US Policy is Not Working Khaleej Times Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is asking for the Israeli-Palestinian Peace talks to resume. She is back after her recent trip to the region where she spoke to many audiences and met with several government officials. While her visit to the Arab nations raised some hope, there remains a high degr...
Truth and Justice in Rwanda The New York Times | Regarding the news article "Sarkozy acknowledges 'grave errors' on Rwanda" (Feb. 26): To survivors of the genocide in Rwanda and to human rights advocates, the oblique and morally obtuse statement from President Nicolas Sarkozy of France is deeply offensive. | France did not merely make errors of ...
Families fight 'racist' Israeli citizenship law BBC News By Heather Sharp | BBC News, Jerusalem | "To leave my children, I would die. I couldn't do it," says Lana Khatib. | Five years ago, Israel's controversial citizenship law marred her first year of marriage and still looms large over everythi...
US Policy is Not Working Khaleej Times Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is asking for the Israeli-Palestinian Peace talks to resume. She is back after her recent trip to the region where she spoke to many audiences and met with several government officials. While her visit to the Arab n...
Plan to change war crimes law delayed by general election The Guardian | Straw to seek views on arrest of foreign politicians although Israel is concerned about postponed legislation | A British court issued an arrest warrant for Tzipi Livni on war crimes charges but withdrew it on finding she had cancelled a planned tr...
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HRW: Israel 'failed' to probe Gaza war crimes Middle East Online TEL AVIV - Human Rights Watch said on Sunday that Israel has failed to properly investigate alleged crimes committed during last winter's devastating Gaza war as demanded by the Un...
UN chief can't judge if Gaza probes are 'credible' The News & Observer | UNITED NATIONS -- The U.N. secretary-general reported Thursday night he was uncertain whether Israel or the Palestinians had met U.N. demands to undertake "credible" investigatio...
Israel denies Gaza war crimes in report to UN The Guardian | Israel insists troops did not violate international law despite 'operational lapses and errors' | An Israeli air strike on Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, during the January 2...
Gaza court extends British journalist's detention Khaleej Times GAZA - A Palestinian court on Monday extended by 15 days the detention of a British journalist arrested by Hamas police in the Gaza Strip last month on suspicion of collaborating with Israel's security services. | Paul Martin, a freelance journalist,...
Hamas court in Gaza extends detention of British journalist m&c | Gaza City - A military court run by the Islamist Hamas movement in Gaza extended on Monday the detention of British journalist Paul Martin for another 15 days. | Martin had arrived in Gaza in February to give evidence in the trial of a Palestinian ...
UN gives Gaza investigations into war crimes 5 extra months The Boston Globe | UNITED NATIONS - The UN General Assembly voted yesterday to give Israel and the Palestinians an additional five months to conduct independent investigations of alleged war crimes during last year's conflict in Gaza and warned of possible "further a...
Israel/Gaza: General Assembly Presses for War Justice Human Rights | (New York) - Today's United Nations General Assembly resolution calling for impartial Gaza war crimes investigations is an important step toward justice for all civilian victims of last year's conflict, Human Rights Watch said. A majority of UN m...
Berlusconi: a law unto himself The Guardian | Last week, while Silvio Berlusconi and seven of his ministers were on a state visit to Israel and workers and trade unionists from Sardinia gathered noisily outside Palazzo Chigi protesting against plans to close their factory, the House of Deputies debated and approved yet another new law to protect the prime minister and his ministers from cour...
US Policy is Not Working Khaleej Times Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is asking for the Israeli-Palestinian Peace talks to resume. She is back after her recent trip to the region where she spoke to many audiences and met with several government officials. While her visit to the Arab nations raised some hope, there remains a high degree of skepticism based on US blind support ...
