News Source: Inter Press Service
| 3 days ago
Without an efficient bureaucracy, occupation of the land of another people cannot be sustained. This is all the more true of Israel's 42-year occupation of Palestinian lands. The latest example of how bureaucracy is being put to use in sidelining any
News Source: Jerusalem Newswire
| 3 days ago
The EU will issue its call newly empowered by the Lisbon Treaty, which came into affect Tuesday, and which Europeans regard as placing them on a par with the United States. While the Palestinian Arabs have never had a state, Jerusalem became the
News Source: The independent
| 4 days ago
Israel yesterday reacted angrily to a draft EU proposal for East Jerusalem to be a future Palestinian capital that allows the possibility of endorsing a unilaterally declared Palestinian state. A draft policy document by the Swedish EU presidency,
News Source: The Daily Star
| 4 days ago
I continue to believe that a bilaterally negotiated two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization is the optimal outcome and is possible. But not under the leadership currently in power in Jerusalem, Ramallah, Gaza,
News Source: Epoch Times
| 6 days ago
A resident of the settlement Efrat stands on a disputed hilltop next to Efrat that overlooks Bethlehem. (Genevieve Long/The Epoch Times) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's recent announcement of a temporary slowdown in settlement building
News Source: Jerusalem Post
| 7 days ago
Sen. Joe Lieberman, former vice presidential candidate, and Rep. Howard Berman, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee - "nodding their encouragement" at a recent Ramallah press conference, where Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam
News Source: Weekly Arham
| 8 days ago
One PA official close to Abbas was quoted this week as saying that Abbas had no choice but to delay the polls. "The president has reached the conclusion that it is impossible to hold elections without the Gaza Strip. We are also not sure if Israel
News Source: Weekly Arham
| 8 days ago
The deal would see the release of Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier captured by Palestinian fighters in the Gaza Strip more than three years ago, in exchange for the release from Israeli detention camps of hundreds of Palestinian political prisoners.