Abbas Seeks Upgrade of Palestinian UN Status

Palestine Chronicle - Saturday 25th May, 2013

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said he will seek to have the Palestinians' UN status upgraded to a sovereign country and cautioned that Israeli settlement expansion meant time was running out for a two-state solution.One year after his emotional bid for full membership of the United Nations, Abbas returned to the UN General Assembly to warn that Israel's tactics were a sign ...

Jerusalem Convent Vandalized by Settlers

Palestine Chronicle - Saturday 25th May, 2013

Suspected Israeli settlers have scrawled graffiti and religious insults on a monastery outside the walls of Jerusalem's Old City on Tuesday, in the latest of a series of attacks on non-Jewish sites. Photographs published online showed blue graffiti denigrating Jesus at the Convent of Saint Francis on Jabel Sahyoun, also known as Mount Zion. The vandals wrote the phrase "price tag" ...

Israeli PM Sets Red Line over Nuclear Iran

Palestine Chronicle - Saturday 25th May, 2013

Former US President Jimmy Carter has downplayed the US influence over Israel and Palestine, saying its record low sway on either side hinders resolution of prolonged Palestinian-Israeli ...

Palestinian Delegation Working Quietly at UN

Palestine Chronicle - Saturday 25th May, 2013

In stark contrast to 2011, the Palestinian delegation to the UN General Assembly is working quietly and limiting its remarks to the media.Since Friday, few details have emerged of President Mahmoud Abbas' visit to New York for the UN's 67th General Assembly, or his plan to seek an upgrade to Palestine's status at the world body.In 2011, Abbas submitted a request to the UN for a ...

Family Blames Sewage Trash for Deaths of 8 Children in Gaza Camp

Palestine Chronicle - Saturday 25th May, 2013

Two Palestinians have been killed in air strikes on the Gaza Strip after they had clashed with Israeli troops crossing into the territory, medical sources ...

Israel and PA Discuss Gaza Offshore Gas Plans

Palestine Chronicle - Saturday 25th May, 2013

Former US President Jimmy Carter has downplayed the US influence over Israel and Palestine, saying its record low sway on either side hinders resolution of prolonged Palestinian-Israeli ...

Hamas Leader Abbas Should End Security Coordination with Israel

Palestine Chronicle - Saturday 25th May, 2013

Former US President Jimmy Carter has downplayed the US influence over Israel and Palestine, saying its record low sway on either side hinders resolution of prolonged Palestinian-Israeli ...

Deaths in Israel-Egypt Border Shootout

Palestine Chronicle - Saturday 25th May, 2013

One Israeli soldier and three armed men have been killed in clashes along the Israel-Egypt border. Israeli troops shot the three heavily armed men when they crossed the Egyptian border and ambushed the soldiers, averting "a very big terror attack", an Israeli military spokeswoman said on Friday. The incident took place on the Israeli side of the frontier at a place called Har Harif, ...

Min. Lapid NYT interview no freeze united Jerusalem

IMRA - Saturday 25th May, 2013

[Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA: On the one hand, Minister Yair Lapid's remarks against a settlement freeze and the division of Jerusalem should serve to dash hopes among those who saw him as the point man for pushing through such policies. On the other hand, Mr. Lapid takes the profoundly dangerous position supporting the immediate creation of an interim Palestinian state. If the idea is to ...

Hard choices needed in Israel

iafrica.com - Saturday 25th May, 2013

US Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a news conference in Tel Aviv on May 24, 2013. Kerry urged Israeli and Palestinian leaders on Friday to take "hard decisions" to revive the Middle East peace process, which has stalled for almost three ...

17 Palestinians transferred to Nauru

The Courier Mail - Saturday 25th May, 2013

A GROUP of 17 Palestinian men seeking asylum have been transferred to a detention centre on Nauru. Department of Immigration said the group arrived at midday (AEST) on Saturday and were accompanied by detention centre staff, interpreters, doctors and Australian Federal Police officers. They are the seventeenth transfer to Nauru but the first group of Palestinian nationals. The federal government ...

