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The Obama administration is expected to face a stern challenge of its foreign policy at the United Nations Security Council Friday if a draft resolution is voted on by members of the council. The Palestinian and Lebanese sponsored draft resolution condemns "the continuation of settlement activities by Israel, the occupying power, in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem..." It furthermore ... read more
January 11, 2011 4:48 PM
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with foreign press representatives on Tuesday, where he described Iran as the main concern for governments in the region. He further asserted that Iran "is determined to move ahead despite every difficulty, every obstacle and every setback to create nuclear weapons". While congratulating the US government insisting on ... read more
January 1, 2011 12:50 PM
A Palestinian woman injured by tear gas on Friday at the weekly demonstration against the security barrier in Bil'in, West Bank, died this morning at a Ramallah hospital according to Palestinian sources. Jawaher Abu Rahma, 36, allegedly inhaled large amounts of tear gas used by IDF soldiers to disperse the protesters. The protest was attended by approximately 1,000 ... read more
December 29, 2010 7:58 AM
Conflict of intersts? Israeli companies taking part in the construction of the new Palestinian city of Rawabi, North of Ramallah, were required to sign a contract forbidding them from using goods, services or resources from the "Israeli settlements" in the West Bank, the Golan Heights and East Jerusalem. According to a report on Israeli Army Radio yesterday, 20 ... read more
December 10, 2010 2:01 PM
Israel's refusal to resume the West Bank construction freeze in order to pave way for direct negotiations with the Palestinians is a major blow to Obama's foreign policy. The announcement ends months of U.S.-Israeli negotiations and can be seen has a virtual death sentence to the latest round of peace talks, since the Palestinians have no intentions of returning to the ... read more
December 8, 2010 2:36 PM
It seems like a couple of billion dollars of free F-35 fighter planes doesn’t buy you a lot in the Middle East these days. Despite multiple incentive offers by the United States, Israel said thanks but “no thanks” to its closest ally. The US announced today that they would stop asking Israel to freeze building on the West Bank where the Palestinians want their future ... read more
November 19, 2010 1:47 PM
Another cycle of violence in the Middle East as Israel strikes targets in Gaza in retaliation for a barrage of mortars fired earlier today by Palestinian militants from Gaza. The group firing the rockets, The Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) says this was retaliation after Israel killed two Palestinian militants from an Al-Qaeda related group on ... read more
October 29, 2010 10:06 AM
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is getting tired of waiting. Abbas said Thursday that the Palestinians would consider asking the U.S. and the UN Security Council to recognize a Palestinian state on the 1967 border in several months' time, if the peace process with Israel fails. Abbas's comments came after his meeting in Ramallah with Egyptian Foreign Minister ... read more
October 20, 2010 11:52 AM
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, 86, has spent the past week in the Middle East, along with a delegation of peace activists known as The Elders, which is led by former Irish President Mary Robinson and former U.N. Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi. Carter continued to publicly call on Israel to lift the international blockade on the Gaza Strip's 1.5 million ... read more
September 30, 2010 1:03 PM
The Obama administration seems to be doing everything in its power to keep the staggering Mideast peace process alive. The U.S.-mediated direct talks, which were launched only four weeks ago, have come to a grinding halt after Prime Minister Netanyahu defied tremendous U.S. pressure to extend a West Bank construction moratorium, which ended September 26. The ... read more
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Mike Tobin
February 16, 2011 9:28 PM
Revolution Reaches Palestinians, Then What?
As the wildfire of revolution and reform spreads through the Arab world, it jumps into the Palestinian territories and has leaders calling to get the long-stalled Palestinian elections back on track. The West Bank government announced over the weekend that a vote would take place by September. The thinking man’s first reaction to that is: Wait a minute. Remember what ... read more