„FMI pleacă a doua oară ca o soţie infidelă de la bărbat. Ei cred că noi o să întindem picioarele…?” (Preşedintele Vladimir Voronin, 24 iunie 2009) Acum vreo lună ne întrebam, la această rubrică, în ce monedă se va face „stabilizarea” RM: „euro” sau „rublă”? Evenimentele recente ne-au confirmat presupunerile – Moscova a fost mai […]

(Reuters) – Following are developments in the fighting in the Gaza Strip as of 0500 GMT: (* Denotes new or updated items) *GAZA – Palestinian witnesses report heavy fighting east of the city of Gaza where Hamas militants fired anti-tank missiles and mortar bombs at advancing Israeli forces who responded with tank shells and air […]

GAZA (Reuters) – “Abu Salah died, his wife died. Abu Tawfiq died, his son died, his wife also died. Mohammed Ibrahim died, and his mother died. Ishaq died and Nasar died. The wife of Nael Samouni died. Many people died. “There were maybe more than 25 people killed,” said Ahmed Ibrahim Samouni, a 13-year-old Palestinian […]

New York, Asharq Al-Awsat – Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmad Aboul Gheit denied reports that the US intends to tie its aid to Egypt to respect for human rights and greater freedoms, saying that “in all the talks we had with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice we have not talked about this issue in any […]

Source: Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR)  Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Continue Systematic Attacks against Palestinian Civilians and Property in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT)

GAZA (Reuters) – About 30 pro-Fatah Palestinians who fled to Israel after fierce clashes in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip were sent back to the coastal enclave on Sunday and were immediately detained by the Islamist group’s security forces.

(Reuters) – A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas is to begin on Thursday in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian and Egyptian officials said. Following are some key facts about the Hamas-controlled territory. WHERE IS GAZA? * The Gaza Strip is a sliver of towns, villages and farmland at the southeast end of the Mediterranean, 45 km […]

Here are some of Islamist group Hamas’s options in Gaza: TRUCE Hamas has signaled its willingness to reach a ceasefire with Israel that would end rocket launchings by Hamas and other militant organizations. In return, Hamas wants Israel to cease all military strikes in the Gaza Strip and occupied West Bank. It also demands Israel […]

Israel killed 33 Palestinians on Saturday in one of its deepest and deadliest incursions into the Gaza Strip since pulling out in 2005, stoking fears of a broader conflict that could derail renewed U.S.-backed peace talks.

TEHRAN (FNA) – Tehran’s interim Friday Prayers leader Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami stressed that the Israeli regime could never thwart Palestinian Intifada through continued siege on Gaza and massacre of Palestinians

JERUSALEM – The number of people killed in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict dropped sharply in 2007, but human rights abuses in the Gaza Strip and occupied West Bank increased, an Israeli human rights watchdog said on Monday.

RAMALLAH, West Bank – The top Palestinian security official said on Saturday his government was dismantling militant groups, including those connected to President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction.

Hamas will not release a captured Israeli soldier unless Israel meets its demand to free nearly 1,400 Palestinian prisoners, including 350 with life sentences, a leader of the Islamist group in Gaza said on Wednesday.

Israel is considering easing criteria for freeing Palestinian prisoners, a move one Israeli official said on Monday could pave the way for the release of Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouthi.

Israel’s plan to build houses on occupied land near Jerusalem will cloud renewed peace talks, the Palestinian Authority said on Sunday, the day before an international aid conference opens in Paris.

GAZA (Reuters) – An explosion near a funeral procession in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Friday injured least 20 mourners, medical officials said.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President George W. Bush on Thursday condemned the assassination of a Lebanese general and warned Syria against interfering in Lebanon. Brig. Gen. Francois al-Hajj, who was poised to become Lebanon’s army chief, was killed by a car bomb on Wednesday. He was a leading contender to replace army chief Gen. Michel Suleiman, […]

GENEVA (Reuters) – Israeli restrictions have caused a humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the West Bank that is growing worse, leaving hospitals unable to treat the sick and keeping farmers off their land, the International Committee of the Red Cross said.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Plans to rein in Palestinian government spending and boost foreign aid will not be enough to revive the Palestinian economy if Israeli restrictions stay in place, the World Bank said on Thursday.

