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International Business Times
| 4 months ago
Instagram/ansred) Instagram user ansred's photo of a Fatah rally in Gaza. Hamas, the more militant and Islamist of the two parties, won a majority in the Palestinian parliament in 2006, prompting a split that sometimes erupted into violent conflict,...
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Zee News
| 4 months ago
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will visit Egypt next Wednesday to discuss resuming talks with Islamic Hamas movement for achieving internal reconciliation and ending division between the Gaza Strip and West Bank, Palestinian officials said...
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United Press International
| 4 months ago
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians joined a rare rally staged by President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah group in Gaza on Friday, as tensions ease with rival Hamas Islamists ruling the enclave since 2007. West Bank, Jan. 5 (UPI) -- Palestinian Authority...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 4 months ago
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians poured on to the streets of Gaza on Friday in a display of popular support for the Fatah faction of the Palestinian leadership as resentment rises against the Islamist Hamas movement. Central Gaza city was...
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The Daily Star
| 4 months ago
The Daily Star In January, Israeli voters will go to the polls for elections that promise to hand Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a renewed mandate. Few prospects are more loathsome to the Israeli left, to the administration in the U.S. of...
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International Middle East Media Center
| 4 months ago
West Bank Arrests Aims At Preventing 3rd Intifada The Israeli army stated Friday that it is conducting extensive arrests targeting Palestinian youths in the occupied West Bank in order to prevent a third Intifada in the territories, the Palestine...
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The New York Times
| 4 months ago
Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking news and headlines. Mohammed Salem/Reuters Palestinians waved a Palestinian flag, left, and a Fatah flag, right, during a rally marking the 48th anniversary of the founding of the Fatah movement, in...
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Arab News
| 4 months ago
Uri Avnery Saturday 5 January 2013 Last Update 4 January 2013 9:16 pm In a few hundred years, a professor looking for an especially esoteric subject will ask his students to research the Israeli elections of 2013. The students will come back with a...
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The New Zealand Herald
| 4 months ago
Saturday Jan 5, 2013 Unrest which began with Arab Spring is sharpening the Sunni-Shia divide and fanning impatience with leadership. Across many parts of the Muslim world, 2013 is set to be a turbulent and bloody year as secularists battle with...
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Washington Post
| 4 months ago
Hamas has enjoyed a surge of popularity among Palestinians after firing rockets deep into Israel during the recent conflict , and Fatah has been buoyed by the statehood vote at the United Nations, spurring renewed moves to carry out a stalled...
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Boston.com
| 4 months ago
Gaza Strip (AP) Tens of thousands of Fatah supporters rallied in the Hamas stronghold of Gaza on Friday for the first time since they were routed from power there by the Islamist militants in 2007. The rally, approved by Gaza's Hamas rulers, marks a...
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Russia Today
| 4 months ago
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says he intends on pressing forward with a statehood bid at the United Nations next week. He has turned down requests from the US, Britain, Germany and France to delay the bid...It's the first mass Fatah gathering...
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Canadian Free Press
| 4 months ago
Mahmoud Abbas's folly in unilaterally approaching the United Nations in breach of the Oslo Accords has been neatly summed up by CBS News foreign affairs analyst Pamela Falk in her article Is Palestine now a State? In the end, the Resolution does not...
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Al Jazeera English
| 4 months ago
11 Fatah has not been allowed to organise rallies in Gaza since Hamas ousted Fatah's forces five years ago [AFP] Hamas, which governs Gaza, has allowed the West Bank political party, Fatah, to celebrate its 48th anniversary by staging a rally in Gaza...
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The Daily Star
| 4 months ago
A slender majority of Israelis support the creation of a separate Palestinian state, but did not have high hopes for a peace deal, a survey said on Friday. The survey by daily Israel Hayom asked more than 800 Israelis "do you support or oppose the...
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Jerusalem Post
| 4 months ago
Palestinian rivals signal desire for national reconciliation; Egypt says it's planning new talks between Hamas and Fatah amid Israeli fears of a Hamas takeover of the West Bank. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians joined a rare rally staged by PA...
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Associated Press
| 4 months ago
The Fatah party of Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is staging its first rally in the Islamist Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip since 2007, reflecting warming ties between the two rival factions. Tens of thousands marched Friday carrying...
