Monday 31 October 2011

Analysis: Quartet on mission impossible in Mideast logjam (Reuters)

Reuters - World powers trying to revive peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians may be flogging a dead horse and their repeated failure is eroding what credibility they have left as mediators.


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Tunisia issues warrant for Arafat's widow (Reuters)

Palestinian President Yasser Arafat and his wife Suha attend the Midnight Mass at Bethlehem's Saint Catherine Church late December 24.Reuters - Tunisian authorities issued an international arrest warrant for Suha Arafat, widow of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, as part of a corruption probe into Tunisia's former first family, the justice ministry said on Monday.



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Palestine becomes member of UNESCO, US cuts funds (AP)

Permanent delegate of the US to UNESCO David Killion, center, reacts as delegates vote on the Palestinian membership, during a session of UNESCO's 36th General Conference, in Paris, Monday Oct. 31, 2011. Palestine became a full member of the U.N. cultural and educational agency Monday, in a highly divisive move that the United States and other opponents say could harm renewed Mideast peace efforts. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)AP - Palestine won its greatest international endorsement yet on Monday, full membership in UNESCO, but the move will cost the agency one-fifth of its funding and some fear will send Mideast peace efforts off a cliff.



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Wednesday 26 October 2011

International envoys seek to restart Mideast talks (AP)

Children affected by an earthquake sit in their make-shift tent in Guvecli, a village 35 kilometres from the eastern Turkish city of Van, October 25, 2011. Israel said on Tuesday it has instructed its military to send help to Turkey to cope with an earthquake that has killed more than 400 and made tens of thousands homeless, following a request from Ankara. Israel first offered help on Sunday, when the earthquake struck, as a humanitarian step also seen as possibly easing strains over Israel's killing of nine Turks on board a Gaza-bound flotilla last year. REUTERS/Umit Bektas (TURKEY - Tags: DISASTER ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY)AP - International mediators will sit down with Palestinian and Israeli officials in Jerusalem on Wednesday in the hope of finding a formula to restart the deadlocked peace talks.



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Saturday 22 October 2011

Arab strongman: With Gadhafi death, an era passes (AP)

FILE - In this photo released Tuesday, April 27, 2004 by the European Commission, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi  walks past a painting at the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels. Libya's information minister said Gadhafi was killed Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011 when revolutionary forces overwhelmed his hometown, Sirte, the last major bastion of resistance two months after the regime fell. (AP Photo/European Commission)AP - He often looked like a comical buffoon, standing before audiences, bedecked in colorful robes, spouting words that most of the world considered nonsense.



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Thursday 20 October 2011

Palestinians plan "other options" if U.N. bid fails (Reuters)

Reuters - Palestinians want the Security Council to decide on their bid for full U.N. membership soon so they can pursue "other options," the Palestinian U.N. envoy said, repeating charges that Washington is procrastinating to avoid a vote.


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Father: Israeli soldier treated harshly by Hamas (AP)

Palestinian militants from the Army of Islam, a radical Islamic group, hold their weapons during their visit to the freed Palestinian prisoners in at Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011. (AP Photo/Ashraf Amra)AP - The father of the Israeli soldier freed this week in a swap with the Islamic militant group Hamas said Thursday that his son "underwent harsh things" while held in Gaza.



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Freed Israeli soldier was mistreated, says father (AP)

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Palestinians to push for UN membership Nov. 11 (AP)

AP - Palestinian diplomats are trying to muster support for a U.N. Security Council vote in New York on Nov. 11 on their bid for membership in the global body, a senior Palestinian official said Thursday.


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Wednesday 19 October 2011

Abbas: Israel Promised to Release More Prisoners (Time.com)

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Time not ripe for Israel

Reuters - The time is not right for meaningful Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said on Wednesday, saying they are only likely to produce a blame game rather than a settlement.


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U.S. delays Bahrain arms sale pending rights probe (Reuters)

Reuters - The Obama administration has told U.S. lawmakers it is delaying a planned $53 million arms sale to Bahrain, a key Gulf ally, pending the outcome of a local investigation into alleged human-rights abuses since an uprising in February.


