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’. [...]
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 [...]
Palestinian Village Under Siege Following Settler Killings
March 16, 2011 By
Global Political Economy Net / IPS By Mel Frykberg AWARTA, West Bank, March 15, 2011 (IPS) – Food supplies are running low, ambulances have been detained for hours at checkpoints, and hundreds of young men have been held, interrogated and beaten up, some requiring hospitalisation, in the Palestinian village of Awarta in the northern West [...]
Q&A: ‘Women Are Shackled During Childbirth’
March 11, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Mehru Jaffer interviews FABRIZIA FALCIONE, UN WOMEN VIENNA, Mar 10, 2011 (IPS) – Female Palestinian prisoners detained in Israel are often denied legal representation and medical care while being housed in squalid conditions that can include sharing cells with rodents. According to Fabrizia Falcione,project manager for the Women [...]
WOMEN’S DAY: An Arab Israeli Woman Fighting on All Fronts
March 7, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Pierre Klochendler NAZARETH, Northern Israel, Mar 7, 2011 (IPS) – "Every woman is a woman of frustration. Me, I’m just struggle." Hanin Zoabi, 41, is a Palestinian Israeli woman, a fighting woman. An elected member of the Israeli Knesset parliament, she is the first woman on an [...]
Pro-Peace Jewish Lobby Group Urges Obama to Seize Moment
March 1, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Eli Clifton WASHINGTON, Mar1, 2011 (IPS) – J Street, the Washington-based "Pro-Israel, Pro-Peace" advocacy group, drew a large crowd to its annual conference this year despite criticism over its controversial calls for the Barack Obama administration not to veto a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlement [...]
MIDEAST: Gaza Protesters Prepare for March 15
February 27, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Pam Bailey GAZA CITY, Feb 27, 2011 (IPS) – A look at the Tunisian and Egyptian uprisings that succeeded in ousting long- entrenched dictators confirms a universal truth: it is the youth who are leading the way in forcing reform in the Middle East. In the Occupied [...]
