by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies Wednesday October 05, 2011 10:39 Israeli Maariv reported on Wednesday morning that the Israeli Prison Administration (IPA) has started a series of measures to increase pressure on the Palestinian detainees in an attempt to break their open-ended hunger strike. The new measures include depriving the detainees [...]
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Blair’s envoy role at risk as Palestinians reject ‘Israeli bias’
By Catrina Stewart in Jerusalem Independent. Thursday, 29 September 2011 Just days after being declared persona non grata at the Labour Party conference, Tony Blair looks set to receive similar treatment in theMiddle East. The Palestinians have lost trust in the former prime minister as envoy for the Quartet on the Middle East [...]
Bill Clinton: Netanyahu isn’t interested in Mideast peace deal
Former U.S. President says a cynical perspective of Prime Minister’s calls for negotiations ‘means that he’s just not going to give up the West Bank’. Haaretz Mon, September 26, 2011 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is responsible for the inability to reach a peace deal that would end the conflict betweenIsraeland the Palestinians, former [...]
Ibrahim Zaza: The Gaza Boy Newspapers Omitted
by Ramzy Baroud Ramzy Baroud www.ramzybaroud.net is an internationally-syndicated columnist and the editor of PalestineChronicle.com. His latest book is My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza’s Untold Story (Pluto Press, London), available on Amazon.com September 26, 2011 ”Both of Ibrahim’s arms were cut off. He had a hole in his lung. Parts of his [...]
Settlers Put Up Posters Calling For Killing Arabs, Palestinians
by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies Sunday September 25, 2011 21:47 Dozens of armed Israeli settlers put up Israeli flags and posters on main and bypass roads close to Jewish settlements in the southern part of theWest Bank, calling for slaughtering Arabs and Palestinians. Racist posters were also placed along the Jerusalem-Hebron [...]
Obama Sold Israel Bunker-Buster Bombs
Eli Lake While Obama publicly pressuredIsraelto make concessions to the Palestinians over settlements, he secretly soldJerusalemdeep-penetrating bombs it had long sought.EliLakepreviews an exclusive story appearing in Monday’s Newsweek. Daily Beast September 23, 2011 While publicly pressuring Israel to make deeper concessions to the Palestinians, President Obama has secretly authorized significant new aid [...]
Robert Fisk: Dreams of a helpful America keep Palestinians hoping
With two days to go before the UN statehood vote, some are celebrating already. Our writer reports from Ramallah Independent Thursday, 22 September 2011 I’d just been to the old boy’s grave – presumably he’s not turning inside, not this week anyway – and then, less than 50 metres from Manara Square where Ramallah’s [...]
Robert Fisk: Why the Middle East will never be the same again
The Palestinians won’t achieve statehood, but they will consign the ‘peace process’ to history. The Independent Tuesday, 20 September 2011 The Palestinians won’t get a state this week. But they will prove – if they get enough votes in the General Assembly and if Mahmoud Abbas does not succumb to his characteristic grovelling in [...]
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