By Jeremy Ben-Ami from the Jewish Daily Forward, here.
In just a few short years, the “two-state solution” has gone from presumed conclusion to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to an increasingly distant hope. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has himself said that without such a deal, “the State of Israel is finished.”
Filed under: palestinian rights | Tagged: gaza, palestinian rights, two-state solution | Leave a Comment »
by Jacques Charmelot from Yahoo News here.
BAGHDAD (AFP) – A US air strike damaged a hospital in the Iraqi capital’s violent Shiite stronghold of Sadr City on Saturday, injuring 20 people, as American forces claimed to have killed 14 militiamen.
The US military said it carried out the strike in Sadr City, a bastion of anti-American [...]
Filed under: Iraq | Tagged: baghdad news, iraq war | Leave a Comment »
by Ian Black, from Guardian UK here.
Israel will be urged today to ease its blockade of the Gaza Strip to avert a humanitarian disaster as the Middle East “quartet” meets to consider the state of the faltering peace process.
Filed under: What Our Intersests in the Region Did This Week, palestinian rights | Tagged: Israel, palestinian rights | Leave a Comment »
