He changes his appearance frequently. “Yesterday, my beard was out to here,” he says, cupping a hand an inch from a cheek now shaved clean.
On the Run, the Palestinian Youth Movement May Yet Get Its Way
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Israel keeping Gaza parched, Amnesty International says
Israel is denying Palestinians access to adequate water supplies by controlling shared water resources, the human rights group Amnesty International said in a report released Tuesday. He said that Israeli consumption of water from the mountain aquifer had gone down in absolute terms from 1967 to today, despite the fact that Israel’s population had more than doubled in that time to its current level of approximately 7 million people
Israel’s Peres rejects U.N. Gaza report
Israeli President Shimon Peres rejected a United Nations report on his country’s incursion into Gaza as “one-sided” and “unfair” in an interview with CNN. The U.N.
Abbas tables report slamming Israel, cites lack of support
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday defended a controversial decision to defer action on a United Nations report accusing Israel and Hamas of war crimes. Abbas said the draft resolution backing the so-called Goldstone report “did not gather the number of voices that we needed
Henry: Is Obama’s Nobel a blessing or curse?
Yes he can win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Obama Wins the 2009 Nobel Prize for Effort
The Nobel committee awarded the 2009 Peace Prize to President Barack Obama Friday in a prospective, premature accolade normally reserved for those who have accomplished considerable, tangible results in the pursuit of peace. To be sure, Obama has tried to advance the cause of peace
Unrest continues for third day in East Jerusalem
Israeli police on Tuesday arrested Sheikh Raed Salah, leader of the Islamic movement in Israel, in the third consecutive day of unrest in East Jerusalem, police said. Salah, an Israeli-Arab and former mayor of the Haifa District city of Umm el-Fahm, was arrested in Wadi Joz in East Jerusalem and was being questioned by police for incitement, Jerusalem police spokesman Shmulik ben Rubi said.
Police out in force day after riots at Jerusalem holy site
Police were out in force at one of Jerusalem’s holiest sites Monday, one day after 150 Palestinians rioted there.
Israel frees Palestinian prisoners for video of kidnapped soldier
Israel released 19 Palestinian women prisoners Friday in exchange for a recent proof-of-life videotape of kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, Israeli officials said.
President Obama to host Israeli-Palestinian talks
President Obama will host meetings Tuesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, the White House announced Saturday. The meetings come as hopes for renewed Israeli-Palestinian talks have dimmed despite diplomatic efforts of former Maine Sen.