Islamic Law in Palestine and Israel: A History of the Survival of Tanzimat and Shari a in the British Mandate and the Jewish State (Social, Economic and ... Studies of the Middle East and Asia , No 26)
Friday, November 20, 2009 : Israel is coming under widespread international criticism for its plan to engage in a new round of illegal settlement expansion on occupied Palestinian land. Israel says it will build 900 new housing units in the East Jerusalem settlement of Gilo. Meanwhile, Palestinian Authority leaders began a renewed effort last week to win international support for formal Security Council...
Hamas is negotiating with Israel. This is what Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas confidently said to a BBC -Arabic reporter in an exclusive interview. How...
Austrian Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger voiced his support Thursday to the two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflicts -- a Palestinian state to live in peace with a secure Israel. Spindelegger met in Vienna with Hanan Ashrawi, a Palestinian parliamentarian and a central figure in the struggle for the establishment of a democratic Palestinian state. "We continue to make our...
Mahmoud Abbas was interviewed in Arabic by the BBC last night, and he proved yet again that the oft-used appellation "moderate" is a misnomer. The Israeli press is reporting on some of his more outrageous statements. "Those who have to resist are the people, and there are different types of resistance, like in (West Bank villages of) Bilin and Naalin, where people are injured every day"...
Al-Qaeda Somalia Abroad: A Threat to Israel and the U.S. PJM Earlier this month al-Shabaab, al-Qaeda’s dangerous Somalian proxy, threatened to attack Israel. “The Jews started to destroy parts of the holy mosque of al-Aqsa and they routinely kill our Palestinian brothers, so we are committed to defend our Palestinian brothers,” an al-Shabaab commander named Mukhtar Robow Abu Mansur...
C4's Dispatches has been branded 'antisemitic', but surely Britain's Jewish community can cope with reasoned scrutiny? The serious charges levelled by critics at the Dispatches documentary investigating the UK pro-Israel lobby amount to accusations of gross irresponsibility, or worse. But who is being irresponsible here? Those who say the film will lead to increased antisemitism , displays "1930s...
You'll recall the recent Roger Cohen op-ed I deconstructed ? Here are the letters-to-the-editor:- Dimming Prospects for Mideast Peace? Published: November 19, 2009 To the Editor: “A Mideast Truce,” by Roger Cohen (column, The New York Times on the Web, Nov. 17), could leave readers with the impression that the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, is a supporter of peace and the Israeli...
Recognition of human rights expert Richard Goldston's investigation is essential to the peace process in Israel and Palestine -- and the Congress is trying to demonize it.
“Apartheid” is a word bomb akin to “lynching” or “untouchables.” It explodes upon the page, ripping the scabs off the wounds of state-enforced segregation in South Africa, a system that ended only in... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...
Israel agreed to allow Gaza farmers to export flowers to Europe through its commercial crossing points with the blockaded Gaza Strip, Palestinian and Israeli sources said Thursday. Israeli authorities have told Palestinian farmers union that Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak agreed to allow flower growers to ship their plants, according to Mahmoud Khalil, head of Gaza flowers and strawberry producers...
A look inside Hebron, the largest City in Palestine’s West Bank, and a glimpse of Israel’s horrific policy of apartheid, from CommonDreams. The word “Revenge” is scrawled in Hebrew on a Palestinian school in Hebron. The windows are covered with screens and the play yard obstructed with more screens tipped with barbed wire, to obstruct the [...]
Israeli Occupation Forces have escalated their systematic campaign against Palestinian civilian construction activities... Areas classified as Areas C in the West Bank are currently subjected to... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...
Tonight, Dr. Richard Landes spoke at Rutgers University. He is the author of The Augean Stables blog, The Second Draft blog documenting media manipulation by Palestinian Arabs and their supporters, and the driving force behind the Understanding the Goldstone Report blog. Somehow, he also manages to be a professor of history at Boston University and the author of numerous books and articles on topics...
Norwegian finance ministers do not normally have the tools or the temperament to provoke fury among Israeli leaders and jubilation among Palestinian activists. Yet...
Resistance will continue: Hamas political chief Khaled Meshaal vows of planning a new political initiative that would discard vain negotiations and instead adopt resistance to redress Palestinian rights. “Not much hope could be upheld for a future Palestinian state as long as the Zionist occupation persists; Israel pushes ahead with plans to build more homes for Jewish [...]
Following World War II, the British withdrew from their mandate of Palestine, and the UN partitioned the area into Arab and Jewish states, an arrangement rejected by the Arabs. Israel, Government, Economy http://www.1-language.com/worldfactbook2002/print/is.html
The Middle East Telecom Statistics and Forecast report will provide you with a whole range of statistics, forecasts and graphs for the years, crucial to your competitive and strategic analysis and planning. The report also includes broadband statistics and forecasts as well as actuals up to 3Q 2008. You can also purchase a 1-year subscription, providing you with quarterly updates. This new report includes...
"Right now, the Obama Administration is the strongest, if you will, and the greatest adversary that Israel has." Jay Shapiro Show - 12 July 09 'The Real US-Israel Relationship' - Israel National Radio Increasingly, it is becoming apparent that the US President, Barack Hussein Obama no longer has any apprehension in hiding the fact that he is not a friend of Israel. Monday's meeting with "Top Jewish...
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