Global IssuesNews headlines for “Palestine and Israel”, page 29
MIDEAST: Children Find an Island of Near Normalcy
- Inter Press Service
It is a warm spring day as citizens go about their business. Colourful bougainvilleas climb the building housing the Yaffa Community Centre (YCC). Inside the centre’s kindergarten children play while older students attend a class at the media centre. A group of foreigners is touring the attractively decorated building and getting a brief introduction to its history.
MIDEAST: From the Sea to the Pond
- Inter Press Service
'Farmed fish are now better than sea fish in Gaza. They shouldn't be, but because of the sewage in Gaza's sea and the Israeli fishing restrictions, farmed fish are cleaner and healthier than sea fish.'
MIDEAST: Dancing in a Palestinian Bubble
- Inter Press Service
It’s Thursday night, the beginning of the weekend in the Muslim world, and time to party and let one’s hair down in Ramallah, the occupied West Bank’s isolated bubble and de facto capital.
MIDEAST: Gaza Flotilla Move Sinks
- Inter Press Service
The besieger is besieged, such is the forlorn fact emanating from the order by Greece to block the ships docked at its ports from setting sail to the Palestinian strip of land, and that fact seems to have sealed the Flotilla's fate.
MIDEAST: Israel Denies Healthcare to Refugees
- Inter Press Service
Medication and pillboxes fill two white bookcases, lining the wall behind a volunteer Israeli doctor. He talks to a patient in Hebrew about the man’s medical condition, as another man is examined behind a curtain that divides the small office. In the next room, at least 40 people — mainly of Eritrean and Sudanese origin — sit quietly on plastic chairs, waiting for their turn to be seen.
EGYPT: Parties Proliferate in Political Spring
- Inter Press Service
The liberalisation of Egypt's political process following the Jan. 25 Revolution has led to a proliferation of new political parties, both religiously-oriented and secular. Within the last five months, four new parties have officially launched, while at least 16 others are currently in the pipeline.
PALESTINE: Freedom Flotilla Ready to Sail Despite Threats and Sabotage
- Inter Press Service
As the 10 ships of the Freedom Flotilla II - Stay Human make their final preparations to set sail for the Gaza Strip, purported acts of sabotage have been added to threats from Israel.
MIDEAST: A Zionist Way to Back Palestinians
- Inter Press Service
To many people Rabbi Arik Ascherman would appear to be a contradiction in terms. He is an ardent Zionist and religious Jew who believes that God made a covenant with the Jewish people and the Land of Israel. But the core of Ascherman’s Zionist ideology revolves around fighting for human rights, especially those of the Palestinians.
MIDEAST: Confrontation Begins Before the Sailing
- Inter Press Service
Activists are engaged in a harsh confrontation with Israeli authorities days before the international ‘Freedom Flotilla II — Stay Human’ sets sail towards the Gaza strip in an attempt to break the naval blockade Israel has imposed since 2007.
TURKEY-ISRAEL: Diplomatic Wounds Leave Half-Healed Scars
- Inter Press Service
Turkey and Israel are close to resolving their dispute over last year's flotilla fiasco, but the partnership that existed between them for more than a decade will almost certainly stay submerged.
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