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1. UN Endorses Israel-Palestinian War Crimes Report November 06, 2009 Palestinian woman walks past house destroyed during Israel's 22-day offensive in Jabalia in northern Gaza Strip, 15 Feb 2009 After two days of debate, the U.N. General Assembly has overwhelmingly endorsed a report from the Human Rights Council calling for domestic investigations into alleged war crimes committed by both Israel's military and Palestinian militants during the Gaza conflict that began last December. The final vote was 114 in favor, 18 against and 44 abstentions.Strong support came from the Arab and non-aligned countries, many of whom co-sponsored the draft resolution. Pales... (read more)

2. Bethlehem - Is it the True Manger of Christ? November 06, 2009 We arrived in the Holy Land after a ten hour bus ride and two weeks in Egypt. We left most of our Astara tour of 100 people. Twenty two of us stayed on to visit Jerusalem. I really didn't understand the politics of the region until I got there. We had a Palestinian tour guide and so we were to stay in "occupied territory." This territory was actually the Mount of Olives where Jesus ascended into heaven and where he suffered alone in the Garden of Gethsemane. Those 2000 year old olive trees still produce olives. Before I left on the trip my Israeli friend told me that we must be stayi... (read more) Author: Merry C. Battles

3. UN Takes up Gaza War Crimes Report November 04, 2009 The United Nations General Assembly is meeting to discuss a U.N. report that alleges both Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas committed war crimes during their conflict in the Gaza Strip.The assembly Wednesday debates a resolution on the report, and a vote could come as early as Wednesday evening.South African judge Richard Goldstone wrote the report based on a U.N. fact-finding mission on the Gaza conflict. It recommends that Israel and Hamas face potential prosecution in The Hague if they do not conduct credible investigations within six months.Both Israel and Hamas have denied ... (read more)

4. Clinton Tries to Reassure Arab Leaders on Israeli Settlements November 04, 2009 US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Cairo, Egypt, 04 Nov 2009U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has met with Egypt's president as she tries to reassure Arab leaders the Obama administration stands firmly against Israeli settlement activity on occupied Palestinian land.  Secretary of State Clinton said Washington remains committed to the principle of ending Israeli construction on Palestinian territory."Our policy on settlements has not changed. We do not accept the legitimacy of settlement activity, and we have a very firm belief that ending all settlement activity, current an... (read more)

5. Clinton Calls Israeli Settlement Activity Illegitimate November 04, 2009 U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the United States does not accept the legitimacy of Israeli settlement activity on Palestinian territory.                          Watch the Clinton Interview  US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks during press conference in Cairo, Egypt 4 Nov 2009Clinton delivered her remarks Wednesday in Cairo after talks with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak about Middle East peace efforts.She said the U.S. would like to s... (read more)

6. Palestinian Farmers in Olive Oil Boom November 03, 2009 As Israel's army removes more checkpoints in the occupied West Bank, many Palestinians are experiencing an economic boom. Some of that growth has come from the production of olives, a staple in the region since ancient times. Many think olive oil exports from the West Bank could be a foundation for the economy of a future Palestinian state. Some entrepreneurs in the northern West Bank village of Berqin are discovering a new kind of oil wealth. Mahmoud Samara picking olivesMoney does grow on trees for Mahmoud Samara and his clan. The family is harvesting olives, like it has done for cent... (read more)

7. Clinton Tries to Appease Arab Anger About Praise for Israeli Settlement Offer November 03, 2009 U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is trying to quiet Arab complaints about her praise for an Israeli offer to limit Jewish settlements on the West Bank. Palestinian leaders say the Israeli offer does not go far enough.US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivers her speech at the opening of the World Policy Conference in Marrakech, Morocco, 03 Nov 2009Secretary of State Clinton tried for a second day to address Arab complaints that her praise for an offer to limit settlements encourages Israel to sidestep a 2003 promise to end those settlements.In Jerusalem Saturday, Clinton sa... (read more)

8. Clinton Says Israel Should Reciprocate Palestinian Moves November 02, 2009 U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says Palestinian authorities have made positive steps to improve security and those moves should be reciprocated by Israel. Clinton had angered Palestinian leaders with earlier comments praising an Israeli offer to limit the expansion of Jewish settlements.US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (L) with Moroccan Foreign Minister Taib Fassi Fihri before their bilateral meeting Marrakesh, 02 November 2009Clinton says Palestinian President Mahumd Abass has shown "leadership and determination" to improve security and that Israel "should reciprocate."Clinton s... (read more)

