MIDEAST: Israel-U.S. Tensions Continue to Percolate
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Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON, Mar 16 (IPS) – Despite assurances by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Tuesday that the United States and Israel share a ”close, unshakeable bond”, the week-old crisis between the two allies continued to percolate here Tuesday.
Washington cancelled a planned trip to the region by its [...]
MIDEAST: U.S.-Israeli Tensions Escalating Quickly
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Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON, Mar 15 (IPS) – The crisis touched off by last week’s announcement of Israel’s plans to build 1,600 new homes for Jews in Arab East Jerusalem during a high-profile visit by U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden appears to be escalating rapidly.
Michael Oren, Israel’s ambassador to [...]
MIDEAST: An Unlikely Collision Takes Place
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Analysis by Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler
JERUSALEM, Mar 15, 2010 (IPS) – In the middle of last week, it seemed that the old cliché about the light at the end of the dark Middle East tunnel was being confirmed: the U.S. had successfully cajoled both Israel and [...]
US-ISRAEL: Tiff or Tipping Point?
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Analysis by Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON, Mar 13 (IPS) – ”Condemn” is not a word that rolls trippingly off the tongue of a U.S. politician addressing anything having to do with actions, however objectionable, by Israel.
So it was no surprise that close observers of U.S. Middle East policy sat [...]
Perfidy In The Shadow Of Highly Touted Friendship
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By Ernest Corea
IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis
WASHINGTON DC (IDN) – Senator George Mitchell, the Obama Administration’s special envoy for the Middle East, is expected somehow to keep the planned Palestinian-Israeli “proximity talks” process alive, despite the Government of Israel’s attempt to pull the plug on it.
Whatever [...]
MIDEAST: Iran, Israel Spoiling for a Fight?
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Analysis by Mel Frykberg
RAMALLAH, Mar 10 (IPS) – Iran and Israel appear to be spoiling for a fight, going by recent belligerent statements emanating from several regional capitals.
Military movement on the ground is also lending credence to the idea that the mutual loathing and major ideological differences [...]
MIDEAST: Palestinians Preparing for Statehood Anyhow
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Analysis by Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler
JERUSALEM, Mar 8, 2010 (IPS) – Was it Yasser Arafat’s biggest political error? A decade ago, the deadline for the creation of an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel as envisaged in the 1993 Oslo peace accords thrust itself into the fruitless Palestinian-Israeli [...]
MIDEAST: Mayhem in Gaza, Relief in Haiti
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Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler
JERUSALEM, Jan 22 (IPS) – A week after the devastating Haiti earthquake, Israelis watched proudly as their TV channels showed the New York Fire Department rushing two young boys, extricated from the rubble of a building, to a field hospital set up by the [...]
MIDEAST: Israel Crushes Local Dissent, Attacks Global Criticism
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Mel Frykberg
RAMALLAH, Jan 20 (IPS) – Israel is lashing out at international criticism and attempting to crush local dissent in what appears to be growing sensitivity to reproach of its policies.
Several recent incidents have dominated media headlines, including the arrest of a Jewish-American journalist on the grounds [...]
MIDEAST: Harsher Gaza War Looming on Horizon?
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Analysis by Mel Frykberg
RAMALLAH, Jan 19 (IPS) – According to several prominent Palestinians and Israelis another major Israeli military assault on Gaza, even harsher than last year’s Operation Cast Lead, is imminent. But will this change anything and have the underlying causes behind the previous bloody war been [...]
MIDEAST: Israel Declares War on Peace NGOs
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Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler
JERUSALEM, Dec 24 (IPS) – One year after the devastating attack on Hamas in Gaza a new wave of reports castigating Israel for war crimes has emerged.
Now, Israel is fighting back with a report on the reports, picking on international NGOs such as [...]
U.S. – led World Community Fails, Palestinians on Brink of Explosion
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By Nicola Nasser*
“In the absence of all hope, we cry out our cry of hope,” Palestinian Christian leaders, representing churches and church-related organizations, meeting in Bethlehem on December 11, concluded in their 13-page document titled “Kairos Palestine – 2009: A Moment of Truth,” enlisting Christians worldwide in proactive efforts to [...]
MIDEAST: Threat Rises From Within
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Analysis by Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler
JERUSALEM, Nov 23 (IPS) – Israelis were perturbed when new recruits at a recent passing-out parade at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, the remains of Judaism’s holiest site, suddenly unfurled banners reading, ‘Our Sons Do Not Evacuate Jews’.
The concern became more [...]
Israel Under Widespread International Criticism for Settlement Expansion Plan
Democracy Now!
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.
MIDDLE EAST: The Big Mad RushTo Nowhere
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BY FAREED MAHDY*
IDN-InDepthNews Service
ISTANBUL (IDN) – All of a sudden, everybody began running in a new Middle East big chaotic rush, as soon as the Palestinian Authority (PA) announced on Nov. 14 its intention to address the Security Council with a request that the international community re-endorse what [...]
MIDEAST: Israel Lands in Public Relations Nightmare
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Mel Frykberg
JERSUSALEM, Mar 14 (IPS) – Israeli riot police and soldiers have, since Friday, sealed off the Al Aqsa mosque, Islam’s third holiest shrine, restricting entry to women and Palestinian men over 50.
Outside the walled Old City, and in several West Bank villages, clashes were reported between [...]
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