1. Fanfare or damp squib?
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Fanfare or damp squib? As printed in the Toronto Star The Palestinian effort to end the four year old internal strife and forge a national unity government has run into difficulties
Sunday, 26 June 2011
2. New Gateway for Gaza
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...days and holidays. People will be able to freely enter and leave the strip “to ease the suffering of the Palestinian people”, a statement by the foreign ministry said. Until now, they coul...
Friday, 27 May 2011
3. Egypt’s role in Palestinian deal shows its new stance
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Egypt’s role in Palestinian deal shows its new stance As printed in the Toronto Star The fanfare touting the end of internal Palestinian strife can justifiably be met with ske
Sunday, 01 May 2011
4. Handle with Care
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...was the head of a panel commissioned by the United Nations to investigate the conduct of Israel, Hamas and the Palestinian Authority during Operation Cast Lead, better known as the war in Gaza in the ...
Sunday, 03 April 2011
5. Vindication and indignation
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...;crimes against humanity” in the January 2009 campaign against the radical-Islamic Hamas movement in the Palestinian enclave on the Mediterranean. Writing in an open letter in the Washington Pos...
Sunday, 03 April 2011
6. Israel’s magic bullets
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...iers to break out with joy when they get shot at. This week however, Israel’s army almost exulted when a Palestinian commando attacked one of its tanks with a rocket propelled grenade (RPG) whil...
Sunday, 06 March 2011
7. Trying to break out of isolation
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...’s Prime Minister plans a new peace initiative to try and break out of his increasing isolation. So far, Palestinian s and allies alike react skeptically at best. Israel’s government has be...
Wednesday, 02 March 2011
8. Israel fears regional changes
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... Muslim Brotherhood (MB), the largest and most disciplined opposition group. This is just what happened in the Palestinian election that led to the takeover by the radical-Islamic Hamas, an offspring ...
Wednesday, 02 February 2011
9. Who's next?
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...s in the most delicate missions, brokering a cease fire between Israel and Hamas and mediating in the constant Palestinian infighting. The generals see him as one of theirs, and as someone who has han...
Monday, 31 January 2011
10. Stronger than any State
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...irst to broadcast the tapes of Osama Bin Laden and his deputy. It airs documentaries hailing Dalal Mughrabi, a Palestinian woman responsible for the death of 36 Israeli civilians, for her “heroi...
Thursday, 27 January 2011
11. Deal or Dignity
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...thing demonstrates the gap between secret and public diplomacy as well as Monday’s response to news that Palestinian negotiators had discussed major concessions in confidential Mideast peace tal...
Tuesday, 25 January 2011
12. Is it a bird?
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...rted that 14 spy-squirrels. Working for the West, had been arrested “at the very last moment”. The Palestinian news wire WAFA reported a few years ago during the Intifada that Israelis wer...
Wednesday, 05 January 2011
13. Back to square one
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...one The pessimists were right again: Barely three months after direct negotiations between Israelis and Palestinian s took off, and two months after they went into hibernation, the US has admitt...
Wednesday, 08 December 2010
14. The real foe
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...ispatches from the Middle East slowly being released by Wikileak concern themselves with Iran, not the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Early concerns were voiced in 2005, shortly after hardliner Mahmoud...
Monday, 29 November 2010
15. Talks going nowhere
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...ng nowhere After a seven week hiatus in the peace talks, the White House is eager to get Israelis and Palestinian s back to the negotiation table. Intense diplomatic pressure and copious incen...
Thursday, 18 November 2010
16. Heartland of two states
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... building freeze on Sunday. Settlement expansion, however, could derail the peace process between Israelis and Palestinian s. © 2008 Gil Yaron - Making the Middle East Understandable ...
Thursday, 23 September 2010
17. Silence is golden
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Silence is golden The onset of direct negotiations between Israelis and Palestinian s did reveal any major surprises. Most actors said exactly what pundits expected them to. However, hope
Friday, 03 September 2010
...de and outside of Israel and Palestine. *Dollars, Dhimmis and Development – Is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict really so important? No other conflict commands so much world attent...
Tuesday, 20 July 2010
19. A tale of two ships
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... greatest military powers of the time. The above encounter did not involve Israeli commandos fighting pro-Palestinian activists aboard the Mavi Marmara, the flagship of the “Freedom Flotill...
Friday, 04 June 2010
20. A Background on the siege on Gaza
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...render any trade impossible. Israel responds that these closings are the result of recurring terror attacks by Palestinian militants that have repeatedly claimed the lives of Israeli workers at the cr...
Monday, 31 May 2010
21. The White Intifada
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The White Intifada After an 18 month hiatus, Israelis and Palestinian s have finally agreed to return to the negotiating table. But even as indirect talks have been scheduled to recommenc
Sunday, 09 May 2010
22. Different from what you thought
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...ted by Ashton’s very own words. Israel has been involved in the very same wars as the Arab world and the Palestinian s, but, in Ashton’s own words, it is a prospering “21st century co...
Sunday, 28 March 2010
23. Shopping for your country
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Shopping for your country During the Second Intifada, the Palestinian uprising, Nablus was known as the “Capital of Terror.” Armed gangs controlled the city’s streets
Monday, 03 August 2009
24. Squaring the circle
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...as a "historical breakthrough." For the first time, this right wing ideologue uttered the word "Palestinian State" and promised not to build new settlements. On the other hand, he ...
Sunday, 14 June 2009
...rael High Court of Justice Höchster Gerichtshof in Israel Palestinian Media Center Palästinensische Info Site ...
Saturday, 29 November 2008