9. Clinton in Morocco for Talks on Middle East November 01, 2009 U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in Morocco for a meeting of foreign ministers from the Middle East and the world's leading industrialized nations. They will discuss democracy in the region and ways to resolve the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (L) is greeted by her Moroccan counterpart Taib Fassi Fihri upon her arrival at Marrakech airport, 01 Nov 2009Secretary Clinton came to Marrakech for the sixth Forum for the Future, which joins civil society groups and the private sector with foreign ministers from the Group of Eight leading industrialized ... (read more)

10. Palestinians Accuse US of Damaging Peace Process November 01, 2009 Palestinian leaders are voicing frustration after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton praised Israel for making what she said are unprecedented concessions in efforts to restart peace negotiations. Israeli leaders are keeping up their calls for the Palestinians to drop all preconditions. Palestinian leaders on Sunday stuck to their demands that Israel stop all settlement activity before any resumption of peace talks that have been stalled since December.Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu reacts with US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, right, seen during a press conference in Jerusale... (read more)

11. Huge Gaps Ahead as Clinton Pushes for Resumption of Israeli-Palestinian Talks October 31, 2009 Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas (L) meeting with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (R) in the Emirati capital of Abu Dhabi, 31 Oct 2009U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has arrived in Jerusalem for talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the resumption of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.  The top U.S. diplomat has met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Abu Dhabi before shuttling to JerusalemU.S. officials have acknowledged early on that bringing the Israelis and Palestinians back to negotiations will be a long and complex process. Secretary of State ... (read more)

12. Clinton Holding Mideast Peace Talks October 31, 2009 US Secretary of State Clinton (file photo)U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is holding talks with Israeli and Palestinian officials on relenting the Mideast peace process.Clinton, joined by U.S. envoy George Mitchell met Saturday with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the capital of United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi.She is also scheduled to hold talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel.The Israeli leader said Friday he looked forward to discussions on resuming peace negotiations with the Palestinians "as soon as possible." Prime Minister Netanyahu spoke followin... (read more)

13. Israeli Police Storm Disputed Jerusalem Holy Site October 25, 2009 Israeli forces stormed the Jerusalem's holiest shrine, Sunday, firing stun grenades to disperse hundreds of Palestinian protesters, Jerusalem, 25 Oct. 2009There was violence today at the most sensitive holy shrine in Jerusalem revered by both Muslims and Jews. At least 15 Palestinians were arrested, but there were no serious injuries. Israeli police stormed into a disputed holy place in Jerusalem's Old City and threw stun grenades to disperse Palestinian stone throwers. The clash took place at the Mosque of Al Aksa, the third holiest place in Islam. Jews call it the Temple Mount, the site o... (read more)

14. Abbas's Call for Elections Deepens Palestinian Divisions October 24, 2009 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (File)The Palestinian Authority has announced a date for elections, throwing a wrench into national unity talks with its Islamic militant rivals. Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas signed a decree that presidential and parliamentary elections will take place on January 24. But the announcement only deepened Palestinian divisions. The vote is supposed to take place in the West Bank, which is controlled by Mr. Abbas, and the Gaza Strip which is ruled by its rival faction Hamas. But Hamas quickly rejected the call for elections, saying it is ill... (read more)

15. Israel Condemns UN War Crimes Resolution October 16, 2009 Israel comdemns the United Nations Human Rights Council's approval of the Goldstone Report which accuses Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas of war crimes during the Gaza conflict in January. Israel says the resolution is biased and one-sided, and the charges of war crimes are outrageous. "This diktat is phrased in very extreme terms that try to impose rules that will make it impossible for any country to defend themselves against terror," said Israeli spokesman Yigal Palmor. Israel says its three-week assault on the Gaza Strip was an act of legitimate self-defense in response to... (read more)

16. UN Body Endorses Gaza War Crimes Report October 16, 2009 Palestinian civilians and medics run to safety during an Israeli strike over a UN school in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip, 17 Jan 2009The U.N. Human Rights Council has endorsed a report that accuses Israel and the Palestinians of war crimes during the Gaza conflict nearly a year ago.After two days of debate, the council voted 25 to six Friday in Geneva in favor of a resolution that backs the report, with 11 countries abstaining.The U.N. report calls on both sides to conduct investigations into the war crimes accusations within six months. Otherwise, the matter would be referred to the Inter... (read more)

17. Israel Urges West to Reject War Crimes Resolution October 15, 2009 The U.N. Human Rights Council is meeting in Geneva to discuss alleged Israeli war crimes in the Gaza Strip. Israel is worried about the repercussions.Palestinian woman sits in rubble of her home in eastern area of Jebaliya after Israeli troops withdrew from northern Gaza Strip, Sunday, 18 Jan. 2009Israel is urging the United States and other Western nations not to vote for a resolution of the U.N. Human Rights Council to adopt the Goldstone Report.  The report, commissioned by the United Nations, accuses Israel of war crimes during the three-week Gaza War last December and January. The ... (read more)

