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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip —
In a boost to Gaza's Hamas government, the Gulf state of Qatar said on Sunday it opened the first diplomatic office in the isolated territory since the Islamic military group took power five years ago.
GAZA, Sept. 30 (Xinhua) -- Dozens of Palestinian notables and community leaders demonstrated on Sunday at the borderline area between southern Gaza Strip and Egypt, calling on Egypt not to destroy dozens of smuggling tunnels.
RAMALLAH, Sept. 30 (Xinhua) -- A senior Palestinian official on Sunday said that the vote on the bid of recognizing Palestinian as a non-member state by the United Nations will be "very soon."
Chief Palestinian negotiator, Saeb Erekat, told Xinhua that the Palestinian delegation in New York began its contacts and consultations with Arab and foreign countries.
RAMALLAH, West Bank -- A Palestinian official Friday criticized President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for opposing Palestinians' bid for statehood recognition in the United Nations, and failing to give the issue more attention in their speeches this week before the international body.
RAMALLAH, Sept. 30 (Xinhua) -- Israeli authorities on Sunday released two lawmakers in the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) in the West Bank.
JERUSALEM — If the Messiah descends from the Mount of Olives as foretold in the Bible, America's two biggest Christian broadcasters are well-positioned to cover it live thanks to recent acquisitions of adjacent Jerusalem studios on a hill overlooking the Old City.
Cambridge, Mass.
A major Israeli-Palestinian activist group is bucking conventional wisdom by arguing that now is the right time to engage Americans in the moribund Middle East peace process.
The presidential campaign season is traditionally a terrible time to make any progress on foreign policy, especially during elections focused on pocketbook issues.
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- Some Palestinian Authority government institutions have not paid their electricity bills for more than two years, the head of the indebted Jerusalem electricity company has revealed.
The company, which supplies power to Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Ramallah and Jericho, still owes its Israeli supplier around 300 million shekels ($76 million), Director-General Hisham al-Umari told Ma'an on Sunday.
The Israeli company has repeatedly postponed threats to cut power supplies.
RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- The Palestinian Ministry of Finance announced Sunday that fuel prices are set to be reduced, a statement said.
The price cuts, which will be implemented on Oct. 1, will see a liter of diesel reduced from 6.95 shekels ($1.77) to 6.70 ($1.70). A liter of benzene will now cost 7.60 shekels ($1.93), down from 7.98 shekels ($2), and a 12kg canister of domestic-use gas will be reduced to 64 shekels ($16), down from 65.
In a poll published on Saturday by the Arab World for Research & Development, 85 percent said they support holding local elections, which will take place on Oct. 20 in the West Bank only.
Defense Minister Ehud Barak harshly criticized Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman over the weekend, for naming Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas as “the biggest obstacle to peace.”
Within the guarded walls of the Palestinian presidential compound, known as the Muqata, the body of Yasser Arafat lies inside a gleaming limestone and glass mausoleum. It is here that political figures, dignitaries, devotees and tourists come to pay their respects to a man who was revered and reviled across the world as the face of the Palestinian struggle for decades.
(JTA) -- Jordan reportedly has appointed a new ambassador to Israel.
The appointment late last week of career diplomat Walid Obeidat was reported by the French news service AFP and Ammon News.
The position has been vacant since mid-2010, when Ali al-Ayed left to become the country's minister of media affairs.
Jordan did not fill the position immediately, citing the lack of progress in peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, and Israel's treatment of the Palestinians.
Hamas is cracking down on a new threat to the well-being of the citizens of the Gaza Strip: low-riding pants.
Several Gazan teenagers from Rafah were recently arrested by Hamas police because the clothes they wore were “foreign to Palestinian society, and contradicted the culture, values, and ethical code of the Strip’s residents,” the Hebrew daily Maariv reported on Sunday.
The perpetrators had adopted “Western street fashion” and wore pants that rode so low as to show their underpants.
KUWAIT (Reuters) - Palestinian authorities are aiming to securitize an initial $200 million of some $1.3 billion worth of government debt by the first quarter of 2013 to help reduce state borrowing from local banks, a top banker said on Sunday.
