OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (AP) — The “Quartet” of international Mideast mediators stepped into the void, signalling it would invite Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for talks in Cairo, after a summit was called off at the last minute.
Read More »Blast rocks area near Beirut
A BOMB WENT off near a Christian town north of Beirut on Thursday, in the latest string of explosions that have shaken Lebanon since fighting erupted between army troops and Islamists in a northern refugee camp three weeks ago.
Read More »In south Lebanon, resistance from cradle to grave
On the leeward side of Ait al-Shaab, a village in south Lebanon, the war between Hizbullah and Israel caused many sacrifices. Months later, both tears and triumph are plentiful.
Read More »Rival Palestinian factions clash in Gaza, one dead
GAZA, June 7 (Reuters) – Palestinian gunmen from the dominant Islamist Hamas faction killed a member of rival Fatah on Thursday, witnesses and hospital officials said, in the worst flare-up of street fighting in almost three weeks.
Read More »Inculcating kindergarten children with radical Islamic ideology and the culture of anti-Israel terrorism
Indoctrination at an end of the year kindergarten party 1. On May 31, 2007, Hamas’s Al-Aqsa TV satellite channel broadcast the end of the year party held for the 29 th class of kindergartens belonging to the Al-Mujamma’ al-Islami Islamic society, a part of Hamas’ social infrastructure ( da’wah ) …
Read More »Palestinian force deploys in Lebanon’s refugee camp
AIN AL HILWEH CAMP (AP) — A Palestinian security force fanned out in two neighbourhoods of this refugee camp in southern Lebanon Wednesday to prevent a renewal of clashes between Islamists and Lebanese troops that have so far claimed three lives.
Read More »Israel does not want war with Syria — Olmert
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (Reuters) — Prime Minister Ehud Olmert sought to calm speculation in Israel that war with Syria could erupt soon, saying on Wednesday he wanted peace with Damascus and to avoid any miscalculations that could lead to hostilities.
Read More »US, Israel say time not ripe for talks with Syria
WASHINGTON (AFP) — The United States and Israel said after high-level talks here Wednesday that the time might not be ripe for the Jewish state to resume peace talks with arch-rival Syria.
Read More »Gov’t awaits clarification on alleged Jerusalem land sale
AMMAN — The government on Wednesday said it has asked the Greek Orthodox patriarch of Jerusalem to clarify his position on “documented evidence†that the patriarchate was involved in at least 12 transactions to sell or lease church property.
Read More »Beirut ghost town on eve of summer season, again
BEIRUT — “Gone fishing” says the notice on the door of a club in a usually bustling Beirut bar district which has been deserted since bomb attacks last week.
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