18. Hamas Seeks Changes to Palestinian Reconciliation Deal October 15, 2009 Hamas Movement leader Khaled Mashaal, left Ramadan Shallah, Islamic Jihad head, and Ahmed Jibril, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine head in Damascus, 11 Oct 2009Palestinian militant group Hamas says it has rejected an Egyptian-mediated proposal to reconcile with the rival Fatah group, because it does not include a clause on Palestinians' right to resist Israeli occupation.Hamas and several other Syria-based Palestinian factions issued a joint statement Thursday saying they will not sign the unity deal unless it is revised.Hamas said the current agreement makes no reference to it... (read more)

19. Descending To The Dead Sea October 16, 2009 The Dead Sea is a lake with an extremely high saline concentration, which straddles Israel, Jordan and the occupied Westbank. Incidentally, you might be curious where the Palestinian territory called the Westbank got its name from, it got it from its location on the west bank of the Jordan River. The Jordan River is the main tributary of the Dead Sea, and flows south into it, at the lowest point on Earth. The Dead Sea's name was derived from the impossibililty of animals to live within its highly saline waters. The high concentration of salt results from evaporation caused by the area's e... (read more) Author: Bob Ethan

20. October 12, 2009 Amreeka's stars, pictured on the movie's promotional posterWhat is it like for a mother and her teenage son to settle in America? And what if they are Palestinian and their arrival coincides with the onset of the 1991 Gulf war in which a U.S.-led coalition fought Iraq?  A new film, Amreeka, recently opened in U.S. theaters, and it answers these and other questions about life in America for those from a very different part of the world. Saqib ul-Islam of VOA's Urdu Service spoke with the writer and director of the film, Cherien Dabis, to learn more about Amreeka and the woman who made i... (read more)

21. Israeli Arabs' Oath of Loyalty? October 12, 2009 Israel's Israel Beitenu party, which is the second largest party in the government after the Likud, ran on a platform of repealing Israeli citizenship from anyone who doesn't make a pledge of loyalty to the State of Israel. In May of this year the Israeli government voted to reject that suggestion. There was never much doubt that the suggestion would be thrown out. The Likud party never supported it, in reality none of the practical parties supported it. Israel Beitenu ran on a populist platform meant to stir up the population, but any party that's use to being in power knows how deadly of... (read more) Author: Adam Anders

22. To Many Palestinians, Obama Nobel Peace Prize Unjustified October 09, 2009 President Barack Obama speaks about winning the Nobel Peace Prize, 09 Oct 2009President Barack Obama has been credited for making the Israeli Palestinian peace process a priority at the start of his administration, unlike previous U.S. leaders. However, news that Mr. Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize got less than enthusiastic praise from Palestinians living under Israeli occupation.Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas congratulated President Obama for winning the Nobel Peace prize, but the sentiments were not shared by many on the streets of Arab East Jerusalem Friday. For Fauzi Abu Taieh, 45, ... (read more)

23. Palestinian President, Pope Discuss Mideast Conflict October 08, 2009 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met with Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican Thursday.  The two men spoke privately for 15 minutes and addressed the subject of Mr. Abbas's meeting last month with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Barack Obama in New York. Pope Benedict XVI meets Palestinian Pres. Mahmoud Abbas at the Vatican, 08 Oct 2009Mr. Abbas presented the Holy See with a piece of ceramic art depicting Jerusalem with the words "Jerusalem, Capital of Arab Culture" written on it in both Arabic and English.  Pope Benedict toured the Middle East in May of ... (read more)

24. UN Security Council to Discuss Gaza Report Next Week October 08, 2009 UN Security CouncilA divided U.N. Security Council will meet next week at the request of Arab countries to discuss a U.N. report on war crimes committed by both Palestinian militants and Israel's army during last December's conflict in the Gaza Strip. The Security Council's monthly meeting on the Middle East was scheduled for October 20, but after a request from council member Libya that some western diplomat's characterized as a bit of a "surprise", the 15-member body agreed in closed consultations Wednesday to move up its session to October 14. A scheduling change is not usually ... (read more)

25. Abbas Aide: We Erred Over Gaza Report October 07, 2009 An aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says the Palestinian leadership erred by suspending action on a U.N. report that criticizes Israel's offensive in Gaza. Yasser Abed Rabbo (left) with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (file 2009)Yasser Abed Rabbo, a senior advisor to Mr. Abbas, said Wednesday that the decision to defer until March a vote by the U.N. Human Rights Council on the report was "a mistake." It was the first such comment by a Palestinian official after days of angry protests in the West Bank and Gaza.The report accuses Israel and Hamas of committing war crimes and poss... (read more)

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