Palestine

<!-- End #wrapmain #pri.article.articleTitle --> UNRWA Balata Refugee Camp, 2003. <!-- End #wrapmain #pri.article.articleTitle --> . While the world's headlines focus with exaggerated alarm on Israel's lifting of its ten-month building freeze within Jewish West Bank settlements, an issue of...

Israel could be facing a multifront conflict with united armed groups in the West Bank and Gaza Strip should its new hard-line government continue on the path of “provocation,” Palestinian analysts are warning. Click here...

http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=2&x_outlet=118&x_article=2474 The Washington Jewish Week featured J Street, the self-described “pro-Israel, pro-peace” lobby in page one articles twice in April, published J Street opinion columns once that month and again in the May 16 edition,...

The spokesman for the mainstream organization of the PLO, the Fateh, confirmed that the Fateh indeed takes responsibility for last week's murder of Tel Aviv District Court Judge Adi Azar, the same judge who...

First Israeli peace group to call for sanctions, and the first Israeli group to support the divestment campaign against Israel. The question remains: Should legal action be brought against the ICHAD organization? Should...

I recently had my second opportunity in Sderot to host a group from the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI). EAPPI is a program supported and funded by the Geneva-based World Council...

On May 12, 1948, Clark Clifford, the White House chief counsel, presented the case for U.S. recognition of the state of Israel to the divided cabinet of President Harry Truman. While a glowering George...

Have you taken notice of the reports prepared by the Central Control Commission regarding the spread of huge corruption within the lobbies of the Palestinian Authority? If your answer is in the affirmative,...

Five years and three weeks ago, Bush delivered his first two-state speech, envisioning "two states living side by side in peace." A year and a half before his term ends, the American president...

http://www.nysun.com/foreign/showdown-brews-between-obama-congress-over/87849/ A showdown is brewing in Washington over how the number of Palestinian Arab refugees is being counted, and it could be explosive. This is because numerical accuracy would undermine claims by the Palestinians that...