Tag: Palestinians

National Security

AP Interview: Arab League chief backs peace talks

HAMZA HENDAWILAMIA RADI · April 10, 2014 6:09 pm

Secretary of State John Kerry and Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liebermann, walks towards the Treaty Room, Wednesday, April 9, 2014, at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

John Kerry can’t just decide to ‘solve’ the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Larry Elder · April 10, 2014 4:00 am

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, right, listens to his chief negotiator Saeb Erekat during a meeting with Arab foreign ministers requested by Abbas at the League's headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, April 9, 2014. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

National Security

Israeli ministers to stop meeting Palestinians

Daniel Estrin · April 9, 2014 6:10 pm

Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on March 26 at the Palestinian Ambassador's Residence in Amman, Jordan. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

John Kerry’s fantasy ‘peace process’

Cal Thomas · April 9, 2014 4:00 am

People pass the New York Times building in New York. (AP/Richard Drew)

The New York Times has an Israel problem

Paul Miller · April 9, 2014 4:00 am

A masked Palestinian uses a slingshot to hurl stones toward Israeli soldiers during a protest calling for the release of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails, outside Ofer, an Israeli military prison near the West Bank city of Ramallah, Friday, April 4, 2014. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Palestinians ready to widen global recognition bid

Karin Laub · April 7, 2014 6:14 pm

FILE - In this August 2, 2013, file photo, Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah speaks during a rally to mark Jerusalem day, or Al-Quds day, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon. The government of Syrian President Bashar Assad is no longer in danger of falling, Nasrallah, the leader of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group, said in interview with Lebanon's daily As-Safir newspaper published Sunday, April 6, 2014. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Clashes in south Lebanon Palestinian camp kill 7

Zeina Karam · April 7, 2014 12:13 pm

In this Sunday, April 6, 2014 photo, a Palestinian woman who will become a part of the elite Presidential Guard stands during a training, in Jericho, West Bank. Twenty-five Palestinian women are set to become the first female members of the Presidential Guards, a Palestinian elite force of 2,600 men. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

First women joining Palestinian commando unit

KARIN LAUBMOHAMMED DARAGHMEH · April 7, 2014 6:16 am

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting in his office in Jerusalem, Sunday. Speaking at a weekly Cabinet meeting Sunday Netanyahu said the Palestinians have lots to lose by taking unilateral steps and will be answered in kind by Israel. Last week, the Palestinians renewed their push for membership in United Nations agencies. (AP Photo/Gali Tibbon)

National Security

Israeli-Palestinian peace talks continue despite serious setbacks

Susan Crabtree · April 7, 2014 4:00 am

In this Thursday, April 3, 2014 photo, Palestinian Esmat Mansour, a former prisoner who was released after 20 years in Israeli jail, teaches Hebrew to students at a school in the village of Taybeh, near the West Bank city of Ramallah. Mansour was 16 when, in October 1993, he helped three older teens stab to death an Israeli man. Mansour said the time in Israeli prison changed him. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Ex-Palestinian prisoner teaches Hebrew, tolerance

KARIN LAUBMOHAMMED DARAGHMEH · April 6, 2014 7:26 pm

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting in his office in Jerusalem, Sunday, April 6, 2014. Speaking at a weekly Cabinet meeting Sunday Netanyahu said the Palestinians have lots to lose by taking unilateral steps and will be answered in kind by Israel. Last week, the Palestinians renewed their push for membership in United Nations agencies. (AP Photo/Gali Tibbon, Pool)

Israel leader: Will respond to Palestinian UN move

Washington Examiner · April 6, 2014 11:53 am

A masked Palestinian takes cover during a protest calling for the release of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails, outside Ofer, an Israeli military prison near the West Bank city of Ramallah, Friday, April 4, 2014. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Palestinians say they don’t want Kerry to fail

Mohammed Daraghmeh · April 4, 2014 5:35 pm