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International Middle East Media Center
| 4 months ago
Israeli troops wounded 42 Palestinian civilians, including 8 children, in the West Bank, and a Palestinian child who was collecting rubble and firewood in the northwest of Beit Hanoun in Gaza. Israeli attacks in the West Bank: The Israeli Forces...
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United Press International
| 4 months ago
What does it mean when Bashar Assad's regime bombs the Yarmouk -- Syria's largest Palestinian refugee neighborhood? Driving dozens of formerly pro-government Palestinian fighters to defect and join the rebels...In September, following the death of an...
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Salem News
| 4 months ago
Obama was reelected president of the USA, a country still under Israeli occupation. So he fails to make Israel accountable for violating International Law and even American law. US law prohibits funding a country that persistently violates human...
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International Middle East Media Center
| 4 months ago
Israeli authorities concerning significant facilities on the closure imposed on the civilians in the Gaza Strip, for more than six years. Israeli authorities to first of all lift this unjust closure completely, as it is a form of collective...
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j.
| 4 months ago
Israel's Channel 10 and conducted jointly with the newspaper Haaretz that he, unlike Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, would not promise that there would not be a third intifada, although he believes it could be a nonviolent uprising.
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j.
| 4 months ago
Israel's leftist-centrist parties responded with scathingly harsh criticism this week to a plan floated by senior Likud officials to pay Palestinians to leave Israel. A number of Likud members, specifically Moshe Feiglin, coalition chairman Zeev...
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Jerusalem Post
| 4 months ago
Kurt Strazdins and Kurt Strazdins/MCT As I did at the beginning of 2012, this column will provide a forecast of the world, regional and Israeli scene in the coming year. In 2012, I was right in some departments: the elections of Barack Obama and...
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Jerusalem Post
| 4 months ago
Moshe Milner/GPO Iran has not yet crossed the red line that Israel set on its nuclear program, and Israel remains determined to prevent Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Thursday. Netanyahu was speaking at...
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The Economist
| 4 months ago
AS A general election on January 22nd looms, a new party on Israel's bellicose right has rushed into the reckoning. Opinion polls suggest that Habayit Hayehudi (Jewish Home), led by Naftali Bennett, a 40-year-old software tycoon, could get as many as...
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United Press International
| 4 months ago
Israeli security forces have stirred unrest in the West Bank over recent days by arresting Palestinian activists in what appears to be a campaign to head off a third intifada, or uprising, amid Israeli plans to expand Jewish settlements.
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Taiwan News
| 4 months ago
Israeli undercover troops broke into a West Bank apartment building in a failed arrest raid Thursday, igniting a violent protest and signaling that Israeli-Palestinian security coordination may be in trouble, officials said.
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Ynet News
| 4 months ago
Violence Continues Riot near Jenin earlier this week Photo: AP Clash in West Bank (Archives) Photo: AFP Troops seeking to arrest top terror operative are met with resistance as 500-strong crowd attacks them with rocks, fire bombs; soldiers forced...
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Arab News
| 4 months ago
Three Israeli rightwing parties, including two that are expected to be part of the next government after elections this month, are talking seriously about annexing all or part of the occupied West Bank. Seized by Israel in the 1967 Six Day War, the...
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The Daily Star
| 5 months ago
Israeli security forces fire tear gas at Palestinian protestors during clashes in the northern West Bank village of Qusra on January 1, 2013. Israel plans to step up arrests of suspected militants in the occupied West Bank to prevent a rising tide of...
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Jerusalem Post
| 5 months ago
Nabil Sha'ath, a member of the Fatah Central Council, met in the city with Ismail Haniyeh, prime minister of the Hamas government, who congratulated Fatah on the anniversary. Haniyeh expressed hope that the Fatah event would pave the way for...
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Magic City Morning Star
| 5 months ago
Wherever in the Western world you find large groups of Muslims, you also find a correspondingly large amount of gang rape with Muslims the perpetrators and native white girls the victims. Reports about "Asian" rape gangs appear almost every day in...
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The Washington Times
| 5 months ago
The conflict raging in Syria for 20-plus months to oust Bashar Assad from power has evolved into a sectarian battle for Middle East supremacy by two ancient enemies: Sunni and Shiite Muslims...It's vitally important for the Obama administration to...
