Global IssuesNews headlines for “Palestine and Israel”, page 17
TURKEY: Media Bares Its Anti-Kurdish Bias
- Inter Press Service
Following the attacks by Kurdish rebels against the Turkish military last week, the Turkish press has openly struck a nationalist and militaristic tone.
MIDEAST: UNESCO Becomes a New Battleground
- Inter Press Service
Palestine’s bid to become a member of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has created a tense atmosphere here, as the United States threatens to cut financing if the application is approved.
EGYPT: Mubarak Men Begin to Resurface
- Inter Press Service
Members of the regime of ousted dictator Hosni Mubarak have demanded to be allowed to run in upcoming elections and warned of violence if legislation to prohibit their political ambitions is passed.
MIDEAST: Israel Evicting the Indigenous
- Inter Press Service
As Israel moves ahead with a plan to forcibly displace tens of thousands of Palestinian Bedouins in the occupied West Bank, Mohammad Al-Korshan and his family are facing the real prospect of not only losing their home, but their traditional way of life.
LIBYA: Hatred Divides Libya After Gaddafi
- Inter Press Service
The long-time dictator who ruled Libya for nearly four decades with an iron fist may be gone, but racial hatred surfaces increasingly now by the day.
EGYPT: Bumpy Ride to a New Human Rights City
- Inter Press Service
The upheaval of the Arab Spring has provided fertile ground to plant the seed of a new framework for human rights that moves beyond monitoring violations. Rights advocates want to integrate human rights into the fabric of daily life and are working at the community level to establish the first Human Rights City in the Middle East.
U.S. Looks Increasingly Irrelevant as Mideast Peace Broker
- Inter Press Service
While a growing number of influential voices here and in the region insist that the nearly 20-year, U.S.-sponsored 'peace process' has reached its terminal phase, the administration of President Barack Obama remains committed to reviving direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO).
U.S. May Have Concealed Deterrent Aim of Iranian Plan
- Inter Press Service
Scepticism about the U.S. allegation of an Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador has focused on doubts that high-level Iranian officials would have used someone like used car salesman Monssor Arbabsiar to carry out the mission.
As 2012 Polls Loom, Caution's the Word for Obama Foreign Policy
- Inter Press Service
U.S. presidents seeking a second term are not known for taking risks in foreign policy in election years.
OP-ED: A Long and Winding Road to the End for Gaddafi
- Inter Press Service
I came across an anti-Gaddafi demonstration for the first time in February 2011 in Baghdad’s Tahrir square. Zine El Abidine Ben Ali — Tunisia’s former ruler - had left the country a few weeks ago and then Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak would be ousted only a few days later. In the framework of the 'Arab spring', angry Iraqis were also protesting against their corrupt government and the lack of opportunities.
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