Feeds
A lawyer says Italian authorities are set to expel to Syria one of the Palestinians who hijacked the Achille Lauro cruise ship and killed an American passenger in 1985.
Police say a Jewish man is being held after shooting to death a Palestinian in Jerusalem and wounding a Jewish man.
One of the Palestinians who hijacked the Achille Lauro cruise ship and killed an American passenger in 1985 has been released after more than 23 years in jail, officials said Thursday.
An obscure Palestinian militant group is claiming responsibility for a West Bank attack that killed two Israeli police officers this week. But Israeli and Palestinian security officials are casting doubt on the claim.
No matter who leads Israel's new government, the Israelis will have to commit to a freeze on Jewish settlements in the West Bank before peace talks can resume, Palestinian officials said Tuesday.
Hamas called Thursday for reconciliation with supporters of rival Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas but insisted on pursuing "resistance" against Israel.
Israel began a massive assault on the Gaza Strip on Dec. 27, inflicting scores of casualties over the following days. History provides some clues to what is behind this violence.
Israeli troops have killed a wanted Palestinian militant in the West Bank.
Hamas police prevented Muslim pilgrims from leaving Gaza Sunday for the annual Islamic pilgrimage because of internal Palestinian squabbling, drawing rare rebukes from Arab countries.
Two Israeli border policemen have been convicted of manslaughter after they kidnapped a Palestinian teenager and threw him from a moving jeep during a 2002 rampage through the West Bank city of Hebron.
Italian authorities have ordered a Palestinian man expelled after he served his sentence for taking part in the 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruise ship, which resulted in the murder of an American citizen.
Countries at an international conference Tuesday agreed to commit $242 million to strengthen the Palestinian Authority's police and judicial systems, sending what Germany's foreign minister called a "clear signal of support" for building a Palestinian state.
A Brown University professor said Monday that he is donating his share of a prestigious Israeli mathematics prize to advance the education of Palestinian students.
Palestinian militants say Israeli troops killed a leader of their group during a raid on the West Bank city of Nablus.
Palestinian medics say a Palestinian man was killed by Israeli army fire as he approached Gaza's border fence with Israel.
Looking back to the U.N. partition plan of 1947, which envisaged Jewish and Palestinian states living side by side in peace, Nayef Hawatmeh comes to the painful acknowledgment of an opportunity missed.
Chile has agreed to receive 117 Palestine refugees from Iraq who have spent months living in tents along the desert border with Syria, the government reported Thursday.
Israeli and Palestinian heart surgeons teamed up Wednesday to operate on three young girls from the Gaza Strip under a program to save children's lives despite hostilities between the Hamas-ruled territory and the Jewish state.
A human rights group called for an investigation into the death Thursday of a mentally disabled Palestinian man who had been wounded by the Israelis during a West Bank arrest operation.
Two Palestinians infiltrated a religious seminary and attacked students in a West Bank settlement before being shot dead, while Palestinians killed an Israeli police officer near Jerusalem, officials said.
A rocket fired by Palestinian militants from Gaza wounded a 2-year-old boy in a community on the Gaza-Israel border, Israeli police and rescue services said Sunday.
International assistance to the Palestinians will not be effective unless Israel eases travel restrictions that have stalled some aid projects and sent the costs of others soaring, Oxfam International warned on the eve of a donors' conference.
The backdrop to the latest explosion of violence in the Gaza Strip: skeletons of unfinished apartment towers, shuttered factories, empty store shelves and skyrocketing prices for bread and cigarettes.
An immigration board has dismissed a case against two Palestinian men accused of having terrorist ties in a deportation attempt pursued over two decades by the administrations of four U.S. presidents.
A House committee chairwoman said Friday she is holding up $86 million in U.S. aid for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, at a time when the Bush administration is trying to strengthen him in hopes of enhancing prospects for Mideast peace.
Israeli aircraft strike Gaza targetsIsraeli aircraft attacks two suspected weapons-making factories and a smuggling tunnel in the Gaza Strip in what the military says was retaliation for Palestinian rocket fire.
Fayyad's GambleAccording to the Fayyad Plan, the borders of the new Palestinian state would be based on the June 4th, 1967 borders with Jerusalem as its capital - an action that would not only violate the written undertakings made between Israel and the Bush administration in 2004 concerning pr …
PM's Jewish pitch hits a new low, critics say - thestar.comOTTAWA–Angry Liberals Wednesday accused the Conservative government of reaching a new political low by circulating flyers characterizing the Liberals as anti-Semitic.
Rivalry over hummus: An emotive issue | The EconomistA good-humoured war over food
Palestinians to seek endorsement of statehoodPalestinian officials say they are preparing to ask the United Nations to endorse an independent state without Israel's consent.