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Gilad Shalit's release: Did Israel get a bad deal? (The Week)

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Gilad Shalit Release: Israeli Joy Mixed over Prisoner Swap (Time.com)

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Tuesday 18 October 2011

Israeli soldier emerges from 5 years of captivity (AP)

In this photo released by the Israeli Defense Ministry, released Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit, reunites with his father Noam, right at the Tel Nof Air base in southern Israel, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011. Looking thin, weary and dazed, Schalit returned home Tuesday from more than five years of captivity in the Gaza Strip in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners whose joyful families greeted them with massive celebrations. (AP Photo/ Defense Ministry)  NO SALESAP - Gaunt and pale, Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit returned home Tuesday after more than five years in captivity, freed in a lopsided exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners that could greatly complicate Mideast peace prospects and strengthen the Islamic militant Hamas.



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Thousands celebrate freed Palestinian prisoners (AP)

Palestinians celebrate the release of prisoners at the Rafah border crossing in southern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011. The Hamas militant group released an Israeli soldier Tuesday more than five years after his capture, turning him over to Egyptian mediators in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)AP - Tens of thousands of flag-waving Palestinians celebrated the homecoming Tuesday of hundreds of prisoners exchanged for an Israeli soldier, with the crowd and a freed Hamas leader exhorting militants to seize more soldiers for future swaps.



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Monday 17 October 2011

Prisoner swap for captured Israeli soldier underway (Reuters)

Palestinian women walk past a mural depicting captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in Jabalya in the northern Gaza Strip October 15, 2011. REUTERS/Mohammed SalemReuters - A long-awaited prisoner exchange between Israel and Hamas began before dawn on Tuesday when the first of hundreds of Palestinian inmates were bused from their jails to border crossings where they will be swapped for captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.



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Prisoner swap between Israel, Hamas moves ahead (AP)

Israeli Prison Service officers stand guard as a bus transferring Palestinian prisoners, who are to be exchanged for captured Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit arrive to Ktziot prison camp in southern Israel's Negev desert, Sunday, Oct. 16, 2011. The relatives of Israeli victims of Palestinian attacks are waging a charged debate over the release of militants this week in a deal to free the Israeli soldier. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)AP - The elaborate machinery of a prisoner swap deal between two bitter enemies swung into motion early Tuesday, as hundreds of Palestinians and one Israeli soldier prepared to return home in one of the most dramatic recent developments in the otherwise deadlocked Israel-Palestinian conflict.



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Sunday 16 October 2011

Israel moves 430 Palestinians near prisoner swap venue (Reuters)

Palestinian women walk past a mural depicting captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in Jabalya in the northern Gaza Strip October 15, 2011. REUTERS/Mohammed SalemReuters - Israel bused 430 Palestinian prisoners under heavy guard to a holding facility in the Negev desert on Sunday in preparation for them to be exchanged on Tuesday for captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, officials said.



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Israel torn by morality of Shalit prisoner swap (Reuters)

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In Israel, a charged debate over prisoner release (AP)

A Palestinian woman walks in front of a wall painting depicting Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit, who is being held in Gaza since he was captured by Hamas-allied militants in a cross-border raid in 2006, in Jebaliya, northern Gaza Strip, Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011. Hamas officials were hashing out a strategy with Egyptian intelligence officers Saturday how to transfer an Israeli soldier they have held captive for the past five years to Israel, a senior Hamas official said.(AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)AP - The relatives of Israelis killed in Palestinian attacks are waging a charged debate over the release of militants this week in a deal to free an Israeli soldier.



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Saturday 15 October 2011

Israel names prisoners to be freed in swap deal (Reuters)

Reuters - Israel Sunday made public the names of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners it will free in exchange for soldier Gilad Shalit as part of a deal it reached with Hamas.


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Israeli president begins pardoning Palestinians (AP)

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