Global IssuesNews headlines for “Palestine and Israel”, page 7
Palestinian Rights Retreat to Backburner
- Inter Press Service
The latest tit-for-tat confrontation which earlier this week pitted Israel against Islamist factions operating from the Gaza Strip follows a conditioning pattern which highlights the marginalisation in the international arena of the Palestinian aspirations to freedom and independence.
Little U.S. Popular Support for Israeli Attack on Iran
- Inter Press Service
Amidst persistent speculation over a possible Israeli military attack against Iranian nuclear facilities in the wake of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit here, a detailed new public opinion survey released Tuesday suggests that such a move would enjoy little support in the United States.
Alleged Photos of 'Clean-up' at Iran's Parchin Site Lack Credibility
- Inter Press Service
News stories about satellite photographs suggesting efforts by Iran to 'sanitise' a military site that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has said may have been used to test nuclear weapons have added yet another layer to widely held suspicion that Iran must indeed be hiding a covert nuclear weapons programme.
Israel Faces an Army of the Ultra-Orthodox
- Inter Press Service
The High Court of Justice in Israel has annulled the 2002 Tal Law that had allowed Yeshiva students - scholars of Jewish religious texts - to avoid an otherwise mandatory service in the Israeli army. While politicians on the left and right welcome the court’s decision, the Haredim community considers it an assault on their way of life.
Palestinian Children Inherit Political Separation
- Inter Press Service
For Taiseer Khatib and his wife Lana, the most difficult aspect of Israel’s policy of forced family separation is the impact it is having on their children. 'Our children are paying the price psychologically. We are trying to protect them, but they have a good sense of what’s going on and they understand that there’s something wrong,' Khatib, who has two children under the age of five, Adnan and Yosra, tells IPS.
U.S.: Bomb-Iran Week Turns Syrious
- Inter Press Service
This week was supposed to be all about Iran — at least, that's how Israel and its powerful U.S. lobby, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), had planned it - and why the U.S. should prepare to bomb it very, very soon if its leadership doesn't cave into Western demands to abandon its nuclear programme.
No Red Lines, But No Red Light Either
- Inter Press Service
Intense consultations at the highest level between the U.S. and Israel on how to coordinate their respective strategies vis-à-vis Iran indicate that a strike on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear sites, if launched by Israel, the U.S., or in tandem, wouldn’t occur this spring, probably not even before November.
Festival Brings Human Drama from Headlines to the Screen
- Inter Press Service
The often heroic struggles of some of the world's human rights victims and advocates are on full view at the Toronto Human Rights Watch Film Festival, which runs through Friday at the TIFF Bell Lightbox theatre.
U.S. Weapons Claiming Palestinian Lives, Group Says
- Inter Press Service
A new policy paper published earlier this week by the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation documents a number of cases occurring over the past decade in which weapons and ammunition produced and financed by the U.S. have been used to kill unarmed Palestinians and U.S. citizens.
After Pro-Israel Conference, Gaps Remain Between Netanyahu and Obama
- Inter Press Service
More than 10,000 U.S. citizens descended on Capitol Hill Tuesday under the direction of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the leading voice of the powerful Israel lobby here, to urge their congressional representatives to take a more aggressive stance towards Iran.
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