Topic - Palestine

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  PIPES: Peculiar proliferation of Palestine refugees

  Of all the issues that drive the Arab-Israeli conflict, none is more central, malign, primal, enduring, emotional and complex than the status of those people known as Palestine refugees. The origins of this unique case, notes Nitza Nachmias of Tel Aviv University, goes back to Count Folke Bernadotte, the United Nations Security Council's mediator.

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  Iran urges Hamas to continue fight against Israel

  Iran's leaders urged the Hamas prime minister of Gaza to continue the Islamic militant group's resistance against Israel and promised support, state TV reported on Sunday.

• Iran's leaders urge Hamas to not let up resisting Israel

  Iran's leaders urged the Hamas prime minister of Gaza to continue the Islamic militant group's resistance against Israel and promised support, state TV reported Sunday.

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  GAFFNEY: Free speech - for some

  According to the Council on Ameri- can Islamic Relations (CAIR), there is a grave threat to America that must be suppressed at all costs. The threat is that Lt. Gen. William G. "Jerry" Boykin might be allowed to exercise his constitutionally guaranteed right to free speech.

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  Abbas: Palestinian-Israeli talks over

  A low-level dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians about a future border has ended without any breakthrough, the Palestinian president said Wednesday, reflecting the impasse plaguing the negotiations for at least three years.

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  Palestinians to renew efforts for bid to U.N.

  Palestinian officials say that they will resume their effort to gain U.N. membership, and that they could launch a nonviolent third intifada because they see no chance of reaching a peace deal with the current Israeli government.

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  Jordan-backed talks may help Palestinian leader

  After this week's attempt to restart Mideast peace talks, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas now is caught between undesirable choices.

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  FIELDS: Newt nixes revisionist history

  Newt Gingrich is a fat target for everyone - so easy to hit. He makes the others in the race jump up and down and sometimes leap sideways, like it or not. He shakes things up. He forces voters to look differently at things they thought they already understood, lulled by habit rather than thought. That may not be the ultimate role for a leader of the Western world, but for now, he's the pause that refreshes.

• LETTER TO THE EDITOR: 'Palestine' politically correct but inaccurate

  While too politically incorrect for the left to swallow, White House hopeful New Gingrich's recent comments on the Palestinian people are historically accurate.

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  Palestinians' yule statehood gambit

  At Christmastime, the world looks to Jesus' traditional birthplace of Bethlehem, and this year the Palestinians hope to use some of that attention to boost their quest for independence.

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  The Pretender? Jackson Browne not the only one cashing in on Occupy Wall Street

  Jackson Browne is hardly alone in seizing the opportunity that lies in Occupation. The Occupy Wall Street movement, a font of outrage and resistance against big business, commercialism and the wealthy, has nearly from the beginning managed to attract elements of all those things.

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  Documentary explores unsolved case of Israeli attache's death

  On a summer night nearly four decades ago, Israeli military attache Joseph Alon was shot five times in the driveway of his Chevy Chase home, and one of the bullets pierced his heart. For his family, the hole remains.

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  Unsolved mystery: Who shot Israeli military attache Joseph Alon outside home in D.C. suburb?

  On a warm summer night nearly four decades ago, Israeli military attache Joseph Alon was shot five times in the driveway of his Chevy Chase, Md., home, one of the bullets piercing his heart. For his family, the hole remains.

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  Palestinian PM: Israeli sanctions starting to bite

  Palestinian officials said Sunday they won't be able to pay upcoming public-sector salaries that support nearly one-third of Palestinian families in the West Bank and Gaza, the clearest sign yet that Israeli economic sanctions are starting to bite.

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  Palestine becomes member of UNESCO

  Palestine became a full member of UNESCO on Monday in a highly divisive breakthrough that will cost the agency a fifth of its budget and that the U.S. and other opponents say could harm renewed Mideast peace efforts.

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