Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Jillian Kestler-D’Amours EAST JERUSALEM, Jul 12, 2011 (IPS) – Widespread strikes across Palestinian civil society could be in store for East Jerusalem at the start of the next school year, as the municipality moves ahead with its current plan to implement an Israeli curriculum in Palestinian schools. [...]
MIDEAST: ‘Flytilla’ Debacle Another PR Nightmare For Israel
July 10, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Mel Frykberg BEN GURION AIRPORT, Tel Aviv, Jul 10, 2011 (IPS) – Confused foreign tourists arriving at Israel’s Ben Gurion International Airport on Friday would be forgiven for thinking that a terrorist attack was about to take place. Hundreds of armed Israeli soldiers and police spread throughout [...]
MIDEAST: When a Spy Speaks
June 20, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Pierre Klochendler JERUSALEM, Jun 20, 2011 (IPS) – The man who, for the last eight years, embodied Israel’s secret operations and had a penchant for the use of forged documents by his spies has been ordered by his former boss to relinquish his own diplomatic passport. According [...]
OP-ED: Experts Fear Israeli Design to Balkanise Arab States
June 19, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Analysis by Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-Omrani CAIRO, Jun 18, 2011 (IPS) – Developments in Libya have raised fears among Egyptian analysts and political figures of the possible break-up of the North African nation into two warring halves. To support the assertion, they point to longstanding Israeli [...]
MIDEAST: September Knocks on Israeli Gates
June 7, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Pierre Klochendler JERUSALEM, Jun 7, 2011 (IPS) – "September 2011 is knocking on our gates," says an Israeli army officer who, under strict operation procedures, would not reveal his name. He was alluding to the United Nations General Assembly annual meeting expected to resoundingly endorse the Palestinian [...]
MIDEAST: Settlers See New Support from Obama
May 29, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Mel Frykberg RAMALLAH, May 28, 2011 (IPS) – The leader of Israel’s most right-wing government since the establishment of the Jewish state 63 years ago, has returned to Israel with his popularity surging since talks with U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington. A survey carried out by [...]
Peacemakers Swim Against the Tide
May 29, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Frank Mulder UTRECHT, The Netherlands, May 29, 2011 (IPS) – Although politicians seem to have put the peace process on ice, there are many different groups in Israel and the Palestinian territories that still believe in reconciliation. They call on the world not to believe in stereotypes. [...]
MIDEAST: Israel’s Cornered ‘Slaves’ Speak Out
May 25, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Jillian Kestler-D’Amours JERUSALEM, May 25, 2011 (IPS) – A new Israeli law that would bind migrant workers in nursing or care-giving professions to their employers is raising alarm amidst human rights groups and legal experts, who say that the law infringes upon the workers’ right to dignity [...]
MIDEAST: Obama Peace Vision Sparks New Disputes
May 23, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Pierre Klochendler JERUSALEM, May 23, 2011 (IPS) – "The borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps, so that secure and recognised borders are established for both states." The seemingly neutral and quasi-consensual principle laid out by U.S. President [...]
MIDEAST: Into an Unsettled New Year
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Mya Guarnieri HEBRON, Jan 22, 2012 (IPS) – An elderly Palestinian woman spent last week on hunger strike to protest violent attacks by Israeli settlers. Hana Abu Heikel went on the hunger strike on behalf of her family after settlers burned the family car during the previous [...]