Right things done in Kubuqi desert Israeli ambassador

People's Daily - Saturday 25th May, 2013

By Fang YangAmos Nadai, ambassador of Israel to China, spoke highly of the desertification control efforts in the Kubuqi desert of China during an exclusive interview with Xinhuanet here Saturday. "It's a huge area, which is more than half of my country," Nadai said, "I see a lot of planting and it's very beautiful." Nadai was here for the 2011 Kubuqi International ...

PMW Bulletin UNRWA rejects PMW report exposing map erasing Israel

IMRA - Saturday 25th May, 2013

PMW Bulletin May 17, 2013 False claim by UNRWA in response to PMW report: Map without Israel that official posed with does not represent today but "pre-1948" Palestine UNRWA's name still appears in logo of youth center that currently glorifies suicide bomber on its Facebook page Israeli representative to the UN cites PMW's UNRWA story in complaint to UN ...

Anti-Israel activists crash London UEFA event

Jerusalem Post - Saturday 25th May, 2013

UEFA: Israel to host tourney despite PA pressure The UEFA dinner was attended by prominent figures including David Beckham and Sir Alex Ferguson, who were reportedly stunned by the incident. Earlier in the day, pro-Palestinian activists from a group called "Red Card Israeli Racism" protested outside a UEFA Congress meeting at a London hotel, according to the report. Friday's ...

Friends of Palestine Presents Dr. El Farra from Gaza

Green Left Online - Saturday 25th May, 2013

Israel's Operation Cast Lead was described by a UN fact finding mission as "a deliberately disproportionate attack designed to punish, humiliate and terrorise a civilian population." The 2008-09 assault claimed the lives of 1400 Palestinians and thrust the crisis in Gaza into the centre of the debate about the Israel/Palestine conflict. The crippling siege continues to block ...

Three Israeli military aircraft violate Lebanese airspace and UN resolution

albawaba - Saturday 25th May, 2013

UN Security Council resolution . Two Israeli fighter jets crossed into Lebanon's airspace over the southern border village of Kfar Kila, located 96 kilometers (59 miles) south of Beirut, at 9:45 a.m. local time (0645 GMT) on Friday, according to a statement issued by the Lebanese military. The warplanes flew over several areas in Lebanon before leaving the country's airspace at 12:15 ...

Kerry calls for a revival of Israel-Palestine peace talks upon Mideast visit

albawaba - Saturday 25th May, 2013

Kerry said before meeting with Israeli President Shimon Peres in Jerusalem and then traveling to Ramallah in the West Bank to meet with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and his aides."The next 18 to 24 months are essential to agreeing on key steps forward in the peace process and the creation of an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel", Kerry said, adding that ...

Kerry urges Israel to promote peace talks not settlements

China Daily - Friday 24th May, 2013

US Secretary of State John Kerry urged Israel's government on Friday to prevent further settlement construction where possible to help revitalize Middle East peace hopes, but stressed that the Jewish state and Palestinians alike should remain focused on the larger goal of restarting direct negotiations. Explaining part of the strategy of his now 2-month-old peace initiative, Kerry said ...

Al-Assad Syria will slash roots of Israeli adventurism

Pravda - Friday 24th May, 2013

Al-Assad: Syria will slash roots of Israeli adventurism Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, has emphasized on Tuesday that Damascus is able to confront the Israeli regime's adventurism, alluding to the recent Israeli aggression against the Arab country. The Syrian president stressed that the Israeli offensive is evidence of interference by Tel Aviv and its Western and regional allies in the ...

Google eyes Israeli mapping start-up Waze

C News - Friday 24th May, 2013

Waze, an Israeli mobile satellite navigation application, is seen on a smartphone in this photo illustration taken in Tel Aviv May 9, 2013. REUTERS/Nir ...

Why arent Israeli F-16s over Beirut headline news

Electronic Intifada - Friday 24th May, 2013

Beirut triggering unpleasant recollections: the distant roar of Israeli fighter jets as one lies in bed at night. This noise brings with it images and memories from the last war Israel waged ...

Palestinian kids swept up in wave of Israeli arrests

MSNBC - Friday 24th May, 2013

Ahmed Jawabreh, 14, was arrested in the middle of the night for allegedly throwing stones at Israeli soldiers in the West Bank refugee camp where he lives and wasn't released for another 18 days. His was only one of a recent wave of arrests of Palestinian children by Israeli authorities, human rights groups ...