US-MIDEAST: Baseball Team Urged to Cut Ties with Israeli Group
By Eli Clifton
WASHINGTON - A coalition of 11 U.S., Israeli and Palestinian groups are calling on the New York Mets baseball team to cancel a fundraiser by the "violent and racist" Israeli Hebron Fund which is scheduled to be held at the Mets' stadium, Citi Field, on Nov. 21.
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POLITICS-US: Right Seizes on Ft. Hood Killings as "Islamic Terror"
By Eli Clifton
WASHINGTON - Senior military and Barack Obama administration officials have been on a full-court press to preempt an anti-Muslim backlash since the shooting spree by a Muslim soldier at Fort Hood, Texas, but right-wing pundits have wasted no time in characterising Major Nidal Malik Hasan's actions as an act of terrorism by a radical Islamic extremist.
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MIDEAST: Gaza Graduates Search for Vitamin W
By Mohammed Omer
THE HAGUE - "We fast a long time," says Gaza graduate Mona Ismail, 23. "Only to break our fast on a piece of onion."
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MIDEAST: New Face of Palestine, Now Showing
By Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler
JERUSALEM - Other than to movie aficionados, the refurbishing of an old cinema hall is no cause for great excitement.
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RIGHTS: Iraqi Minorities Dying Over Turf War
By Chryso D'Angelo
NEW YORK - Iraqi minority groups are caught up in a power struggle between the country's Arab-dominated central government and the Kurdish-controlled regional government over the oil-rich Nineveh province - and they are paying with their lives, according Human Rights Watch.
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MIDEAST: The 'Unknown' Fight the Illegal
By Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler
OCCUPIED EAST JERUSALEM - "Make sure your father gets this," the municipal inspector tells a ten-year-old boy at the gate of the concrete house in an alleyway in the Al-Bustan quarter of Silwan, a Palestinian neighbourhood right under the shadow of the walled Old City.
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MIDEAST: Lessons from the Karine A -Déjà Vu All Over Again
Analysis by Marsha B. Cohen
WASHINGTON - As Israeli Defence Forces munitions experts sorted through 300 tonnes of weapons found on a German-owned, Cypriot-operated cargo ship flying the Antiguan flag, Israeli politicians were sifting through the various talking points that could be offloaded from the vessel.
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MIDEAST: Abbas Produces a Dubious Twist
Analysis by Mel Frykberg
RAMALLAH - U.S. and Israeli failure to take either Palestinian rights or Israeli settlement expansion seriously has placed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and his Palestinian Authority (PA) in an untenable situation, which could seriously damage peace prospects.
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POLITICS: U.N. Affirms Israeli-Hamas War Crimes Report
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - A 575-page blistering report by Justice Richard Goldstone detailing war crimes in Gaza last December is refusing to die despite an aggressive Israeli smear campaign to kill it.
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US-SYRIA: Diplomatic Thaw Just Penetrating the Surface
Analysis by Ellen Massey
WASHINGTON - Four months ago, the Barack Obama administration announced that it would appoint an ambassador to Syria, ending a four-year freeze on diplomatic relations between the two countries.
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