Fighting and infighting continues in Gaza, Palestine. Intriguing part is, enemy keeps changing. Now the issue is no longer Palestine-Israel fight. It is a clash within two groups in Gaza, Hamas and Fatah. Further, there are rifts within clans...
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Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, due to face parliament dissolution bill, has lost last chance to make ceasefire negotiations with Hamas mediated by Egypt work in his favour. A rocket attack on Israeli border town of Sderot from Hamas controlled...
Hamas, the political military organisation banned in several countries like Japan, United States, Canada, Jordan and Australia etc was reported making anti-Semitic remarks calling the Jews untrustworthy. Imam Yousif al-Zahar of Hamas, in a meeting with...
The future of the Gaza strip and the West Bank remains again in a loop even as Hamas and Fatah have signed a reconciliation deal sponsored by Yemen at Sanaa. The deal, which is being referred to as the Sanaa Declaration was signed between the Hamas...
Overcome by continuous instability along its coastal strip bordering Gaza that is threatening a population explosion with exodus of Palestinian refugees breaching the Rafah border and growing prominence of Iranian influence in the politics of western...
The Middle East problem has all but ceased to surprise us. In conversation the other day, a relative working in Israel as a precious-stone jeweller spoke with evident disgust against everything Jewish. He spoke how Jews in spite of being only an...
The killing of eight rabbinical students by an East Jerusalem Palestinian is worrying news for Israel. There had been no suicide bombing in the last few years in the country. Thursday's shooting has shattered that comforting fact. It also reflects the...
No wonder the Palestine issue is not getting solved. When we have such a stubborn and inflexible president in the US. The latest exposure by Vanity Fair brings out the fact clearly. It has made clear the fact that however much the Hamas might be...
The people of Gaza are suffering and suffering badly. The latest to raise concerns about the misery of Palestinians living there is Karen Koning AbuZayd of the United Nations Works and Relief Agency.
She is not the only one to do so. Ten human rights...
The war of nerves between the two Palestine factions continues. Fatah has the blessings and resources of both Israel and the US. The Hamas has nothing, except perhaps of purity of its conviction, political guile and the support of most of Palestine...
His is a sane and matured voice in the Israeli government. He wants Israelis and Palestinians to live side-by-side and peacefully together. He advocates Israel withdraw to its pre-1967 positions and withdraw all the settlements from West Bank and Gaza....
The big organizations, like Amnesty International, human rights commissions and above all UN, always talk about the widespread corruption and violence against humanity. Mind you, these things have not started happening recently, particularly in the...
Bush is closing his ears to all sensible advice on the Palestinian issue. He and his faithful deputy Condoleezza Rice want to make the forthcoming Israel-Palestinian peace conference in the US next month a success and at the same time they are shutting...
The festival of Eid el-Fitr is one that is thought to usher in joy and celebration. The Muslim community across the world perceives this festival as one that aids in the consolidation of family ties and fraternity. But ask the desperate and almost...
Well, a sensational development in the Mideast. Is it? Yes, you read it right. There opens a new window for the Palestinians who remain divided after Hamas' violent takeover of Gaza - a very move that not only divided Hamas and Fatah ideologically but...
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