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International Middle East Media Center
| 5 months ago
Likud Officials Call On Government To Annex C Area In West Bank Israeli sources reported that two senior officials of the Likud Party of Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, called on the government to officially annex C area of the occupied...
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Russia Today
| 5 months ago
The Israeli prime minister has vowed to continue building settlements in the Israeli capital of Jerusalem, defying near-unanimous international criticism of the illegal activity in retaliation for Palestine's upgraded UN status...Violence renewed...
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The Daily Star
| 5 months ago
The Daily Star During the violence between Gaza and Southern Israel last month, I was shocked that some of my friends were posting images on Facebook that supported the disproportionate force Israel used against Gazans. When I asked why, they all...
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Arab News
| 5 months ago
Abdul Rahman Al-Rashid Thursday 3 January 2013 Last Update 2 January 2013 9:31 pm This is how Mahmoud Abbas, commonly known as Abu Mazen, threatened Israelis, when he said that he would dismantle the Palestinian Authority (PA) and give the keys to...
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The Independent
| 5 months ago
When Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hosted his annual meeting with the foreign press a couple of weeks ago he was in buoyant mood. At one point he feigned not to hear a question from a reporter who quoted a recent poll suggesting that 81...
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Haaretz
| 5 months ago
Design by Roni Arie Accelerated by cotendo Haaretz.com, the online edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, and analysis from Israel and the Middle East. Haaretz.com provides extensive and in-depth coverage of Israel, the Jewish World and the Middle...
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The Observer
| 5 months ago
Jim Hollander/EPA Prominent members of Israel 's ruling Likud party have proposed the annexation of part of the West Bank as the battle for rightwing votes intensifies before the general election in less than three weeks. Government minister Yuli...
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The Daily Star
| 5 months ago
An employee holds sheets of newly printed ballots in preparation for Israel's upcoming January 22 national elections, at a warehouse in Jerusalem January 1, 2013. In a matter of months, Yair Lapid has turned from heartthrob television news anchor...
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Israel National News
| 5 months ago
Everyone knows that Hamas could take over the Palestinian Authority. It could happen after an agreement, it could happen before an agreement, like it happened in Gaza. Therefore, as opposed to the voices that I have heard recently urging me to run...
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Ynet News
| 5 months ago
Amos Ben-Gershom, GPO Peres Photo: Ohad Zwigenberg In thinly-veiled criticism of President Peres, Netanyahu says hastiness could result in Hamas takeover of West Bank Yuval Karni Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leveled thinly veiled criticism at...
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Jerusalem Post
| 5 months ago
But Edelstein and Elkin cautioned that this was a process that should happen slowly, not immediately. They were among a slate of speakers at a Jerusalem conference organized by Women in Green, called the Application of Israeli sovereignty over Judea...
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Jerusalem Post
| 5 months ago
In apparent response to president's call to renew talks with Mahmoud Abbas, Netanyahu says in spite of "voices urging concessions," he will avoid allowing a "third Iranian terror base" in Israel by putting security before peace. Photo: GPO Prime...
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DAWN
| 5 months ago
ONE despot fell, an ex-dictator was convicted and a reigning president was fighting to maintain his 40-year-old dynastic rule as the year drew to a close over the Middle East. The one to fall was Ali Abdullah Saleh, who ruled Yemen for over three...
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The Guardian
| 5 months ago
Reuters The spectre of military confrontation with Iran , igniting a wider Middle East conflict, looms large as 2013 begins...According to recent reports from Israel , Binyamin Netanyahu was ready to attack Tehran's suspect nuclear facilities as long...
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Newyork Times
| 5 months ago
Rina Castelnuovo for The New York Times Residents in Rishon LeZion, a Tel Aviv suburb that was attacked in November. Such a demand was hardly imaginable here before a rocket struck a building in the western part of town on Nov. 20 the first fired...
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Salem News
| 5 months ago
This Christmas the Palestinian embassy in London sent out a particularly pathetic message. Headed Palestine mulling ICC if UN takes no action on settlements , it warned that if the UN Security Council didn't act against Israeli settlements Palestine...
