Tag: Palestine

A 25-year-old Palestinian university student was arrested by the Palestinian police for maintaining an anti-Islam blog and faces the possibility of life in prison.

Excerpt from a memoir of life in an Israeli Kibbutz with discussion of the author’s growing disillusionment with Labour Zionism. “What I did, however, come quite quickly to understand if not openly acknowledge was just how limited the kibbutz and its members really were. The mere fact of collective self-government, or egalitarian distribution of consumer durables, does not make you either more sophisticated or more tolerant of others. Indeed, to the extent that it contributes to an extraordinary smugness of self-regard, it actually reinforces the worst kind of ethnic solipsism.”

The Islamist group Hamas is masterminding efforts to have senior Israeli leaders arrested for alleged war crimes when they visit European countries including Britain, a top Hamas official involved in the effort has told The Times. The claim comes amid continuing diplomatic fallout after a British arrest warrant was issued last week against Tzipi Livni, who served as Foreign Minister during Israel’s Gaza offensive last winter.

Israelis and Palestinians living in Jerusalem and the West Bank share their hopes and fears for the future.

Abdel-Latif Moussa, the leader of a radical Islamist group in the Gaza Strip, has been killed during a gun battle with security forces that killed 22 people. The fighting erupted on Friday night when Hamas security men surrounded a mosque in the southern Gaza town of Rafah on the Egypt border where about 100 members of Jund Ansar Allah, or the Soldiers of the Companions of God, were hiding out.