Oct 9 2014 - 10:24am Hisham, Hope and Despair
October 9, 2014

Retaining agency requires retaining hope. Not pie in the sky, Pollyanna hope; but real hope based on existing realities and plausible outcomes. The grounds for such hope are genuine. The task is to first identify the bases for improvement, and then to act on them.​

Oct 9 2014 - 10:22am 30 ministers to participate in Cairo conference to rebuild Gaza
October 9, 2014

The Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Wednesday that some 30 foreign ministers and more than 50 delegations will participate in the Cairo conference focused on rebuilding Gaza on Sunday.

Oct 9 2014 - 10:19am Palestinian PM convenes first unity government meeting in Gaza
October 9, 2014

Palestinian technocrat prime minister Rami Hamdallah arrived in the Hamas-dominated Gaza Strip on Thursday and convened the first meeting of a unity government there since a brief civil war in 2007 between Hamas and forces loyal to the Fatah party.

Oct 8 2014 - 10:40am The Palestinians thank you, Sweden
October 8, 2014

The announcement by the new center-left government in Stockholm last Friday that it intended to recognize a state of Palestine should trouble the Israeli government and all those Zionists who assume that the current situation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can remain as it is indefinitely.

Oct 8 2014 - 10:25am EU set to reassess ties if Israel doesn’t move on peace
October 8, 2014

Fed up with settlement expansion, officials in Brussels are working on punitive measures to be implemented as soon as the political leadership wants to do so

Oct 8 2014 - 10:20am Israeli police, Palestinians, clash in Jerusalem
October 8, 2014

Palestinian demonstrators clashed with Israeli police at a sensitive holy site in Jerusalem on Wednesday, leaving three policemen lightly injured, a police spokeswoman said.

Oct 7 2014 - 10:12am Without a two-state solution, Americans will challenge Zionism itself
October 7, 2014

Israelis need to realize that by undermining the two-state solution, Netanyahu is prompting a debate inside the United States about Zionism itself. That debate will take a long time. But unless Israeli policy changes, it’s a debate that we Zionists may ultimately lose.

Oct 7 2014 - 10:09am Kerry to attend Gaza reconstruction talks in Cairo
October 7, 2014

United States Secretary of State John Kerry will participate in an upcoming conference on rebuilding the Gaza Strip, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters on Monday, according to AFP.

Oct 7 2014 - 10:06am U.S. officials score Netanyahu on ‘American values’ comment
October 7, 2014

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s questioning of “American values” in pushing back against Obama administration criticism of Jerusalem building was “odd,” U.S. officials said.

Oct 6 2014 - 10:16am ISIS and sexual slavery
October 6, 2014

ISIS has kidnapped 4,000 Iraqi girls and women from Yazidi and other minority groups for the purpose of selling them to locals or donating them to loyal jihadists. Sadly this is not unique, but these crimes are being committed on an extraordinary scale by ISIS.


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