Global IssuesNews headlines for “Palestine and Israel”, page 24
EGYPT: The Mubarak Show Goes Into Hiding
- Inter Press Service
In a shuttered Cairo café, Egyptians crane their necks to watch the courtroom drama unfolding on a small television screen mounted high on the wall. The camera pans across the crowded courtroom and zooms in on a frail old man lying on a stretcher inside the caged defendants' box. Part Godfather, part Hannibal Lecter, he is the feared head of a powerful family at the centre of a web of violence and corruption. Beside him are his two sons, one known for shady business deals, the other groomed to head the cartel.
SYRIA: Driving Into a Divided Land
- Inter Press Service
Scores of buses carrying Syrians out of the country are waiting in uneven lines on the Lebanese-Syrian border for their paperwork to be processed. There are no Arab or Western tourists eager to cross to the other side, usually seen in hordes this time of year.
MIDEAST: Palestinians Strike to Seek Historic Agreement
- Inter Press Service
Nestled between rolling hills just outside of Jerusalem, a dozen Palestinian workers have escaped the scorching summer heat in the shade of a makeshift tent, where they anxiously wait to sign what would be the first collective bargaining agreement between Palestinian workers and an Israeli employer.
LEBANON: Women Prisoners Play the Liberation Role
- Inter Press Service
To a soundtrack of almost constant pounding of fists against iron doors, drama therapist Zeina Daccache is trying to capture the attention of a group of women prisoners. Many of the 45 women are suffering from drug withdrawal and alternately appear agitated, upset, energised and detached. Others chat loudly, take long puffs off cigarettes, or pace the room.
MIDEAST: To Save From the Sea, and the Siege
- Inter Press Service
It's a sunny Gaza morning and although a work day, the beach along Sheik Rajleen has enough people on it to keep Gaza's small number of lifeguards busy and alert. From a simple, raised wooden hut, a team of three monitor the sea, periodically calling out to swimmers below to move to calmer waters.
EGYPT: Sinai Simmers in Security Vacuum
- Inter Press Service
Even before the recent revolution, Egypt's strategic Sinai Peninsula - inhabited mostly by restive Bedouin tribesmen - had a reputation for lawlessness. But in the months since the popular uprising that led to Mubarak's February ouster, the situation in Sinai appears more precarious than ever.
MIDEAST: Divided We Execute
- Inter Press Service
The execution of a Palestinian father and son by Hamas security forces in Gaza throws up a sharp difference over the death penalty between Gaza and the West Bank. In the West Bank a temporary moratorium in in place.
EGYPT: Labour Unions Shake Off Old Masters
- Inter Press Service
The trade union federation that ex-dictator Hosni Mubarak used to repress labour movements and mobilise regime support for sham elections during his 30-year rule has been disbanded, striking a powerful blow to the old order.
ISRAEL: Rights Recede Under Opium of Occupation
- Inter Press Service
The nationwide movement for social justice that sent tens of thousands of Israelis to the streets on the weekend was seemingly oblivious to the fact that, concurrently, the Palestinians were officially announcing their bid for U.N.- endorsed recognition of statehood.
NGOs Cry 'Sabotage' Over U.N. Meeting on Racism
- Inter Press Service
A coalition of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) is accusing the U.N. Secretariat of 'sabotaging' an upcoming high-level meeting on racism by upstaging it with a nuclear security summit scheduled for the same day.
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