Added on 27/12/2011
Jonathan Cook
Ankara , Benjamin Netanyahu , Cairo , Egypt , Ehud Barak , Fatah , Gaza , Golan Heights , Hamas , International Criminal Court , Iran , Israel , Jerusalem , Lebanon , Mahmoud Abbas , Middle East , Mossad , Oslo , Palestine , Palestine Liberation Organization , Palestinian Authority , Palestinian national movement , Pennsylvania , President , Prime Minister , Recep Erdogan , Saudi Arabia , Saudi intelligence , Security Council , Sinai , Syria , The New York Times , tremors , Tunisia , Turkey , Turki al-Faisal , United Nations , United States , Washington , West Bank
JONATHAN COOK: 2011 marked the point at which the Palestinians called Israel’s bluff and revealed Oslo to be nothing more than a stalling tactic. What does the upcoming year hold?
Added on 17/12/2011
mai abdul rahman
Congress , DC , Funding , Israel , Israeli government , Jerusalem , Maryland , President , United States , Virginia , Washington , Washington Metro , West Bank
MAI ABDUL RAHMAN: In the past, anyone who dared question military support for Israel would have been taken to task, labeled anti Semitic…
Added on 17/12/2011
Kim Willis
European Union , Gaza , Israel , Israeli Committee against House Demolitions , Jerusalem , Palestine , Palestinian Territories , Tourism , West Bank
KIM WILLIS: Through the tours visitors see the reality of life in the West Bank and Israel, uncoloured by any ‘perspective’; they can make up their own minds about the issues.
Added on 12/12/2011
Mondoweiss
Activist , Barcelona , Israel , Israeli army , Jerusalem , Mahmoud Abbas , Palestine , Palestinian Territories , Ramadan , Ramallah , Tear gas , United Nations , West Bank
ALEX KANE, MONDOWEISS: The killing of Mustafa Tamimi by IDF troops has shocked ‘the unshockable’ population of Palestine, as well as the wider world at large.
Added on 07/12/2011
Steve Royston
Abbas , Anglican Church , Canada , Church of the Nativity , Egypt , Germany , Haifa , Israel , Jerusalem , Jordan , Lebanon , Levant , Middle East , Nablus , Netanyahu , Palestinian Territories , President , Prime Minister , Syria , United Nations , West Bank , World Council of Churches
STEVE ROYSTON: The diversity of faiths, races and cultures in the Levant is one of its great strengths but this diversity is under threat.
Added on 06/12/2011
SuhaibWebb
Christmas , Gaza , Gaza Strip , Hebrew University , Hebrew University in Jerusalem , Israel , Jennifer Loewenstein , Jerusalem , Martin Luther King Jr. , Palestine , Palestinian Territories , tour guide
SUHAIBWEBB, YASMINE MOGAHEAD: Listening to the wailing she watched as workers laid out the bodies, corpses loaded onto the back of a truck.
Added on 18/11/2011
Steve Royston
Bethlehem , Civil Administration , David Cameron , IDF , Israel , Jerusalem , metal detectors , Palestinian Territories , Prime Minister , United Kingdom , West Bank
STEVE ROYSTON: Israel will not allow Palestinian men to enter until they are 28, although another told us the age was 32, which is possible as the rules are constantly changing.
Added on 13/11/2011
Steve Royston
Al Aqsa Mosque , Catholic Church , Christian Arab , Church of the Holy Sepulchre , Church of the Nativity , Constantine , Dome of the Rock , Energy , Facebook , Gaza , Haifa , Herod’s Temple , Intel , Islamic Jihad , Israel , Istanbul , Jerusalem , Microsoft , Olive oil , Palestinian Territories , Photos , Robert Maxwell , security guard , Sofia , Temple Mount , United Kingdom , Uzi , Western Wall , Yasser Arafat
STEVE ROYSTON: “When we enter Jerusalem, you will be surrounded by people who will try to take your money. I know these people…”
Added on 10/10/2011
Jonathan Cook
Al Akhbar , Ali Khamenei , Avigdor Lieberman , Barack Obama , Benjamin Netanyahu , Camp David , Egypt , Ehud Olmert , European Union , George Bush , Israel , Israeli parliament , Jerusalem , Jordan , Madrid , Mahmoud Abbas , Oslo , Palestine , President , Prime Minister , Religious law , Reuters , Russia , Security Council , Spain , The Jerusalem Post , The New York Times , United Nations , United States , US administration , Washington , West Bank , White House
JONATHAN COOK: The demand has risen to the top of the Israeli agenda and if accepted will condemn Palestinians as ‘historic interlopers and trespassers’.
