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After years of warning that President Obama’s targeted killing program flirted with lawlessness, the United Nations has announced it’s investigating the centerpiece of the U.S.’s shadow wars worldwide.
The inquiry will be led by Ben Emmerson, the U.N.’s special rapporteur for human rights and counterterrorism. It’ll focus on most of the places that the U.S.’s armed drones and elite special-operations forces operate: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia; as well as in [...]
Europe’s patience over nonstop Israeli settlement building on the occupied Palestinian lands will run out sooner than America’s, an Israeli academician and political commentator says.
Dr. Paul Rivlin, a senior research fellow of Middle Eastern and African studies at Tel Aviv University, made the remarks during a recent interview with the Internet-based video streaming network HuffPost Live run by news website The Huffington Post.
“The West will simply not allow this to [...]
Israel said Sunday it would withhold more than $100 million in tax revenue this month from the cash-strapped Palestinian Authority, the latest reaction to last week’s U.N. vote recognizing the Palestinian territories as a “nonmember observer state.”
Israeli Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz said he would use the money to repay part of an outstanding Palestinian debt—estimated to be about $180 million—to Israel’s electricity company for power supplied to parts of the [...]
GAZA – For the best part of the past 16 months, the Palestinian Authority failed to pay on time the wages of more than its 200,000 public-sector employees. The delays in salary payments are caused by delays in the transfer [to the Palestinian Authority] of emergency aid funds and Palestinian tax revenues collected by Israel on behalf of the Palestinian Authority. The economic implications of the situation are far-reaching and [...]
by Laura Stampler
Britain’s easy to offend Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) recently deemed Ryanair’s flight-attendants-in-their-underwear campaign too offensive for public consumption.
The ASA pulled the plug on the newspaper ad, which featuredRyanair staffers posing under the headline “RED HOT FARES & CREW,” after receiving 17 complaints that it was offensive and objectified women.
While the ads seemed mild to us (the feminist blog Jezebel noted, “meh, I’ve seen worse“), it’s hardly a surprise that the ban-happy ASA axed [...]
BY STEVEN LEE MYERS AND MARK LANDLER
WASHINGTON
ABSTRACT
The United States has begun a diplomatic campaign to prevent a confrontation this month over a Palestinian plan to seek recognition as a state at the United Nations.
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The Obama administration has begun a last-ditch diplomatic campaign to avert a confrontation this month over a Palestinian plan to seek recognition as a state at the United Nations, but it may already be too late, [...]
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Heeding a call from Palestinian Facebook organizers, several hundred Jordanians took to the streets of the capital Friday demanding a sovereign Palestinian state and that refugees be given the right to return home.
Palestinian youth groups called for protests in the West Bank and nearby Arab countries to mark the anniversary of the May 15, 1948, creation [...]
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Europe will ditch Israel sooner than US, Israeli analyst says
Europe’s patience over nonstop Israeli settlement building on the occupied Palestinian lands will run out sooner than America’s, an Israeli academician and political commentator says.
Dr. Paul Rivlin, a senior research fellow of Middle Eastern and African studies at Tel Aviv University, made the remarks during a recent interview with the Internet-based video streaming network HuffPost Live run by news website The Huffington Post.
“The West will simply not allow this to [...]