RIYADH (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia on Tuesday condemned Israel for restarting settlement activity after a promise to stop building on occupied land helped persuade Riyadh to attend U.S.-brokered peace talks in Annapolis last month.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said in a newspaper interview published on Thursday that failure to negotiate a two-state solution with the Palestinians could threaten Israel’s long-term survival.

The United States will host a peace conference in Annapolis, Maryland on Tuesday aimed at relaunching talks on Palestinian statehood after a 7-year break.Here is a timeline of events in Middle East peacemaking.

Most Palestinians are skeptical Tuesday’s Annapolis peace conference can speed the creation of a state of their own but many still hope it may lead to improvements in living conditions and security.

Israel said on Sunday it believed Syria had decided to attend this week’s U.S.-hosted conference about Palestinian statehood.

The portrait of Hussein Saleh al-Me’ari holding a slim iron key and the legend “We will return” hangs on a wall with peeling paint in a tiny room at the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon.

Working in a classroom on the frontline of the conflict between Israel and Hamas Islamists requires a lot more than good teaching skills.

Hamas members of the Palestinian Parliament held a session of the assembly in Gaza on Wednesday in a challenge to the West Bank-based administration of President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah. Meanwhile in

لعلاقات الإنسانية عبارة عن مجموعة من المصالح المشتركة بين البشر تتخللها أحيانا بعض الأزمات وسبب تلك الأزمات عائد إلى الاختلاف الطبيعي فيما بين الناس ولكل إنسان حقه في الاجتهاد والتعبير عن رأيه ضمن شروط الاحترام المتبادل والتنافس الشريف عبر المسيرة الكفاحية الطويلة للشعب الفلسطيني كان هناك ثوابت اجمع الكل على احترامها احد تلك الثوابت كانت […]

PREAMBUL Cui prodest? Cui foloseÅŸte destabilizarea economică ÅŸi politică a micuÅ£ului stat arab mediteranean? ÃŽn urma asasinării la 14 februarie 2005 a omului care a pus capăt unui război dezastruos de 15 ani, crimă care a emoÅ£ionat ÅŸi îndurerat nu numai poporul libanez, ci ÅŸi întreaga comunitate internaÅ£ională (fostul prim – ministru avea numeroÅŸi prieteni […]

Impactul termenului astăzi “Religiile au pătruns atât de mult în ţesătura evenimentelor contemporane încât răspunderile celor ce le reprezintă sunt fără precedent “1 iar dacă religia nu devine astăzi soluÅ£ia, sau parte a soluÅ£iei, ea va fi în mod sigur o problemă. Fundamentalismul religios este un termen cu care astăzi suntem familiarizaÅ£i. Nu trece o zi fără ca ştirile să vorbească despre atrocităţi teroriste comise de “fanatici religioÅŸi” sau “fundamentaliÅŸti” în vreo […]

 CUVANT INAINTE           Filosofia a tratat termenii “adevar” si ”dreptate”, incercand  a le plasa la nivelul ratiunii,  adica de a le defini intr-un mod logic si ordonat asa cum le gasim mereu in scrierile ce expun gandirea greaca. Platon a poiectat lumea rationala creand fraza dupa fraza, idee dupa idee. Lumea insa nu a putut […]

– التفاهمات التي تلت أوسلو هي تفاهات – لا أريد أن أكون رئيساً – لايمكن الوثوق بالولايات المتحدة الأمريكية -دعمت ترشيح أبو مازن في منصب رئيس السلطة الوطنية منعاً للفتنة – أوسلو ماتت وانتهت – لا يحق للقدوة أن يقيل أو يعين طبقاً للصلاحيات التي قبلتها السلطة – المؤتمر السادس لحركة فتح لن يعقد في […]

In contextul luptei impotriva terorismului, declarata de administratia Americana, Israelul in mod insistent a cerut Autoritatii Palestiniene dezarmarea organizatiilor radicale printer care si Hamas. Hamas avand strategia politica bine pusa la punct si argumentata logic, fiind alimentata si de esecul negocierilor purtate pe durata a 14 ani, de catre autoritatea palestiniana cu Israelul, a repurtat […]