Added on 05/10/2011
mai abdul rahman
George Mitchell , Israel , Jerusalem , Joe Biden , lead broker , Middle East , Obama , Palestine , Palestinian UN , President , prime minster , The Green Line , United Nations , United States , US administration , West Bank
MAI ABDUL RAHMAN: There appears to be increasing public support for Palestinian statehood in the U.S. Does the ‘internationalising’ of the issue mean that US politicians will be free of the Israeli yoke?
Added on 30/09/2011
Ramzy Baroud
Egypt , Gaza , Hamas , IDF , Israel , Israeli Air Force , Israeli army , Jerusalem , Media coverage , New York Times , news networks , Palestine , Tel Aviv , The Telegraph , United Nations
RAMZY BAROUD: An unmanned Israeli drone fired a missile at Ibrahim Zaza. For thirty days, against all odds, he survived.
Added on 22/09/2011
Common Ground News Service
Energy , Jerusalem , Nablus , Oslo , Palestine , Women , Women's issues
NORA MURAD, CGNEWS: How do you encourage women afflicted by a ‘can’t do’ mentality to build a park? By challenging them with one simple word: ‘Dream’
Added on 17/09/2011
Mondoweiss
Abbas , Benjamin Netanyahu , Bibi , Catherine Ashton , David Hale , Dennis Ross , Envoy , European Union , International Criminal Court , Israel , Jerusalem , New York city , Palestine , Palestinian Authority , Palestinian Territories , Palestinian UN , Prime Minister , Tony Blair , United Nations , United States
IRA GLUNTS, MONDOWEISS: Bibi is willing to negotiate anything, as long it does not include what the Palestinians want. In this case, it is recognition of a Palestinian state by the UN.
Added on 15/09/2011
Tabsir
Arab Spring , Bernard Lewis , Democracy , Edward Said , Egypt , Egypt Protests , Europe , Jerusalem , Libya , Middle East , Syria , The Jerusalem Post , Tunisia , Women , Yemen
DANIEL M. VARISCO: Here we go again. ‘Orientalist Historian Takes Warped Freudian View of Entire Arab population.’ Hmm, what about all those women who were in Tahrir Square?
Added on 08/09/2011
Ramzy Baroud
Abbas , Barack Obama , Congress , Geneva , Ileana Ros-Lehtinen , Iran , Irving Moskowitz , Israel , Jerusalem , John Bolton , Libya , Palestine , Palestinian Authority , Palestinian Territories , President , The Huffington Post , The Jerusalem Post , The Washington Post , UN Human Rights Council , United Nations , United States , US government , Western European
RAMZY BAROUD: It seems that there is nothing that Ileana Ros-Lehtinen will not do or say to support Israeli interests.
Added on 04/09/2011
mai abdul rahman
Christians , Civil society , Department of State , Envoy , Gaza , George Mitchell , International Court of Justice , Israel , Israeli government , Jerusalem , lead broker , legitimate tool , Middle East , Obama , Palestine , Palestinian Authority , Palestinian Territories , political tools , President , South Africa , U.S. Congress , United Nations , United States , West Bank , White House
MAI ABDUL RAHMAN: The consistent failure of American intervention to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli issue has led Palestinians to take matters into their own hands. This strategy is paying off.
Added on 14/08/2011
Steve Royston
Baghdad , Cairo , Church of the Holy Sepulchre , Herod’s Temple , Israel , Istanbul , Jerusalem , London , Middle East , Palestine , political solutions , Riyadh , Rome , Simon Sebag Montefiore , United Kingdom , Winston Churchill
STEVE ROYSTON: It’s a city that is sacred to Muslims, Christians and Jews but it appears to have attracted its fair share of ‘complicated characters’ in its rich past.
Added on 10/08/2011
Common Ground News Service
Aziz Abu Sarah , Center for World Religions , Columbia University , Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution , George Mason University , Israel , Jerusalem , Nelson Mandela , Palestine , Palestinian Authority , Palestinian Territories , Peace , President , Rabbi , South Africa , Tel Aviv , United Nations , West Bank
ROI BEN-YEHUDA, AZIZ ABU SARAH, CGNEWS: Are you pro-solution or pro-conflict? Pro-solution Palestinians and Israelis launch a new movement.
Added on 05/08/2011
Common Ground News Service
Civil society , Hebron , Israel , Jerusalem , Journalist , Ministry of Education , Palestine , settlement products , Tel Aviv , West Bank
MAIRAV ZONSZEIN, CGNEWS: The recently passed Anti-Boycott law effectively erases the distinction between Israel and the Occupied Territories.
Added on 25/07/2011
Common Ground News Service
Cordoba , Germany , Islam , Israel , Jerusalem , Mediterranean , Morocco , New York , Osama Bin Laden , Spain , United States
LEWIS GROPP, CGNEWS: A recently released documentary highlights much that was little known about Muslim Spain. Its two ‘stars’ are a couple of Islamic and Jewish philosophers.