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“It’s time for you to find another donkey.” With those words, according to Palestinian sources, Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas told the Palestine Liberation Organziation (PLO) executive committee that he would not...
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For a quarter of a century, the 73 year-old who goes by the nickname, Abu Samir, has stubbornly refused to abandon his home, despite Israel’s efforts to make him leave.
“They’ve done everything so that I leave my house,” he...
Dusty sacks filled with cans of Coca-Cola were being loaded onto trucks by young boys, headed for supermarkets in Gaza City. Thousands of motorcycles were lined up on display in a nearby stadium, ranging in price from $2,000 to $10,000.
The olive branch may be a universal symbol for peace, but in the West Bank, the olive harvest brings a season of unrest between Jewish settlers and Palestinians.
It owes much to proximity. Small communities of Israelis living in the West Bank are...
It is a cynical but time-honoured practice in Middle Eastern politics: the statesmen who decry the political and humanitarian crisis of the approximately 3.9 million Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and in Gaza ignore the plight of an...
Abu Ahmed lived through last winter’s Gaza war in a daze. Though the district where he lives was invaded by Israeli ground forces and came under heavy fire, including the use of white phosphorus shells, he felt little fear. For by then, the...
“The Israeli security cabinet decided to authorise the release of 20 Palestinian women detainees and prisoners,” the Israeli prime minister’s office said in a statement.
“Israel will receive updated and clear proof on the health...
If France’s opposition to the invasion of Iraq prompted Capitol Hill hawks to rename the fries in the congressional canteen, its stance on Iran could just as soon get them singing “La Marseillaise.” President Nicolas Sarkozy’s...
On the eve of the Israeli school year’s start on Tuesday, recent Ethiopian immigrant Ayenew Belay didn’t know whether his 7-year-old son Avi would be starting first grade.
Government officials had asked several private religious schools,...
Fatah, the divided and demoralized movement of the late Yasser Arafat and the West’s best hope for delivering a Mideast peace deal, is trying to stage a comeback.
On Tuesday, Fatah is supposed to open its first convention in 20 years, hoping to...
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