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  • 30 Jan 2012
    Alarm at increased settler attacks against Palestinian villages

    Asira Al-Qibliya residents are experiencing increased, organized attacks by Jewish settlers on their West Bank village, say Ecumenical accompaniers.

  • 28 Jan 2012
    New year, new direction in the Middle East?

    Can we expect 2012 to be as monumentally eventful in the Middle East as 2011? Perhaps even more so.

  • 21 Jan 2012
    What hope and promise for Palestine?

    Earlier this week, a meeting took place at Lambeth Palace in London between key representatives from the Church of England, the Catholic Church as well as the Church of Scotland on the one hand and the Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and his delegation on the other.

  • 12 Jan 2012
    From Vietnam to Palestine: A crime of silence?

    Palestine remains politically inert despite the artificial fireworks of a UN application for statehood or membership of UNESCO, observes Dr Harry Hagopian. So why is Palestine faced with such a thunderous crime of silence? After all, over the past year, we have been witnessing popular uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa region. Where is the disconnect here?

  • 1 Dec 2011
    Neither Abbas nor Mashal can unite the Palestinian people

    Palestinian leaders Mahmoud Abbas and Khaled Mashal met in Cairo recently to try to resolve their differences. The outcome is not totally clear yet, says commentator Ghassan Michel Rubeiz. But what is certain is that it will take more than handshaking and an embrace for Palestinians to settle their deep divisions.

  • 24 Nov 2011
    Can Palestinian leaders unite around a common vision?

    Unity for the Palestinians will be achieved only when the people collectively build a common vision on how to tackle the occupation, says Ghassan Rubeiz, noting the encouraging moves towards nonviolence at the grassroots and among some key protagonists.

  • 22 Nov 2011
    Ecumenical group highlights damage caused by Israeli house demolitions

    An Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI) visit to Imneizil has seen at first-hand the impact of Israeli house demolitions.

  • 16 Nov 2011
    Palestinian 'freedom riders' dragged off bus to Jerusalem

    Palestinian activists describing themselves as 'freedom riders' have been dragged by police off an Israeli bus they planned to ride into Jerusalem.

  • 14 Oct 2011
    Focus on Middle East Quartet policy, rather than Tony Blair

    As discussions over the future of Israel and Palestine resumes in Brussels this weekend, attention has once again turned towards the role of the Quartet on the Middle East, the collectivity of nations and international and supranational bodies involved in mediating the peace process in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

  • 20 Sep 2011
    Palestinians, the UN and the quest for statehood

    Palestinian authorities are bidding to gain international recognition of Statehood at the United Nations in New York. The US favours direct negotiations between Israel and Palestine and has already expressed serious reservations with Secretary of State Clinton saying "the route [to peace] lies in Jerusalem and Ramallah not in New York".