Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas was to meet with President Barack Obama Thursday as the new US administration steps up pressure on Israel.
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/ 1 February 2009
The call is part of a growing demand by Palestinian sympathisers to investigate the role of South African Jews in the IDF.
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/ 15 October 2008
George W Bush’s presidency is losing international influence, but it would be foolish to write obituaries for American power.
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/ 20 September 2008
One of Tzipi Livni’s greatest challenges will be to restore some integrity to the tainted Israeli political system, writes Rory McCarthy.
Violence and political instability have made weddings in Baghdad virtually impossible. Caitlin Fitzsimmons reports.
Former Palestinian detainees tell Jonathan Steele
of their alleged abuse by Palestinian Authority forces.
A frequent complaint of the Iranians is that they want to deal directly with the US instead of its surrogates, Britain, France and Germany.
Deputy editor Drew Forrest was a member of the South African fact-finding delegation which toured Israel/Palestine last week.
Triumph or tragedy? This week’s prisoners-and-bodies exchange across the front lines of Israel’s last major war had elements of both.
It will take fresh pressure and incentives to douse fears of a strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities that would inflame the region.
While mending transatlantic divides is commendable, the EU-American summit presents an opportunity to rectify misperceptions about the US’s agenda.
Former Palestinian collaborators forge a new life in Israel. Rory McCarthy reports from Sderot.
Israel said on Wednesday it accepted an Egyptian-brokered truce with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, but voiced scepticism the ceasefire would hold.