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E - Editors Weblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Palestinian-Israeli media's objectivity and editorial quality is questioned and discussed in an article by YNet News. Ruham Nimri, the coordinator of the media-monitoring sector at Palestine's Miftah organization, goes as far as to state that Arabic-language newspapers based outside...
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Daled Amos (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Though facing uncertainty now--historically, JNF has been a successful part of the lives of American Jews from the very beginning, according to an article by David Feith in the Wall Street Journal:JNF was founded in 1901 to buy and develop land in Turkish- (later British-) controlled Palestine, as a step toward the establishment of a Jewish state. Soon after incorporating in the U.S. in 1926, JNF
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Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 21 hours ago
As US presidential hopeful Barack Obama wraps up a tour of Israel and Palestine, newspaper headlines all over the world are fixated on the Senator's attention to Israel...and lack of attention to Palestine's struggle.
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Just World News (Free subscription) | yesterday
During his time in Israel/Palestine, Obama made two important statements. On Israeli-Palestinian diplomacy he reaffirmed his longer-standing pledge to "make progress on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict a key diplomatic priority" when...
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Dhimmi Watch (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Palestinian-Israeli question has been a thorn in the world's side for some time now. And clearly, many peoplenot just Arabssympathize with the uprooted Palestinians. The argument, in a nutshell, is that Israel was forcefully and artificially created and populated...
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Israelated - English Israel blogs (Free subscription) | yesterday
Ynetnews reports on a new “laptop for every palestinian child” project: An American organization has requested Israel’s assistance in a new initiative similar to the Israeli “computer for every child” project. The American Task Force on Palestine (ATFP), an organization committed to the welfare of the Palestinian people, asked that the State help transfer around 1,000 laptop computers to the West Bank...
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English Webster (Free subscription) | yesterday
The satirical newspaper The Onion is taking another jab at the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In its latest issue, The Onion has a story titled: "Israel-Palestine now fighting over cemetery space." "After decades of bitter conflict and the loss of thousands of innocent lives," the story begins, "Israeli and Palestinian forces clashed once again this week, with each side laying claim to a five-mile stretch...
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New Statesman (Free subscription) | yesterday
Observations on Palestine Eight tankers are parked on the rough ground at the filling point. The drivers look anxiously at a metal box attached to a large water-pipe that carries a trickle of water into the nearest tanker. Dr Hassan of the Palestinian Hydrology Group explains: "They are looking at the pressure gauge. Pressure is very low and the drivers are worried. No water deliveries, no pay." This...
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Daled Amos (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Last month, Lenny Ben-David did a piece for the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (not currently working, but check here) entitled On the 40th Anniversary of His Assassination: Robert Kennedy's 1948 Reports from Palestine. Now Ben-David has dedicated a blog to examining these reports: Robert Kennedy and Israel. These articles by Robert F. Kennedy were published in the Boston Post after his
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Third Party Watch (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
“Why is it important to have Ralph Nader on the ballot in November?” asked the Nader campaign as Barack Obama prepared to visit Israel. Because “without him, the plight of the Palestinian people will not be an issue in this year’s election.” The Nader campaign asserts that “Obama/McCain stand with the militaristic right wing AIPAC [...]
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patrickguillard | 07/16/2008
The European Commissioner for Education, Training, Culture and Youth, Ján Figel', today opened a National Tempus Office in Israel and reopened one in the occupied Palestinian territory
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allpeopleunite | 02/02/2008
One finds the recent difficulties the United Nations has had in its deliberations over the recent flair up in hostilities between the Israeli army and the Hamas-led Gaza strip, with discussions stifled by various players who believe that their interests are being hurt (which may very well be the case). No one is right, and no one is wrong, because these two concepts are mutually exclusive, and in...
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raimondo | 01/13/2008
Israel: Bush says US should have "bombed" Auschwitz Jerusalem, 11 Jan. (AKI) - US President George W. Bush ended his two-day visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories on Friday with a trip to Jerusalem's official Holocaust memorial, Yad Vashem. According to The Jerusalem Post's online edition, Bush told the memorial's director, Avner Shalev, he regretted that the US had failed to bomb the famous