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Hamas Gov't Official Appeals to Israeli Public for Cease-Fire

JERUSALEM -- A senior Hamas government official in Gaza has gone on Israel Radio to make a rare direct appeal to the Israeli public for a halt in the current round of fighting. Hamas' deputy foreign minister, Ghazi Hamad, told the radio station Sunday that the group would cease its attacks on southern Israel if Israel...

Missile Hits Israeli School Bus; Israel Responds With Strikes on Gaza

JERUSALEM -- An Israeli teenager was critically wounded when an anti-tank missile hit a school bus near the Gaza border, and Israel responded today with airstrikes on Gaza that killed at least one Palestinian. The cross-border violence was the latest increase in tension between Israel and the Islamist Hamas movement,...

Israeli Officials Celebrate After Goldstone Rethinks War Crimes Report

JERUSALEM -- Israeli officials feel vindicated after Judge Richard Goldstone retracted part of his harsh criticism of Israel's conduct in Gaza two years ago, and have launched a major diplomatic effort to get the United Nations to rescind the Goldstone Report. "I found it hard to believe that Judge Goldstone, a Jew and...

Israeli Airstrike Kills 2 Gaza Militants

JERUSALEM -- Israeli aircraft struck a Palestinian rocket squad in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, killing two militants as the military prepared to activate a new defense system to shoot down incoming rockets. Islamic Jihad, a militant group that frequently attacks Israel, confirmed two members were killed in the airstrike,...

Gaza Militants Rocket Israel, Drawing Reprisals

JERUSALEM -- Israeli aircraft struck the Gaza Strip on Thursday in response to militant rocket and mortar attacks, stoking concerns that a grave new round of hostilities will fill the vacuum left by an impasse in Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking. Two years of relative calm have been unraveling in recent weeks with acts of...

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Saliba Sarsar: People Power for Peace

June 5, 2012 marks the 45th anniversary of the start of the Six-Day War. One of us experienced the war in Jerusalem at the age of 11, and the other in Beirut at age 4, yet it haunts us to this day.

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My Family's History with Nakba

This week, Palestinians around the world commemorated the Nakba, or "catastrophe," referring to the displacement of over 700,000 Palestinians at the time of Israel's founding in 1948.

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Interview: Mark Thomas on Palestine, Free Speech and Christian Festivals

His comedy manages to be full of conscience and political righteousness without descending into buzzkill.

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A Joke About "Three Wives" Re-Ignites Jewish, Muslim Tensions At California College

Ashton Cohen was posing, one of the women in the image wrote jokingly, with his "three wives," a campus paper reported.

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Azawad: Africa's Newest Nation?

I have also been to Somaliland , which, despite not having any international recognition, has a functioning government, police, elections, civil institutions and all the other things one associates with nationhood.

Palestine News From the Web

05/31/12 Israel Returns 91 Bodies To Palestine To Ease... Source: International Business Times (Australia) Mark Regev, a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, told Reuters that the bodies were delivered in an effort to build bridges.
05/31/12 Palestine - Racist and Apartheid Policies Plague Peace... Source: Canada Freepress President of Palestine and the Palestinian Authority - Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Movement (PLO) and Fatah - the PLO's largest faction - has doomed to the garbage bin any possible peace proposals that might be offered by Israel's new National Unity Government - following his latest outburst in the Lebanese newspaper An-Nahhar: "We won't agree to recognize something called the Jewish state. Why wasn't this issue raised when Israel negotiated with Jordan and Egypt?"
05/31/12 Taboo of truth-telling about Palestine in US... Source: Electronic Intifada Scholars of Palestine have long discussed the hazardous act of bringing up Israeli colonization in American classrooms (secondary and post-secondary).
05/31/12 Taste of Palestine set June 28 Source: Palestine Herald-Press - Palestine TX Tickets are now on sale for the annual Taste of Palestine event â where area restaurants, caterers and local wineries showcase items from their menus.
05/31/12 'Islamic Awakening indebted to Iran Islamic Revolution' Source: Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) "Thanks to his ubiquitous and unique political and Islamic prudence, Imam Khomeini established the revolution that led to formation of the first Islamic Republic system in the world."

Background on Palestine

Palestine ( , , ; , Palaistinē; ; Hebrew: פלשתינה Palestina) is a conventional name, among others, used to describe the geographic region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, and various adjoining lands.

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