Jun 13 2014 - 10:20am Crisis in Iraq Risks Regional Conflagration
June 13, 2014

Political differences need to be resolved through inclusive process in Iraq with support of regional players. Neither the region nor the world can afford to underestimate how dangerous the present situation has become virtually overnight, and how vital it is to contain and reverse this threat.

Jun 13 2014 - 7:50am Asali: Crisis in Iraq Risks Regional Conflagration
June 13, 2014

A potential calamity is brewing with lightning speed in the Middle East, and the world is paying insufficient attention. Extremist sectarian organizations, most notably Hezbollah and the so-called "Islamic State of Iraq and Syria" (ISIS),

Jun 11 2014 - 11:09am The knowledge constituency versus the ignorance lobby
June 11, 2014

Prof. Mohammed S. Dajani Daoudi, who runs Al-Quds Uni' Dept of American Studies & University Library was allowed to resign his position after uproar over trip to Auschwitz-Birkenau with his students. Some Palestinians, including colleagues, attacked Prof. Dajani with mix of irrational condemnations.

Jun 11 2014 - 11:08am Autopsy for Palestinian killed in alleged Israeli war crime
June 11, 2014

An autopsy was due to be performed on Wednesday on the body of a Palestinian teenager killed last month in an incident that a human rights group said might constitute an Israeli war crime.

Jun 11 2014 - 11:04am Abbas urges UN to intervene in Palestinian hunger strike crisis
June 11, 2014

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas appealed on Tuesday to members of the UN Security Council (except Australia), calling on them to intervene in the crisis over the Palestinian administrative detainees who have been on a hunger strike for nearly two months.

Jun 10 2014 - 10:36am Reuven Rivlin is elected Israel's 10th president
June 10, 2014

MK Reuven Rivlin (Likud) was elected Israel's 10th president on Tuesday, receiving the support of 63 Knesset members in a runoff vote against MK Meir Sheetrit (Hatnuah).

Jun 10 2014 - 10:32am Ya’alon: Land for peace is “a mistake”
June 10, 2014

Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon inveighed against territorial compromise and blamed the Palestinian Authority for the recent failed peace talks in a wide-ranging policy address.

Jun 10 2014 - 10:26am Palestinian Professor who Took Students to Auschwitz Resigns Over Fallout
June 10, 2014

The Palestinian professor who touched off a maelstrom of controversy by taking a group of students to visit the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camps in Poland is now at odds with his former employer after the school accepted his resignation.

Jun 9 2014 - 11:00am Europe's Barroso: Palestinian unity should be 'supported'
June 9, 2014

A Palestinian unity deal with the Hamas movement must be supported, European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso told an Israeli security conference on Sunday.

Jun 9 2014 - 10:53am Pope says Israelis, Palestinians must seek peace 'undaunted in dialogue'
June 9, 2014

Pope Francis told Israeli and Palestinian leaders they "must respond" to their people's yearning for peace "undaunted in dialogue" during an unprecedented prayer meeting among Jews, Christians and Muslims at the Vatican on Sunday.


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