Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Pierre Klochendler JERUSALEM, May 3, 2011 (IPS) – First Egypt, then Syria, finally the Palestinians – while most Israelis concur with their Prime Minister that the revolutions, upheavals and shifting alliances closing in on their country have postponed peace prospects, remarkably, the evolving events convulsing the region [...]
Israel Lashes Out at Palestinian Reconciliation
May 2, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Mel Frykberg RAMALLAH, May 2, 2011 (IPS) – Israel has lashed out at the recent ground-breaking deal in Cairo, which will see unification of the two main Palestinian political factions after four years of bitter infighting, by threatening economic sanctions against the Palestinians. "We have agreed to [...]
‘Good News’ on Holocaust Anniversary
May 2, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Pierre Klochendler JERUSALEM, May 2, 2011 (IPS) – Israelis woke up in the morning of Holocaust Remembrance Day, switched on their radio, and heard unexpected "good news". Local stations broke their special programming marking the commemoration of the Second World War Nazi holocaust with a exceptional address [...]
MIDEAST: Israel Awaits Palestinian ‘Tsunami’
April 26, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Pierre Klochendler TEL AVIV, Apr 26, 2011 (IPS) – A small rally by prominent Israeli left-wing intellectuals in support of Palestinian statehood revived the dormant debate about the morality and sustainability of Israel’s 43-year occupation. Neither the choice of site nor timing was coincidental. The civil society [...]
Name Blame Game As Israeli-Palestinian Deadlock Persists
April 26, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Bernard Schell IDN-InDepth NewsReport CAIRO (IDN) – While the United Nations is urging Israel and the Palestinian Authority to end the deadlock in peace talks, representatives of the two conflict parties continue to cross swords blaming each other for the unending cycle of violence and ‘retaliation’. [...]
Israel Leads the Electric Charge
April 12, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Pierre Klochendler HERZLIYA, Israel, Apr 12, 2011 (IPS) – A woman takes the driver’s seat, turns on the radio, sliding through broadcasts of the tit-for-tat battles between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas till she finds a quiet music station. "I can’t hear anything," she mutters [...]
MIDEAST: War Clouds Back Over Gaza
April 12, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Mel Frykberg RAMALLAH, Apr 12, 2011 (IPS) – After several days of intense violence, during which 19 Palestinians were killed and one Israeli wounded, a fragile calm has returned to Gaza. But political commentators argue that this could well be a precursor to Israel’s next war on [...]
Israel Accused of ‘A Form of Ethnic Cleansing’
March 24, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Mel Frykberg RAMALLAH, Mar 23, 2011 (IPS) – "If the regime that encourages incitement, racism and anti-democracy is not toppled soon, we will find that the future is already here," says Israeli columnist Sefi Rachlevsky in the Israeli daily ‘Haaretz’. He adds: "If there is one country [...]
Settlers Observe ‘Day Of Rage’ Pouring Wrath On Palestinians
March 22, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Mel Frykberg RAMALLAH, Mar 22, 2011 (IPS) – Israeli settlers observed their own ‘Day of Rage’ last Thursday, launching reprisal attacks on Palestinians for the recent murder of a settler family in an illegal Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank, and the demolition of a settlement [...]
Israel Deploys a Miniature Missile Defence System
March 19, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Pierre Klochendler NAHAL OZ, ISRAEL-GAZA BORDER, Mar 18, 2011 (IPS) – Amidst recrudescence of tension on this critical front, the Israeli army is hoping to gain the technological upper hand in missile combat with ‘Palestinian militants’ by equipping one of its most sophisticated tanks with a miniature [...]
