MIDEAST: Rabbis Take on Settlers
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By Mel Frykberg
AWARTA, West Bank, Oct 21 (IPS) – Away from the media spotlight that focuses on the widening chasm between Israelis and Palestinians, a group of Israeli humanists is quietly working to break down barriers with their Palestinian neighbours.
Rabbi Arik Ascherman, director of [...]
POLITICS: U.S. Berated for Shielding Israel on Gaza Killings
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Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 14 (IPS) – A U.S. decision to stall Security Council action against Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas for war crimes during the 22-day conflict in Gaza last December has come under heavy fire both from inside and outside the [...]
U.S. ‘Personality Assassination’ of a Palestinian Ally
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By Nicola Nasser*
The report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, which the head of the mission, Judge Richard Goldstone, presented to the Human Rights Council (HRC) on September 29, prematurely plunged the Palestinian Authority (PA) in a short –lived euphoria over what it [...]
Israel pays close attention as Iran nuclear talks set to start
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With crucial talks aimed at curtailing Irans nuclear program set to begin, the rhetoric is heating up. On Thursday, the United States, along with the other permanent members of the United Nations S…
MIDEAST: Jerusalem Palestinians Defining Their Own Future
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By Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler
EAST JERUSALEM, Sep 25 (IPS) – Almost a year ago a barely noticed event took place in Sawarha, a Palestinian neighbourhood in the Israeli-occupied part of the city.
On that November day, Israeli Jerusalemites were voting in a new mayor [...]
MIDEAST: ‘Lay Not Thine Hand Upon the Boy’
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By Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler
TEL AVIV, Aug 3 (IPS) – "And He said, Lay not thine hand upon the boy, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God" (Genesis 22:12). Not so much in fear of God [...]
MIDEAST: Obama Maneuvres Between Jewish Israelis, Jewish Americans
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Analysis by Helena Cobban*
WASHINGTON, Jul 31 (IPS) – Pres. Barack Obama has repeatedly declared himself a close friend of Israel. But many Israelis inside and outside their country’s government have now expressed concern about the lack of closeness, or even just of attention, with which [...]
MIDEAST: Suddenly, It’s Advantage Fatah, and a Solution
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Analysis by Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler
JERUSALEM, Aug 13 (IPS) – Has the just-ended Fatah party convention, concluded in a cavalcade of personnel change, affected the prospects for a two-state solution that might finally resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?
Even more than the dramatic shift of power from the [...]
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