How Israel’s Lawyers Stopped the Second Flotilla

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/Israeli+ lawyers+stopped+second+flotilla/5076493/story.html Israel has deployed a powerful new strategy against the latest wouldbe Gaza flotilla activists: Bore them to death. For three weeks, the activists aboard the lead flotilla boat, an old freighter renamed the “Tahrir,” have...

Youth Movements, NGOs Decry Failure to Reconcile

http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=16765 RAMALLAH, July 20, 2011 (WAFA) - Palestinian youth movements and over 100 non-governmental organizations Wednesday threatened to return to the streets of the West Bank and Gaza Strip if the Palestinian Authority and Hamas...

Why Do Palestinians Bite the Hand That Feeds Them?

http://www.hudson-ny.org/2277/palestinians-unrwa For the past six decades, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for has been helping hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and a number of Arab...

House bill to limit aid to Pakistan, Palestinians

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ ALeqM5gOOsa8xiLe4lkrRBx-PaLIxBRlag?docId=917c0124ea784871b5d488fd870a385b WASHINGTON (AP) - A House panel unveiled a bill Monday that would block U.S. aid to Pakistan, Egypt, Lebanon and the Palestinian Authority unless the Obama administration reassures Congress that they are cooperating in...

The Middle East Turmoil: Its Impact on Arab-Israeli Peace Prospects *

It all started just five months ago, on Dec. 17, 2010, when Mohamed Bouazizi, a young Tunisian fruit peddler in Sidi Bouzidi, south of the Tunisian capital, set himself ablaze after the police seized...

The “right of return”, which is euphemism for destroying Israel, is taught as an...

http://www.badil.org/en/al-majdal/item/1270-reflections-on-the-badil-%E2%80%9Cpalestinian-refugees-under-international-law%E2%80%9D-course?tmpl=component&print=1 Students of the Badil course organized an open-air exhibit at al-Quds University titled "The Right of Return: Not for Sale" (22-23 March 2009) <!-- Image credits -->Badil Intent on introducing Palestine's future legal cadre to a rights-based...

Inside A Congressional Hearing: Promoting Peace? Reexamining U.S. Aid to the Palestinian Authority

ISRAEL RESOURCE NEWS AGENCY DISPATCHED A REPORTER TO COVER THE SPECIAL MEETING OF THE US HOUSE SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE MIDDLE EAST AND SOUTH ASIA THAT CONVENED IN SPECIAL SESSION TO DISCUSS U.S. FUNDING OF...

U.S. aid to Palestinians in jeopardy over Hamas link

http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20110712/NEWS02/707129860 American aid to the Palestinians is in jeopardy over their ties to the terrorist group Hamas, unwillingness to restart negotiations with Israel and push for statehood at the United Nations over U.S. resistance, congressional...

Can we afford to pour more money down the Palestinian drain?

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/07/can_we_afford_ to_pour_more_money_down_the_palestinian_drain.html Dan Greenfield recently reported that the Palestinian Authority is facing another budget crisis and requesting additional funding from the West. Before we take out our overdrawn checkbooks, it might be time to look at...

Embracing the Land

http://www.uruknet.info/?colonna=m&p=79482&l=x&size=1&hd=0 Every morning he wakes up, prays, prepares tea, carries the old tea pot and a small glass and goes to check on his trees and plants. He wanders between the loquat tree and the...