Added on 17/07/2011
Common Ground News Service
Ben Gurion , Ben-Gurion airport , Israel , Jerusalem , Palestine , Palestinian Territories , Tel Aviv , West Bank
R. TAYLOR, MONDOWEISS: One woman’s story of her treatment at the hands of the Israeli authorities serves as a parable for how the country can turn its friends against it.
Added on 16/07/2011
Ramzy Baroud
Amazon.com , Benjamin Netanyahu , Cairo , Egypt , European Union , Fatah , Gaza , Ha , Hamas , internationally-syndicated columnist and the editor , Israel , Israeli army , Jerusalem , London , Maan News Agency , Mahmoud Abbas , Palestine , Palestine Liberation Organization , PalestineChronicle.com , Palestinian Authority , Palestinian government , Palestinian Territories , Pennsylvania , Pluto Press , President , Prime Minister , the Associated Press , The Jerusalem Post , United Nations , United States , US House of Representatives , West Bank , www.ramzybaroud.net , Yasser Abed Rabbo
RAMZY BAROUD: With a deficit standing at around $640 million, the PA government is experiencing one of its worst ever financial crises.
Added on 13/07/2011
Common Ground News Service
Gaza , Hebrew University of Jerusalem , Israel , Jerusalem , long-term solution , Media pundits , Middle East , Palestine , Palestinian Territories , President , Social Media , Watan Student Movement
ZIAD KHALIL ABU ZAYYAD, CGNEWS: I felt the need to do something that could contribute more substantially to end the suffering of my people and reach peace with our neighbours.
Added on 19/06/2011
Common Ground News Service
Ben Gurion , Bill Clinton , Bush Administration , Europe , General Assembly , Israel , Israeli government , Jerusalem , Maryland , Middle East , Netanyahu government , Obama administration , Palestine , Palestinian Territories , President , Security Council , UN General Assembly , UN Security Council , United Nations , United States , University of Maryland
JEROME M. SEGAL, CGNEWS: The ‘internationalising’ of the Palestinian issue has potentially profound consequences for Israel.
Added on 11/06/2011
Tabsir
Actor , Afghanistan , America , Barack Obama , Binyamin Netanyahu , Central Intelligence Agency , Congress , Egypt , Fatah , Federal Bureau of Investigation , Hamas , Hizballah , IPad , iPhone , Iran , Iraq , Israel , Jerusalem , Libya , Middle East , Mossad , oil prices , Palestine , Palestinian Territories , Shin Bet , United States , West Bank , White House
LEONAR NIMOY, TABSIR: There is a viable plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It’s the ‘two-state’ solution and its application is, how should I put it, simply logical.
Added on 31/05/2011
Common Ground News Service
Gaza , Haifa , Israel , Jerusalem , Journalist , Palestine , policeman , West Bank
RUTH EGLASH, CGNEWS: It’s become an instant sensation across the Arab world so it was time, in spite of my concerns, to experience ‘New Star’ first hand.
Added on 30/05/2011
Mondoweiss
Ben Gurion University , central Israel , Ehud Olmert , Europe , Gaza , Israel , Jerusalem , Massachusetts , New York , Obama , Palestine , West Bank
PHILIP WEISS, MONDOWEISS: The premise of conducting a swap is, I believe, that you have something of equal value for the other party. Tell that to Israel.
Added on 21/05/2011
Michael J. Totten
activist and journalist , Aleppo , Bashar al-Assad , Beirut , Damascus , guard , Iran , Israel , Jerusalem , Lebanon , Libya , Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , Middle East , Prime Minister , Rafik Hariri , Security services , Syria
MICHAEL TOTTEN: There have, according to Bashar Assad, been some ‘mistakes’. The only real mistake by Western powers however is to believe what the President tells them.
Added on 21/05/2011
Ramzy Baroud
Binyamin Netanyahu , Cairo , Fatah , George Mitchell , Hamas , Israel , Jerusalem , Khaled Meshaal , Middle East , Minister of Justice , Netanyahu’s government , Obama administration , Palestine , Palestinian Territories , Prime Minister , Tel Aviv , The Guardian , Tzipi Livni , United Nations , United States , Washington , West Bank
RAMZY BAROUD: The newly unified Palestinian leadership faces a very rough few months in the lead-up to the key United Nations vote in September.
Added on 07/05/2011
Jonathan Cook
Bar Ilan University , Ben Gurion University , Benjamin Netanyahu , Cairo , Egypt , Egyptian government , Facebook , Fatah , foreign ministry official , Gaza , Hamas , Hosni Mubarak , Iran , Israel , Israel Radio , Israeli embassy , Jerusalem , Mahmoud Abbas , Menachem Klein , Middle East , Natural gas , Palestine , Palestinian Authority , Pew Research Centre , politics professor , President , Prime Minister , Reuters , Social Media , special adviser , Syria , Tehran , The Jerusalem Post , The National , The New York Times , The Wall Street Journal , United Arab Emirates , United Nations , United States , unnamed official , Washington , West Bank
JONATHAN COOK: The political sands are shifting a little too quickly in the Middle East for Israel and the United States. Will they be able to keep up?
Added on 07/05/2011
Common Ground News Service
America , Amnon Lipkin-Shahak , Barack Obama , Congress , East Africa , Fatah , Gaza , Hamas , Hillary Clinton , Israel , Israeli army , Jerusalem , Labour Party , Mahmoud Abbas , Middle East , Mossad , Netanyahu , North Africa , Palestine , Palestinian Authority , President , Prime Minister , Qatar , Rabin , Secretary of State , Shin Bet , The New York Times , UN General Assembly , United States , West Bank
MICHAEL FELSEN, CGNEWS: The Israeli Peace Initiative which was unveiled in April has an ambitious goal, namely the resolution of all claims.
