Read more Palestine stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/1205/palestine.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 14:24:13 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74598/israel-hamas-near-deal-for-soldiers-release.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIsraeli and Hamas officials have confirmed that substantial progress has been made in negotiations for the release of an Israeli soldier captured during the 2006 Gaza war. Israel reportedly approved the release of at least 70 prisoners among the 450 Hamas is seeking for the return of the young staff-sergeant...http://www.newser.com/story/74598/israel-hamas-near-deal-for-soldiers-release.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 23 Nov 2009 1:18:16 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73401/palestinians-abbas-may-not-seek-reelection.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPalestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will not seek reelection next year, insiders say. Abbas has seen his credibility with Palestinians damaged during peace negotiations with the US and Israel, now stalled. “The president insists on not running in the upcoming election,” an official tells the Guardian , though some believe the move...http://www.newser.com/story/73401/palestinians-abbas-may-not-seek-reelection.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 05 Nov 2009 10:16:40 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/72125/lay-off-israel-human-rights-watch-founder.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagHuman Rights Watch has lost its way, writes founder and chairman emeritus Robert L. Bernstein. The once even-handed organization has launched a jeremiad against Israel—a liberal democracy with a “vibrant free press”—while effectively ignoring abuses in closed, autocratic societies in the region it was created to address. Democracies...http://www.newser.com/story/72125/lay-off-israel-human-rights-watch-founder.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 20 Oct 2009 9:42:27 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/71874/mideast-peace-would-justify-obamas-nobel.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWith his Nobel Prize, President Obama has once again been celebrated and rewarded for who he’s not (George W. Bush) and who he might be. Although Obama’s preferred foreign policy MO—patient diplomacy on many fronts—doesn’t “lend itself to high drama,” that's exactly what he needs to actually earn...http://www.newser.com/story/71874/mideast-peace-would-justify-obamas-nobel.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 16 Oct 2009 12:13:32 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/71660/palestine-says-hope-in-obama-evaporated.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Palestinian president's political party says all hopes in the Obama administration have "evaporated," accusing the White House of caving to pressure from the pro-Israel lobby and backing off a demand to freeze Jewish settlement. Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah Party also accused the US of failing to set a clear agenda...http://www.newser.com/story/71660/palestine-says-hope-in-obama-evaporated.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 14 Oct 2009 8:36:16 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/71212/gaza-film-exposes-deadly-breast-cancer-taboos.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA heart-wrenching Gaza cartoon inspired by a real-life case follows the story of a young Palestinian woman in a refugee camp who dies of breast cancer because of cultural squeamishness about female bodies and difficulty obtaining health care. One doctor in the animated film Fatenah tells the woman, who's worried...http://www.newser.com/story/71212/gaza-film-exposes-deadly-breast-cancer-taboos.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 08 Oct 2009 9:12:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/66967/us-teens-join-hardline-israeli-settlers.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagYoung Americans are joining a movement of hardline Jewish settlers who vow to battle both the Israeli army and Palestinian militants to protect West Bank settlements, Matt McAllester writes in Details . Tired of pleading and rock-throwing, they say they plan to fight fire with fire, shooting at Israeli troops, if...http://www.newser.com/story/66967/us-teens-join-hardline-israeli-settlers.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 15 Aug 2009 7:31:12 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/66141/palestine-could-offer-bright-spot-for-arab-world.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThings are bad in the Arab world, but Thomas Friedman sees green shoots in an unlikely place: Palestine. “The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is to the wider Middle East what off-Broadway is to Broadway,” he writes in the New York Times . “It is where all good and bad ideas get tested out...http://www.newser.com/story/66141/palestine-could-offer-bright-spot-for-arab-world.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 05 Aug 2009 9:22:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65811/bruno-terrorist-says-hell-sue-baron-cohen.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Palestinian portrayed as a terrorist in Bruno says he is a Christian activist who plans to sue Sacha Baron Cohen, the Guardian reports. Ayman Abu Aita, a Fatah representative in Bethlehem, says he met with Cohen in a hotel under Israeli control—not a refugee camp, as depicted in...http://www.newser.com/story/65811/bruno-terrorist-says-hell-sue-baron-cohen.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 31 Jul 2009 19:05:12 CDT