Peace and Justice | Equality in the Middle East

2010-09-03: Headlines

msnbc.com: First Read: Mark Murray writes: Todays top news: 2010-09-03
What happened? Was it Palin (who backed Miller and has feuded with Murkowski)? Was it the Tea Party (elements of which were in the race early and often -- the Our Country Deserves Better PAC/TeaPartyExpress.org spent over $500,000 on the race in the last month)? Is it part of the anti-Washington, anti-establishment sentiment that seems to have popped up elsewhere this year?
Reuters Blogs: The US war in Iraq is over. Who won? 2010-09-03
Early in his tenure, with his prestige riding much higher at home and in the Muslim world than it is now, Obama might have had a chance to tackle Iran the way Richard Nixon dealt with China and strike a grand bargain, putting all the differences between the two countries on the table and resolve them as a package. That possibility is probably gone.
Kansas City infoZine: Washingtons Mideast Talks 2010-09-03
Keywords: by Failing to Insist on Guiding Principles and a Timeline, the Obama Administration Sets Itself Up for Another Failed Round of Talks.
AOL News: Abbas Flies Home to Violent Opposition 2010-09-03
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San Angelo Standard Times: Top am stories, 09/03 2010-09-03
BUXTON, N.C. €” First light reveals some flooding on the narrow vacation islands of North Carolina€™s Outer Banks after Hurricane Earl passed in the night. The storm€™s powerful gusts and driving rains are being felt in southeastern Virginia. While the National Hurricane says weakening is forecast, Earl is expected to remain a large hurricane as it approaches southern New England.
New York Times: Explosion at Shiite Protest Kills at Least 40 in Pakistan 2010-09-03
The explosion, two days after an other attack, led to further protests as grieving mourners went on rampage, clashing with the police and setting fire to vehicles and motorcycles parked nearby.

2010-09-02: Headlines

CRIENGLISH.com: CRI Hourly News (updated at 14:00 2010/09/02) 2010-09-02
3 Bomb Attack in Pakistan Kill 25 and Wound 150 Others25 people have been killed in Pakistan after three bombs exploded at a Shiite procession in the eastern city of Lahore and 150 have been left wounded.The bombs exploded at three separate sites as 35,000 Shiites took to the street in a traditional mourning procession.Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani condemned the incident, saying the attackers would not escape justice.
Socialist Worker Online: Peace talks on Israels terms 2010-09-02
WHY DID the U.S. and Israel push for this new round of talks? | Mitchell would go to Jerusalem and sit with the Israelis, then he would go to Ramallah and sit with the Palestinians, and he would try to see if he could bring the two together. There were no results and nothing to really brag about. So the U.S. decided that it was necessary to change the approach, and it came up with the idea of direct negotiations.
kmph.com: KMPH Fox 26 Central San Joaquin Valley News Source in Fresno, California Entertainment, News, Sports and Weather | AP Top News at 2:10 a.m. EDT -Thursday, September 2, 2010 2010-09-02
Keywords: serve Chairman Ben Bernanke is set to appear before a panel investigating the financial crisis to give his take on the meltdown and his views on potential systemwide risks posed by large financial institutions.

2010-09-01: Headlines

The Guardian: A Middle East peace that wreaks havoc 2010-09-01
The aim is a two-state settlement, which will supposedly end the conflict. The parameters are familiar from past (and, failed) peace proposals, and grossly unfair to the Palestinians. Historic Palestine will be partitioned roughly along the 1967 lines into a Jewish state on 78% of the land, plus an undefined area of the West Bank also to become Israeli, and a Palestinian state on the remainder €“ less than 20%.
The Spokesman Review: Family seeks answers in security guards death 2010-09-01
Eight years ago, Bassam Al Hayek left a little town near Bethlehem to start a new life away from the political and religious crossfire. He and his wife settled in Spokane, far away from the Middle East violence he saw as an Arab Christian in the Palestinian territories.
Inside Higher Ed: Laying a Liberal Arts Foundation, On Shaky Ground 2010-09-01
Where there€™s volatility, says Susan Gillespie, there€™s also opportunity. | Gillespie is vice president of special global initiatives and director of the Institute for International Liberal Education at Bard College, in the Hudson River Valley of New York. Whereas other U.S.
jwire.com.au: Christians asked to reconsider boycott 2010-09-01
Australia€™s oldest and most active interfaith body has called on Christians to €œreconsider€ a planned boycott of goods produced by Israeli settlements. | The Australian Council of Christians and Jews (ACCJ) President William Clancy said recent resolutions by the National Council of Churches (NCCA)
Ottawa Citizen: Goodbye Iraq 2010-09-01
Division of Canwest Publishing Inc. | VIA Rail tree-cutting angers Ottawa residents whose... | Look just beyond the homes of Pineglen Crescent, and you could swear a train had run through there. | The mass arrests at the G20 protests in Toronto look no less excessive in hindsight. Indeed, as more charges are dropped, it becomes ever more clear that hundreds of people were arrested with absolutely...

2010-08-31: Headlines

St. Louis Globe-Democrat: The Almanac -- weekly 2010-08-31
The weekly UPI Almanac package for Sept. 6-12, 2010.
independent.co.uk: INM: Independent Palestine is a possibility by 2011, says PM 2010-08-31
Mr Fayyad said the direct negotiations due to open in Washington on Thursday after a dinner summit hosted by President Barack Obama would be crucial in answering key questions about the stance of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Haaretz: Educating toward indoctrination 2010-08-31
The frequent changes the Education Ministry makes to school curricula share one common denominator. Each smells of the same kind of crass, shallow patriotism that glosses over any complicated issue, forcing students to swallow the same rote, sanitized version of the multifaceted, paradoxical Israeli story and silences all critical thought.
The Peoples Voice: Review by Jim Miles 2010-08-31
Karsh is both right… | His approach and methodology of trying to reconstruct the arguments around the nakba are horribly wrong in several ways. | Demographics - as always. | Deir Yassin - a unique tragedy.
Alternative Information Center: Connie Hackbarth: Blue and White: Where Uri Avnery has it Wrong 2010-08-31
Once again Uri Avnery is using his blog to criticize the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel. Under the title Red and Green, Avnery comments on the long and interesting program recently broadcast on Israeli Channel 10 on the growing international isolation of Israel.