Despite Israeli condemnation, Vatican-Palestine treaty goes into effect
The Vatican announced that “the Holy See and the State of Palestine have notified each other that the procedural requirements for its entry into force have been fulfilled”
Greek parliament calls on government to recognize a Palestinian state
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas looked on Tuesday as the nonbinding resolution passed in Athens
Greek parliament set to recognize Palestinian statehood
Greece’s parliament is scheduled to vote in favour of recognizing Palestinian statehood on Dec. 22
Palestinian activist calls BDS ‘a stupid activity’
Palestinian human rights activist Bassem Eid offers students an unlikely perspective
In European coverage of Israel, confusion over who is attacking whom
critics of European media say its misleading context distorts public perceptions of the recent upsurge in violence in the region, mostly to Israel’s disadvantage
Fatah cell claims responsibility for murder of Israeli couple
A cell affiliated with Fatah’s armed wing assumed responsibility for the murder of an Israeli couple near the West Bank settlement of Itamar.
The Abdel Qader al-Husseini Brigades, a group affiliated with Fatah’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, announced on Friday that its men on Thursday night opened fire on the car of Eitam and Naama Henkin, a couple in their thirties, while they were driving home with four of their six children, aged four months to nine, from Hebron. The children were not wounded in the attack.
The ‘Golden Age’ narrative is bad history
In the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, history is arguably the most powerful element. Historical narratives influence the way each side understands the environment in which the conflict occurs, and determine how each side fits day-to-day realities – like flotillas and checkpoints – into its own collective schema.
United Church strengthens call to end Israeli occupation
The United Church of Canada’s general council voted last week to strengthen its opposition to what it calls Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian land, but it voted down a controversial proposal to end the church’s support of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
COVER STORY: Is religious extremism a threat in Canada?
After the murder of a Palestinian baby and his father at the hands of arsonists widely believed to be extremist Jewish settlers, many in the international Jewish community are still reeling, rushing to distance themselves from the ultra-right-wing agenda of the purported assailants, the so-called “hilltop youth,” a radicalized group known for flouting Israeli law and plotting violent attacks against Palestinians and Christian religious sites.
Will we see an Israeli-Cuban rapprochement?
Ever since Cuba’s Fidel Castro decided to unilaterally sever relations with Israel in 1973 – just days after the end of the Yom Kippur War – the two countries have, for the most part, remained cool to each other.