Updated: 05:31 (Irish time) on Wednesday, 8 February 2012
#164395 
Intervention in Syria will escalate, not stop the killing
by Seumas Milne in The Guardian, 7 February 2012
#164394 Rights and protest in the Middle East
by Guardian contributor in The Guardian, 7 February 2012
#164387 Israel must release or try Palestinian detainee on prolonged hunger strike
by Amnesty International, 6 February 2012
»The Israeli authorities must release a Palestinian detainee or charge him with a recognizable criminal offence and promptly try him, Amnesty International said today amid fears the man could die in detention after more than 50 days on hunger strike.
Khader Adnan, 33, was arrested on 17 December 2011 at his home in the village of Arrabe near Jenin in the occupied West Bank, after Israeli security forces burst into his home in the early h ...
#164386 Fatah and Hamas agree that Abbas will lead Palestinian unity cabinet
by Donald Macintyre in The Independent, 7 February 2012
»The leaders of Fatah and Hamas yesterday agreed that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas could head an interim "unity" cabinet to pave the way for fresh future elections in Gaza and the West Bank.
The accord signed by Mr Abbas and Hamas political bureau chief Khaled Meshal in Qatar cleared one important obstacle standing in the way of the two factions working together and ending more than four years of enmity.
By providing for Mahmou ...
#164381 Public outcry forces Palestinian PM to suspend austerity measures
by Amira Hass in Ha'aretz, 7 February 2012
Fayyad's cabinet launches austerity plan in early January, including tax hikes, early retirement for civil servants and government spending cuts. ...
#164375 Jews who are malicious to those who help us
by Akiva Eldar in Ha'aretz, 7 February 2012
Testimony from Yitzhak Navon and Ariel Sharon was not enough to prompt the state to give back the land it seized from an Arab man who helped Israel in 1948. ...
#164348 Public outcry forces Palestinian PM Fayyad to suspend austerity measures in West Bank
by Amira Hass in Ha'aretz, 7 February 2012
#164336 Obama orders new sanctions on Iran, including 'deceptive' Central Bank
by guardian.co.uk in The Guardian, 6 February 2012
#164335 Imperialism, despotism, and democracy in Syria
by Joseph A. Massad in Al-Jazeera Online, 6 February 2012
#164334 Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas to form unity government
by Harriet Sherwood in The Guardian, 6 February 2012
#164333 Hamas at home and abroad
by Saleh al-Naami in Al-Ahram Weekly, 2 February 2012
»Even the closest people to Khaled Meshaal, the head of Hamas's politburo, did not expect the
bombshell announcement he made during the group's Shura Council meeting in Khartoum on 30 December
2011, when he suddenly announced he would not accept being nominated for another term in office.
Elections inside the group will take place in six months to choose members of the group's Shura
Council and politburo. Sources told Al-Ahram Weekly that Mes ...
#164326 Hamas leadership leaves Syria
by Saed Bannoura in IMEMC (International Middle East Middle Media Center), 6 February 2012
»The final member of the leadership of the Hamas party left Syria on Sunday, in an attempt to
separate the party from the Syrian government’s crackdown on protesters. Previously, the Hamas
party had not taken a strong stand on the Syrian government’s crackdown on protesters, and was
criticized by the international community for tacitly supporting the Syrian regime.
Numerous members of the party had been based in Syria for years after having b ...
#164314 Israel can clear Mideast of nukes, it just won't
by Akiva Eldar in Ha'aretz, 6 February 2012
If Israel accepts an invitation to the conference in Helsinki, it will have an opportunity to move ahead on a deal: comprehensive nuclear disarmament in exchange for comprehensive peace, says researchers' position paper. ...
#164309 Obama: US and Israel 'in lockstep' to stop Iran becoming nuclear power
by Ben Quinn in The Observer, 5 February 2012
#164306 Otherwise Occupied / For the sake of his dignity
by Amira Hass in Ha'aretz, 6 February 2012
After over 50 days of hunger strike against what he terms humiliating Shin Bet interrogation techniques, Khader Adnan's health is deteriorating. ...
#164301 Nuclear disarmament for peace
by Akiva Eldar in Ha'aretz, 6 February 2012
If Israel accepts an invitation to the conference in Helsinki, it will have an opportunity to move ahead on a deal: comprehensive nuclear disarmament in exchange for comprehensive peace, says researchers' position paper. ...
#164293 Bedouin community wins reprieve from forcible relocation to Jerusalem garbage dump
by Amira Hass in Ha'aretz, 6 February 2012
Change in plans, sources say, follows a visit to the Jahalin encampment at Khan al-Ahmar in the West Bank last week by Maj. Gen. Eitan Dangot, the coordinator of government activities in the territories. ...
#164278 Proust Among the Nations: From Dreyfus to the Middle East
by Jacqueline Rose, 6 January 2012
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Known for her far-reaching examinations of psychoanalysis, literature, and politics, Jacqueline Rose has in recent years turned her attention to the Israel-Palestine conflict, one of the most enduring and apparently intractable conflicts of our time. In \"Proust among the Nations\", she takes the development of her thought on this crisis a stage further, revealing it as a distinctly Western problem. In a radical rereading o ...
#164277 Iran warns against attacks on its nuclear bases
by Harriet Sherwood in The Observer, 5 February 2012
#164272 Will Canada's Social-Democratic Party be able to Prevent a Leadership Coup?
by Greg Felton in Dissident Voice, 3 February 2012
#164264 Israelis should be afraid of their leaders, not Iran
by Gideon Levy in Ha'aretz, 5 February 2012
For far too long now Israel has been headed by heroes, the kind who don't hesitate to take the country on yet another dangerous, purposeless adventure. We must tell them now, loudly: We are a-f-r-ai-d. ...
#164247 Time to be afraid
by Gideon Levy in Ha'aretz, 5 February 2012
For far too long now Israel has been headed by heroes, the kind who don't hesitate to take the country on yet another dangerous, purposeless adventure. We must tell them now, loudly: We are a-f-r-ai-d. ...