank — Five friends were hanging out in a cafe and came up with an idea that would be profitable and fun at the same time. One of them asked jokingly, “Why don't we organize tours on donkey back?” At first his friends scoffed at him, but ... |
Red and Black | Tensions hit close to home: Palestine-Israel conflict leads to protest at UGA Israeli culture festival Red and Black As IsraelFest unfolded in Tate Student Center Plaza on April 7, members from Students for Justice in Palestine and the Progressive Action Coalition stood outside protesting with signs and a Palestinian flag. Osama Mor, a senior biology major and ... |
JNS.org | Why does America's largest cell carrier call Israel 'Palestine?' JNS.org Rosenblatt received a text message from his cell phone carrier, Verizon, reading, “Welcome to Palestine.” “I did a double take,” said Rosenblatt, a high-tech consultant from Edgemont, N.Y. He had traveled to Israel to see his daughter, who is studying ... |
Aljazeera.com | Palestinians in Europe unify around messages of hope Aljazeera.com A Palestinian flag flies in the middle of the Rotterdam city centre. Palestine, as a name of a state, was removed from all world atlases from the early-1950s onwards, after the creation of Israel in 1948 on historic Palestine. [Mahmoud Abdou/Al Jazeera]. Thousands of Palestinians gather in in Netherlands |
Middle East Monitor | Duchess of York carries message of hope to Palestine Middle East Monitor In an interview with PNN at The British Association for the Study of Religions (BASR), the duchess said that her mission in Palestine is to support Palestinians and the people in the area to be able to build a hospital with the medical crews at BASR ... |
U.S. News & World Report | China Urges Correcting 'Historical Injustice' to Allow Palestinian State U.S. News & World Report BEIJING (Reuters) - Palestinians must be allowed to build an independent state, China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Thursday after meeting Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki, who pushed Beijing to do more in the Middle East peace process. Chinese FM Expresses Support to Creation of Independent Palestinian State China says lack of Palestinian state is 'historical injustice' |
RT | 'Completely immoral': UK-based professor banned from visiting family in Palestine due to activism RT “I was traveling to Palestine, specifically east Jerusalem, with my wife and son. We arrived in Tel Aviv last Friday afternoon. Within an hour, I'd been interrogated. My wife and son were allowed to go through, but I was told that I'd be denied entry ... |
Mondoweiss | Editor is fired then reinstated after he refuses to cut Sarah Schulman's paragraph on Palestine Mondoweiss Here is a hopeful story involving censorship of the Israel/Palestine issue in a leading New York publication. It's got some dark twists and turns; but it comes right in the end. On Monday at the Whitney museum, Sarah Schulman read an essay called “Open ... |