Disturbing developments are sweeping across the greater Middle East. In Syria, tens of thousands of innocent people have been slaughtered. In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood has come to power, and the country's peace treaty with Israel hangs in the balance. In Libya, our ambassador was murdered in a terrorist attack. U.S. embassies throughout the region have been stormed in violent protests. And in Iran, the ayatollahs continue to move full tilt toward nuclear-weapons capability, all the while promising to annihilate Israel.
President Obama [23] did not meet with Egypt [24]'s Mohamed Morsi or Israel's [25]
Media Outlet:
The Boston Globe
The Palestinian Authority is on the verge of financial collapse — and that’s not just a problem for Palestinians. It is also bad news for the United States and Israel, both of which say they support a future Palestinian state. Unrest is spreading in the West Bank over high prices and delayed salary payments by the Palestinian Authority, the area’s largest employer. Economic woes add to mounting frustration after four years of stalled peace talks.
Recently, an official of the Finance Ministry in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip announced that since 2006 the office had not received a single report of corruption. Whether or not this is true, the fact is that Hamas corruption is not only pervasive in Gaza, it has also been detrimental to the greater social and economic good.
Let’s face it: September 27th, 2012, was not a good day for the Israeli Prime Minister’s office props and graphics department [29].
LAST month, in a deeply disturbing ruling, an Israeli court dismissed the civil lawsuit brought by my family against the state of Israel for the wrongful death of my daughter Rachel Corrie.
Born and raised in Olympia, Rachel was a human-rights defender and peace activist killed in 2003 by an armored Israeli military bulldozer as she stood for hours, visibly and nonviolently protesting the Israeli government’s policy of civilian home demolitions in Rafah, Gaza.
Kabuki theater, with its extremely stylized dramaturgy, and the Yiddish stage, with its lachrymose realism, are rarely joined. The Democratic National Convention succeeded, however, in fusing the two. A platform insertion terming Jerusalem the undivided capital of Israel was gaveled through by a visibly unhappy mayor of Los Angeles, reportedly at the insistence of the White House, which sought to silence Republican charges that the administration is disloyal to our unruly client state.
Links:
[1] http://www.americantaskforce.org/print/27995
[2] http://www.americantaskforce.org/printmail/27995
[3] http://www.americantaskforce.org/printpdf/27995
[4] http://www.americantaskforce.org/rss/wpr
[5] https://www.americantaskforce.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=1
[6] http://www.statesman.com/ap/ap/top-news/qatar-opens-diplomatic-office-in-gaza/nSQDx/
[7] http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012-09/30/c_131883287.htm
[8] http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012-09/30/c_131883288.htm
[9] http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/09/palestinian-un-recognition-us-criticized.html
[10] http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012-09/30/c_131883224.htm
[11] http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-israel-evangelical-20121001,0,6110978.story
[12] http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2012/0928/Activists-Now-yes-now-is-the-time-for-US-to-push-for-MidEast-peace
[13] http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=524912
[14] http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=524852
[15] http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=524559
[16] http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/barak-lieberman-s-comments-on-abbas-harm-israel-s-interests-1.467612
[17] http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/sep/30/yasser-arafat-exhumed-questions
[18] http://www.jta.org/news/article/2012/09/30/3108316/jordan-appoints-new-ambassador-to-israel
[19] http://www.timesofisrael.com/hamas-fashion-police-crack-down-on-baggy-pants/
[20] http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-palestinians-debtbre88t0j7-20120930,0,7536652.story
[21] http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444712904578024293333633994.html
[22] http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-miller-morsi-netanyahu-no-obama-20120930,0,2678660.story
[23] http://www.latimes.com/topic/politics/government/barack-obama-PEPLT007408.topic
[24] http://www.latimes.com/topic/intl/egypt-PLGEO00000078.topic
[25] http://www.latimes.com/topic/intl/israel-PLGEO0000010.topic
[26] http://www.latimes.com/topic/politics/government/government-minist</p
[27] http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Opinion/Commentary/2012/Oct-01/189709-hamas-corruption-weighs-heavily-on-gaza.ashx#axzz283exsXyV
[28] http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/28/spare-a-thought-for-bibi-s-medievalists.html
[29] http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/120927074234-benjamin-netanyahu-bomb-un-horizontal-gallery.jpg
[30] http://seattletimes.com/html/opinion/2019291362_guestcindycorriexml.html
[31] http://www.thenation.com/article/170117/false-prophecy-and-real-history-mideast
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