Global IssuesNews headlines for “Palestine and Israel”, page 15
ISRAEL: Not When Desert Is Home
- Inter Press Service
'Anyone who lives sees, but he who moves sees more,' a local Bedouin proverb has it. Caught in a web of roads and fences, electric cables and pylons, closed military training grounds and trails of Air Force jets, Bedouin Israelis have long been reduced to a half-hearted life of immobility.
EGYPT: Military More Repressive Than Mubarak
- Inter Press Service
Egyptians hoping for greater freedoms and less police brutality after the fall of president Hosni Mubarak say the military council that has ruled in his place has carried on the ex-dictator's brutal legacy, and in some cases exceeded it.
EGYPT: It’s January Again in Tahrir Square
- Inter Press Service
Days of clshes between protesters and security forces culminated on Tuesday evening in what was estimated to be a million-man rally in Cairo's Tahrir Square to demand an end to military rule. The new political crisis has prompted fears that Egypt's first post-Mubarak parliamentary polls, slated to begin only five days from now, could be called off.
MIDEAST: Erdogan Most Popular Leader By Far Among Arabs
- Inter Press Service
Despite repeated expressions of support by President Barack Obama for democratic change during the 'Arab Spring', the United States remains widely distrusted in the region, according to a major new survey of public opinion in five Arab countries released here Monday.
Egyptians Launch New Battle for Minimum Wage
- Inter Press Service
Mohamed El-Abyad's employer has agreed to increase his salary by 20 percent, but the factory worker still cannot afford to send his children to school. After paying his apartment rent and utilities, El-Abyad will have the equivalent of 20 dollars left over each month to put food on his family's table. And while education is mandatory, he pulled both his sons out of school to help cover the shortfall.
ISRAEL: Women Push Back Into Public Space
- Inter Press Service
They're looking at you 'uncensored'. Posters of women by women have recently multiplied on the holy city walls. 'Women on billboards are back in Jerusalem,' they proclaim defiantly.
US-IRAN: Key Senator Pushes 'Nuclear Option' Against Central Bank
- Inter Press Service
Amid simmering tensions surrounding Iran's nuclear programme, a key pro-Israel U.S. senator has tabled legislation that would effectively ban international financial companies that do business with the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) from participating in the U.S. economy.
LIBYA: Headed for Some Sort of Sharia
- Inter Press Service
The announced introduction of Islamic law in post-Gaddafi Libya has drawn strong opposition from women, the non-religious and the Amazigh minority.
MIDEAST: Israeli Military Fires Up the Creative Side
- Inter Press Service
War brings economic development, we're told at times. Like the cliché or not, in their case, Israelis have become a successful start-up nation by building a powerful start-up military.
U.S.: 'Israel's Advocate' to Leave White House for Pro-Israel Think Tank
- Inter Press Service
Dennis Ross, President Barack Obama's top Middle East aide who has attracted criticism for his allegedly strong pro-Israel sympathies, will leave his post at the end of this month, the White House announced here Thursday.
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