Added on 02/05/2011
Juan Cole
Afghanistan , Al Qaeda , Al-Ahram Center , Army , Asaf Ali Zardari , Ayman al-Zawahiri , Barack Obama , Bush , Bush Administration , Central America , Central Intelligence Agency , CNN , Congress , Department of State , Dick Cheney , Dome of the Rock , Dwight Eisenhower , Egypt , Egyptian military , Fahd , France , fundraiser , Gaza Strip , Inter-Services Intelligence , Iran , Iraq , Israel , Jeddah , Jerusalem , Joe Biden , Kabul , Kuwait , Leonid Brezhnev , Libya , Middle East , Obama , Osama Bin Laden , Pakistan , Pakistani intelligence , Palestinian Territories , Pentagon , Peshawar , President , Prime Minister , Ronald Reagan , Saddam Hussein , Saudi Arabia , Soviet Union , Sudan , Syria , Taliban , Tunisia , UN Security Council , United Kingdom , United Nations , United States , US government , USG , Washington , West Bank , White House
JUAN COLE: Post Osama, President Obama should do us all a favour and now remove U.S. troops from Iraq.
Added on 02/05/2011
Lauren
Easter , Facebook , IDF , Israel , Israeli government , Israeli military , Jerusalem , Mobile Phones , Palestine , Palestinian Authority , Palestinian Territories , Passover , Qalandiya checkpoint , Ramallah , Red Crescent , the Palestine Chronicle , United Kingdom , West Bank
LAUREN: “Tourists will see, firsthand, what Israel does not want internationals to see: the humiliation and degradation that takes place at checkpoints. They will be treated as animals as well…”
Added on 29/04/2011
Omar al-Issawi
Amman , Benjamin Netanyahu , Cairo , Damascus , Democratic Front , Doha , Egypt , Fatah , Food and Drink , Gaza , Hamas , Hosni Mubarak , Israel , Jerusalem , Jordan , Muslim Brotherhood , Palestine , Palestinian Authority , Palestinian Territories , Pennsylvania , President , Prime Minister , Qatar , Syria
OMAR AL ISSAWI: That the PA recognizes Israel will not have escaped the attention of either Netanyahu, or for that matter Hamas.
Added on 27/04/2011
Common Ground News Service
Israel , Jerusalem , Palestine , Temple Mount
YONATHAN MIZRACHI, CGNEWS: Palestinians living close to the ‘City of David’ archaeological site, where the city of Jerusalem first emerged, have found their antecedents are being excluded.
Added on 23/04/2011
Ramzy Baroud
Activist , BBC , Benjamin Netanyahu , Daniel Pipes , Egypt , European Union , Food and Drink , Gaza , Hamas , International Solidarity Movement , Israel , James Miller , Jerusalem , Journalist , Juliano Mer Khamis , New York Times , Palestine , Palestinian Territories , Prime Minister , Rachel Corrie , Rome , Tom Hurndall , United States , Vittorio Arrigoni
RAMZY BAROUD: Grief and despair have been the overwhelming emotions felt by those who knew Vik Arrigoni. He has, however, left us an enduring message.
Added on 14/04/2011
Jonathan Cook
Amos Oz , Association of Civil Rights in Israel , Columbia University , Gaza , Human rights , Ian McEwan , Israel , Israeli government , Jerusalem , Jimmy Carter , Kofi Annan , Middle East , Novelist , Oslo , Palestine , Prime Minister , Rabin , Reuters , Simon Sebag Montefiore , Supreme Court , The National , Tony Blair , United Arab Emirates , United States , West Bank , White House , Yasser Arafat
JONATHAN COOK: “There is clearly a policy to push Palestinians out of Jerusalem to reduce what is called here the Palestinian demographic threat…”
Added on 10/03/2011
Ramzy Baroud
Amazon.com , Arabs , Baghdad , Basra , British government , Civil society , Egypt , Facebook , Gaza , George W. Bush , internationally-syndicated columnist and the editor , Iraq , Jerusalem , Kirkuk , Libya , London , Middle East , Mosul , PalestineChronicle.com , Palestinian Territories , Pluto Press , Tunisia , Twitter , United Kingdom , United States , www.ramzybaroud.net
RAMZY BAROUD: Arabs are ripping up the humiliating caricatures of the region imposed by the West, as they tear down authoritarian regimes, and begin to build truly civilized, and free societies.
Added on 05/03/2011
Ramzy Baroud
Avigdor Lieberman , Benjamin Netanyahu , Chris McGreal , Egypt , Gaza , Haaretz , Hamas , Hizballah , Iran , Israel , Israeli army , Israeli military , Jerusalem , Middle East , Moammar Gadhafi , Prime Minister , Propoganda , Silvan Shalom , Tehran , Tel Aviv , The Guardian , Tunisia , United Nations
RAMZY BAROUD: The Arab people who have taken to the streets to demand democracy are not playing to Israeli caricatures.
Added on 23/02/2011
Mondoweiss
Avigdor Lieberman , Bahrain , Benjamin Netanyahu , Department of State , Egypt , Ehud Barak , Ethan Bronner , Hosni Mubarak , Iran , Iraq , Israel , Israeli Defense Ministry , Jerusalem , Jordan , New York Times , Obama administration , P. J. Crowley , President , Prime Minister , Senate , Suez , Suez Canal , Syria , The Wall Street Journal , Tunisia , UN Security Council , United Nations , United States , United States Navy , Washington
ALI GHARIB, MONDOWEISS: Two Iranian warships pass through the Suez Canal and the Israelis howl in protest. The U.S administration quickly falls into line…
