Global IssuesNews headlines for “Palestine and Israel”, page 26
U.S. Muslims More Tolerant, Opposed to Violence than Other Faiths
- Inter Press Service
Muslims in the United States express greater tolerance for members of other faiths than any other major religious group, according to a major new survey and report released here Thursday by the Abu Dhabi Gallup Center.
Palestinian Bedouin a Besieged Minority of the Minority
- Inter Press Service
Israeli policies are destroying the livelihoods of Bedouin communities in the occupied West Bank and the Negev in southern Israel, activists and aid workers warn.
JORDAN: Ripe for Reform, Slow to Change
- Inter Press Service
Having weathered the maelstrom that engulfed the Middle East earlier this year, Jordan's government has faced simmering unrest as protesters continue to press for political and economic reforms.
Boats Run Short of Sea to Sail On
- Inter Press Service
'My father was a boat-builder and I learned from him, worked on boats all my life. Now there's no work at all.' Abu Fayez Bakr, 64, is one of two boat-builders in the Gaza Strip, the last of a dying trade, despite Palestinians' penchant for the sea and its bounty.
U.N. Rights Committee Breaks 43-Year Israeli Taboo on Gaza
- Inter Press Service
When the United Nations General Assembly created a three- member special committee to investigate Israeli human rights violations in occupied territories back in December 1968, the Jewish state reacted with obvious anger.
MIDEAST: Palestinians Prepare for Massive Uprising
- Inter Press Service
Leading members of the Palestinian Popular Committees in the West Bank plan massive civil unrest and disobedience against the Israeli occupation authorities come September when the Palestinians take their case for statehood to the UN.
EGYPT: Defections Threaten to Crack Muslim Brotherhood
- Inter Press Service
For the last 40 years, the Muslim Brotherhood's united front has been the envy of Egypt's political opposition. But in the six months since the fall of the Mubarak regime, the Islamist group has been racked by unprecedented internal divisions.
Iran's Image Plummets in Arab World, Poll Finds
- Inter Press Service
Iranian leaders have tried to portray democracy movements in the Arab world as inspired by their 1979 Islamic revolution and predicted that Iran's regional support would grow as pro- Western dictators fell.
U.S.: Key Committee Slashes Foreign Aid, Warns Palestinians
- Inter Press Service
Amidst growing fears of a new fiscal crisis sparked by a possible U.S. debt default next week, a key Republican-led Congressional committee Wednesday approved deep cuts in foreign aid and contributions to the United Nations and other multilateral institutions next year.
MIDEAST: Families Cry Out for Palestinian Prisoners
- Inter Press Service
'We could enter the Guinness book of records for the longest running weekly sit- ins in the world,' Nasser Farrah, from the Palestinian Prisoners' Association, jokes dryly. Since 1995, Palestinian women from Beit Hanoun to Rafah have met every Monday outside the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) office in Gaza City, holding photos and posters of their imprisoned loved ones, calling on the ICRC to ensure the human rights of Palestinians imprisoned in Israel's 24 prisons and detention centres.
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