Global IssuesNews headlines for “Palestine and Israel”, page 22
LEBANON: Cluster Bombs Could Kill for Years
- Inter Press Service
Even in the summer heat, the hills of South Lebanon are an impressive sight - a patchwork of green, brown and red fields interrupted only by sleepy villages, rock formations and dirt tracks.
OP-ED: Double Standards: the Case of Itamar Awarta
- Inter Press Service
Last March, a vicious crime occurred in the occupied Palestinian territories. Five members of an Israeli settler family were slain in their home in Itamar, a settlement in the northern West Bank. A mother, father, two young children and a three-month-old were all stabbed to death.
U.N. Racism Meet Threatens North-South Confrontation
- Inter Press Service
A high-level meeting on racism, scheduled to take place later this month under the auspices of the General Assembly, is threatening to split the world body and trigger a North-South confrontation.
LIBYA: New Chapter Opens After Gaddafi
- Inter Press Service
Libyan children will go back to school without Muammar Gaddafi’s ubiquitous presence, despite a lack of new books.
ISRAEL: Netanyahu Besieged, From Within and Without
- Inter Press Service
More and more Israelis seem to realise that the only policy that causes bad luck is bad policy. In a fortnight, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu found himself politically besieged from within and from without.
EGYPT: Mubarak Faces Court Without the Circus
- Inter Press Service
With the trial of Hosni Mubarak set to resume Monday, attorneys representing the families of protesters killed during Egypt’s uprising are trying to cut out the deadwood in their midst.
Flotilla Report Leaks, Turkey Expels Israeli Ambassador
- Inter Press Service
A highly anticipated and controversial report on Israel's May 2010 interception of an aid flotilla bound for the Gaza Strip and subsequent killing of nine civilians and wounding of many others was finally leaked on Thursday, as diplomatic relations between Israel and Turkey continued to deteriorate.
MEDIA-IRAQ: ‘Protection’ Law Offers Little Safety
- Inter Press Service
When Ali Sumerian, an editor for Al-Sabah newspaper, and three local media colleagues sat down for a restaurant meal after reporting on a demonstration in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square on Feb. 25 this year, security forces detained them. 'We were accused of encouraging an anti-political process,' says Sumerian. It was only after their arrest triggered a media outcry, he says, were they released 12 hours later. The four were just some of the journalists attacked and arrested that day.
MIDEAST: Israelis Stage an Investigation Act
- Inter Press Service
Israeli soldiers and security forces have conducted a string of arrests and violent raids over recent weeks, at Jenin’s renowned Freedom Theatre, in their investigation into the murder of actor Juliano Mer-Khamis, the theatre’s former director and co-founder, earlier this year.
OP-ED: Language Becomes a Political Weapon in Israel
- Inter Press Service
Speaking to the U.S. congress in May, Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu boasted that his country is a beacon of freedom in the Middle East and North Africa, that it is the only place where Arabs 'enjoy real democratic rights'.
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