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Barghouthi: Veto on UN bid tantamount to 'terror'

Jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti has warned that a US veto of a Palestinian bid to join the UN would be tantamount to "terrorism" and would wreck ties with Washington. In an interview conducted through several of his lawyers, Barghouti...

President Mahmoud Abbas said the Palestinian leadership rejected upgrading Palestine to observer status at the UN and would demand full membership, the official news agency Wafa reported. Palestine refuses to be like the Vatican, which is not a member...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday that the targeted killing of the Popular Resistance Committee heads was only the beginning of Israel's response to the attacks in South Israel Thursday that left eight Israelis dead and over twenty...

Fatah will consider delaying elections in the West Bank to allow Hamas to prepare for a vote in Gaza, party official Mohammed Al-Madani said Friday. Al-Madani, Fatah's election commissioner, said electoral preparations were complete for municipal...

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Who is behind the Eilat terror attack?

The horrific terror attacks in Oslo some weeks ago provided a valuable lesson for journalists. Almost as soon as the attacks took place, journalists throughout the world rushed to place blame on Al Qaeda. Jennifer Rubin, a conservative blogger at the...

Israel's student union on Thursday called off planned weekend demonstrations against the high cost of living after a series of terror attacks in the south left seven people dead. "There were meant to be protests throughout the country, with a...

Noam Bar, Haaretz- Arab-Israeli and Palestinian businessmen have joined forces to develop an insurance company that will compete in Israel's insurance market and appeal to the Arab population in the country. Initial estimations suggest that the company...

The worst fears of Imad Farajin, Palestinian actor and author of political satire and TV comedy show "Watan Ala Watar" ("Country on a String"), came true Wednesday when the Palestinian Authority’s attorney general, Ahmad Mughani...

Proposed legislation that would hand the government broad powers to suppress those it deems as terrorists as well as possibly scrap Arabic as an official Israeli language are being blasted by Israeli civil-rights activists as a bid to target the country's...

Israeli authorities are targeting the families of Palestinian detainees in order to deter them from visiting, the Ministry of Detainees in Gaza said Wednesday. In recent months there has been an increase in procedures such as searching female relatives...

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Tarzan and Arab: the Gaza artists determined to make it against all odds

They are determined to succeed as film directors, yet they have never been to a cinema. They studied fine art at university but have never been to a gallery. They would have much in common with young conceptual artists in London, New York or Paris, but...

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Battle of the box

Ramadan is meant to be a time for self-denial and spiritual reflection. For many Muslims it is also occasion for extensive television watching, especially in a year when the lunar calendar placed the fasting month in the heat of August. Tired and hungry...

On his way home from covering the Persian Gulf war, the filmmaker Greg Barker stayed overnight in a small Egyptian village. Early the next morning, an undulating sound awakened him. For someone raised in Southern California, where predawn interruptions...

Zeid Hamdan, 35, singer, composer and producer in the Lebanese band Zeid and the Wings was briefly imprisoned Wednesday morning for defaming Lebanese President Michel Suleiman in his single "General Suleiman." Before Suleiman was elected as...

There was a moment's hesitation before Udi Epstein, the sous-chef at Angelica, an upmarket Jerusalem restaurant, revealed what he had prepared for us to taste. Then he said it in Hebrew. There was another hesitation before the translation was supplied...

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11 Oct 2011 1:10 PM By Editor

A New Palestinian Intifada?

Wendy Pearlman, Foreign Policy - Mahmoud Abbas captured the world's attention with his controversial bid for U.N. recognition of Palestinian statehood. As the world awaits the outcome of that diplomatic contest, one of the key wild cards is the potential...

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7 Oct 2011 11:16 AM By Christa Blackmon

Palestinian refugees weathering the Syrian storm

A Western states backed UN Security Council resolution threatening "targeted measures" against the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad may have been crushed this week by Russia and China's veto, but that is hardly an indication that...

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30 Sep 2011 3:01 PM By Omar Baddar
Washington, DC

Injustice, not hate, is what drives Middle East conflict

An exceptionally disturbing op-ed was published in the Washington Post two days ago by Robert Bernstein, founding member of Human Rights Watch (HRW) who has recently turned against the organization . Bernstein’s op-ed opens with the allegation that...

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23 Sep 2011 9:47 AM By Steve Feldman
PROFESSOR OF DERMATOLOGY.WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY

"If they can get what they want without concessions, why negotiate?"

Presidential hopeful Rick Perry asks a great question, “If they [Palestinians] perceive they can get what they want from the U.N. without making any concessions why should they negotiate with Israel? It is a great question. But let’s take...

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22 Sep 2011 2:00 PM By Natalia Simanovsky
Israel

Internationally recognised Palestine in Israel’s best interest?

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is wearing thin the patience of the international community. As we creep closer to the date when the majority of UN member states officially lend their support to the Palestinian bid for statehood, Israel will find itself...

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22 Sep 2011 11:11 AM By Steve Clemons
PUBLISHER OF "THE WASHINGTON NOTE"

Obama Tells Palestinians to Stay in Back of Bus

President Obama's speech at the United Nations yesterday paled in comparison to the soaring, expectation raising addresses he gave early in his administration, particularly in Cairo, but also at past UN General Assembly gatherings. The President has...

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14 Sep 2011 1:43 PM By Editor

The Palestinian's Non-violent Path to Statehood

- In 2007, a visit to the West Bank city of Nablus required passage through one of the most notorious checkpoints in the area: Checkpoint Hawara. Named after the small village in which it cuts off from Nablus, Checkpoint Hawara was known throughout the...

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13 Sep 2011 3:29 PM By Editor

The end of the "Israeli Spring"

When young Israeli professionals erected a tent city on Tel Aviv's Rothschild Boulevard in protest against the Netanyahu government's indifference to an affordable housing crisis in Israel, they self-consciously modeled their efforts on the popular...

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9 Sep 2011 11:19 AM By Omar Baddar
Washington, DC

Commentary Should Be Renamed "Paranoia Magazine"

Stupidity has an interesting quality: in small pieces it can frustrate, but in slightly bigger chunks you can’t help but laugh at it. Magazine seems to have a knack for the latter kind of stupidity. A few months ago, its Executive Director Jonathan...

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7 Sep 2011 10:42 AM By Editor

U.N.'s Gaza flotilla report adrift at sea

Sari Bashi, - For months, since the contents of the report prepared by a UN panel charged with reviewing the May 2010 Gaza flotilla incident (the Palmer Report) began to appear in news media coverage, it has been clear that the report would not provide...

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Syrians cross into Jordan

Al Jazeera - Syrians fleeing unrest in their country are crossing into neighbouring Jordan. Al Jazeera's Jane Arraf reports from Ramtha on the border...

Best J14 animation ever: “The Israel Machine”

Noam Sheizaf, +972 - There have been many inspiring or funny J14 videos posted in recent weeks, but this one is by far the best, getting all the important...

Julia Bacha: Pay attention to nonviolence

TED - In 2003, the Palestinian village of Budrus mounted a 10-month-long nonviolent protest to stop a barrier being built across their olive groves. Did...

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