American Palestinian Dr Elias Akleh writes on Israel's Piracy, 1967 USS Liberty attack ... Dr Elias Akleh: " In June 8th 1967 during the Six-Day War Israeli planes and torpedo boats attacked the American USS Liberty ship while in international waters with the full knowledge of its identity killing 34 crew members..."
Israel fears justice more than IranIsraeli and US threats against Iran are growing louder. Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon has accused Tehran of conducting insincere negotiations and says his country's the threatened military option is no bluff.
Palestinian January elections cancelled Bowing to the inevitable, electoral officials conceded that presidential and parliamentary polls, meant to take place on Jan 24, could not be held until objections by Hamas, the Islamist group that controls Gaza, are overcome.
Racist Zionist settlers block firefighters attempting to get to a burning Palestinian home"Israeli settlers residing in illegal outposts in the heart of Hebron obstructed the work of Palestinian fire fighters on Wednesday night, as crews attempted to access a burning building owned by a Palestinian family."
U.S. State Department: Israel is not a tolerant society Israel dismally fails the requirements of a tolerant pluralistic society, according to a new report from the U.S. State Department.
Pro-US, pro-Zionist Australia refuses to support Goldstone Report at UN General AssemblyAustralia has voted against the endorsement by the UN General Assembly of the Goldstone Report on Israeli war crimes in Gaza. Jewish South African Richard Goldstone is an eminent human rights lawyer and judge.
UN General Assembly endorses Goldstone Report on Israeli et al Gaza atrocitiesThe UN General Assembly approved on Thursday an Arab-backed resolution endorsing the Goldstone Report. 114 nations voted in favor of the resolution and 18 voted against it, with 44 members abstaining.
Clinton, Arab ministers to discuss Mideast talksSecretary of State Hillary Clinton prepared Monday to consult with Arab foreign ministers on Obama administration efforts to get Israel and the Palestinians to resume peace negotiations.
Ahmadinejad:"Why is the Holocaust used as pretext to occupy the lands of other people?"In this interview with Newsweek Ahmadinejad clearly does not dispute the Jewish Holocaust as part of the 60 million people killed in WW2 but says "Why is the Holocaust used as pretext to occupy the lands of other people?"
BBC NEWS | South Asia | Clinton irked by al-Qaeda 'haven'US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has questioned Pakistan's failure to capture senior al-Qaeda leaders. Mrs Clinton said in an interview with journalists in Lahore she found it "hard to believe" nobody in the government knew where they were.
1st anniversary of the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN) vs ethnic cleansingOn 1st anniversary of the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, IJAN remembers the anniversary of Sabra and Shatila and over 61 years of Palestinian struggle against Zionist ethnic cleansing (Genocide).
Abbas to Obama: I'll quit, there's no chance for peace with Netanyahu Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told U.S. President Barack Obama that he intends to resign his post, Channel 10 television reported on Monday.
BBC NEWS | Middle East | 'We have a right to go to school'Around the world millions of children are not getting a proper education because of poverty or war. In the second report in the BBC's Hunger to Learn series, Katya Adler meets children in Gaza whose schooling has been repeatedly interrupted by conflict.
DAWN.COM | Pakistan | A state of denialThe GHQ attack has drawn accusations from several quarters in Pakistan that it was inspired by foreign powers; some have named India and the US among the usual suspects.
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Turkish TV series angers IsraelIsrael's foreign minister has ordered Turkey's ambassador to be summoned over a Turkish TV series that portrays Israeli soldiers killing children. Avigdor Lieberman said the programme, whose first episode was broadcast on Tuesday, incited hatred against Israel.
Leading anti-racist Jewish writer: Goldstone Report's Clear Findings Of Israeli TerrorismMichael Brull: "Terrorism is a substantive concept. Any definition of this concept must include the intentional use of force against civilians to achieve political goals. This is exactly what the Goldstone report ... Israel is guilty of. "
Turkish PM slams Israel as a 'persecutor'ANKARA (AFP) - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan slammed Israel as a "persecutor" on Saturday in the latest verbal volley since the Gaza offensive raised tensions between the regional allies.
New Yorkers Join Worldwide Protests for Freedom of Activist Opposing Leviev's SettlementsNEW YORK, October 18, 2009 (WAFA)– Forty New York human rights advocates rallied Saturday on a cold fall day at the Madison Avenue jewelry store of Israeli settlement mogul Lev Leviev to demand that Israel release jailed Palestinian boycott activist Mohammad Othman, the Coalit …
Palestinian leader's party: Hope lost in ObamaThe Palestinian president's political party says all hopes in the Obama administration have "evaporated," accusing the White House of caving in to pressure from the pro-Israel lobby.
Al Aqsa closure sparks Palestinian protestsJERUSALEM: Israeli police shut a compound housing Islam's third holiest site on Sunday and fired tear gas towards Palestinian protesters hurling rocks and bottles, Palestinian and Israeli officials said.
Log In | Register
