Israel to release 250 Palestinian prisoners

TEL AVIV: The Israeli cabinet on Sunday approved the release of 250 Palestinian prisoners as a goodwill gesture to Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas amid persistent violence around the Hamas-ruled Gaza StripThe move followed a pledge by acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert...

Israeli Gen. on Future of the Two State Solution

Giora Eiland, former chair of Israel's National Security Council on the Future of the 2 State Solution

Gaza: A Dire life Zone Still Clings to Hope

Following Israeli raids that killed around 15 Palestinians within one week, many rockets were fired into Israel in a reprisal of Israeli’s provocation. As usual Israel started to blame Palestinians despite it was...

Abbas threatens early elections

While Israel continues its blockade on Gaza strip despite International calls to end it, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas threatens with early elections if talks between rival Hamas and Fatah do not...

The Famine just started in Gaza, Palestine

As usual Israel started to blame Palestinians despite it was the one who initiated with violence again. The Israeli assault was an obvious breach of an agreed calm held with Palestinian fighting groups 5 months ago....

Israel Abducts International Observers

Three International Human Rights Observers, a British national, an Italian and an American along with 14 Palestinian fishermen were illegally abducted this morning in Gazan coastal waters, and are being held...

Peaceful Rally in Iraq?

Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) - Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called for a massive prayer service and a peaceful demonstration in Baghdad next Friday against the US led presence in Iraq.  Could this be the start of...

UN on Gaza: "People are going to start getting hungry"

Gaza – Ma’an – The situation in the Gaza Strip is shifting from “collective punishment to genocide,” said Jamal Al-Khudari, member of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) and head of the popular committee against the siege in Gaza.The trickle of humanitarian...

UN Suspends Food Aid as Rockets Strike Israeli City

The UN has suspended the distribution of food rations to half of Gaza's population after Israel refused to reopen Gaza Crossings. The suspension comes a warning by the relief group based out of the United Nations who stated they would be running out of food on Friday. UN...

Israel: Secular Nir Barkat wins Jerusalem mayor race

" Nir Barkat:  "There is room in Jerusalem for everyone," he said, adding "if there's not room for everyone, then there's not room for anyone." Being mayor of Jerusalem will be hard, said Barkat, but promised to...

The secret Downing Street memo

"Written by www.daily.pk    Monday, 10 November 2008 22:35 SECRET AND STRICTLY PERSONAL - UK EYES ONLY DAVID MANNING From: Matthew RycroftDate: 23 July 2002S 195 /02cc: Defence Secretary, Foreign Secretary, Attorney-General, Sir Richard Wilson,...

The Middle East and Barack Obama.

We know it. Barack Obama knows that we know it. And he knows it too! The key to sorting out the conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Ethiopia can be summed up in one word: Palestine Obama has just a...

A ‘different approach’

"Even though the financial crisis, which he pledged on Friday to tackle ‘head on’, is his first priority, Barack Obama has no choice but to clear the foreign policy mess being left behind by the Republican administration. At his first news conference as president-elect,...

How do Arabs view Barack Obama’s choice for chief of staff

"Written by www.daily.pk    Friday, 07 November 2008 18:30 "There could not be a more provocative appointment than Rahm Emanuel, if he wanted to send a signal that he is going to stick by a quite hard-line pro-Israel policy..." A day after his...

A voice From Gaza: Let's vote for Obama

www.Gazatoday.blogspot.com We, Palestinians, are aspiring to any glimpse of hope to establishing our promising country of Palestine. Originally, that glimpse of hope grew when Israelis realized in the nineties that...

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