Tag: The Guardian
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A recipe for resentment
Ahmad Samih Khalidi | The Guardian 26 May 2009 The Obama administration is gearing up for its impending and possibly decisive moves towards relaunching the Middle East peace process, with a series of consultations with Arab leaders, including the Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, later this week. After meeting with Barack Obama in Washington last week,…
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Why Palestinians are calling for a boycott of Israeli universities
Amjad Barham | The Guardian 26 May 2009 Palestinian academics have been heartened by the outpouring of solidarity with our people on the part of British academics and students – the latter attested to by the creative “student occupation movement” in the wake of the brutal Israeli war against the Palestinian people in Gaza last…
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Palestinian patients ‘interrogated before leaving Gaza for treatment’
Rory McCarthy | The Guardian 4 May 2009 An Israeli medical human rights group said today that an increasing number of Palestinian patients from Gaza were being interrogated by Israeli security services before being allowed to leave the strip for treatment. Physicians for Human Rights-Israel said at least 438 patients had been summoned for interrogation…
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End Palestinian demolitions in Jerusalem, UN tells Israel
Rory McCarthy | The Guardian 1 May 2009 The United Nations has called on Israel to end its programme of demolishing homes in east Jerusalem and tackle a mounting housing crisis for Palestinians in the city. Dozens of Palestinian homes in east Jerusalem are demolished each year because they do not have planning permits. Critics…
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Jerusalem’s mayor defends demolition of houses in Arab area
Rory McCarthy | The Guardian 23 April 2009 Israel’s mayor of Jerusalem defended the demolition of houses in the Arab east of the city today and insisted Jerusalem could not be a future capital of a Palestinian state. Nir Barkat, a secular businessman elected as mayor five months ago, rejected international criticism of demolitions and…