Barack Obama’s pledge on June 11th to AIPAC that Jerusalem should be Israel’s undivided capital has angered Palestinian officials. President Mahmoud Abbas made a statement that Obama’s pledge is “totally rejected,” while Saeb Erekat, an Abbas aide, said that Palestinian negotiators would continue to insist upon East Jerusalem as the Palestinian capital. Incidentally, the United […]
Desperate Palestinians Explode Wall and Flood Into Egypt
Tens of thousands of Palestinians today poured into Egypt from Gaza after militants blew up part of the wall between the two territories in protest at an Israeli blockade. On foot, in cars or riding donkey carts, Gazans burst into the Egyptian border town of Rafah to buy cigarettes, plastic bottles of fuel and other […]
Palestinians Flood Into Egypt After Blowing Up Border Wall
Tens of thousands of Palestinians today poured into Egypt from Gaza after militants blew up part of the wall between the two territories in protest at an Israeli blockade. On foot, in cars or riding donkey carts, Gazans burst into the Egyptian border town of Rafah to buy cigarettes, plastic bottles of fuel and other […]
68 Countries Pledge Big Aid Package For Palestinians
Officials from 68 countries in Paris have pledged a multi-billion dollar aid package for Palestinians, in the biggest such meetig for a decade. To help set up a viable Palesinian State, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, wants $56 billion by 2010. He warned the one-day donors’ summit that Palestinians are facing a ” total catastrophe” and […]
Palestinians Want Help More Than Handouts in Paris
Suleiman Farhan is halfway through his farming year but has already done enough accounting to know he’ll find himself heavily in debt by next summer. Farhan, 40, a Palestinian farmer in the village of Jiftlik, in the north of the occupied West Bank, was up before dawn on Saturday to harvest a crop of sweet, […]
Mideast Conference: Betrayal of Palestinians: Al-Zawahiri
CAIRO: Al-Qaida’s deputy leader denounced last month’s Mideast peace conference in Annapolis, as a "betrayal" of Palestinians in a new audio message posted Friday on an Islamic militant Web site. It was the first reaction by the terrorist network to the Mideast conference, sponsored by President Bush and attended by key Arab countries, including Saudi […]
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