Middle East Monitor - The Latest from the Middle East

Skip to content

Thursday, March 11, 2010 11:16

Commentary

Andrew Gilligan, Dispatches and "Islamic terrorism"

Gilligan’s Island" was a sixties sitcom with an eponymous hero who was "bumbling, dim-witted [and] accident-prone". Andrew Gilligan had nothing to do with that programme, but one can’t help thinking about him as he seems to be everywhere at the moment; the London Evening Standard, the Daily Telegraph and, this week, Channel 4’s Dispatches.

Read More

News Flash

The Goldstone recommendations on Israel/Palestine have been adopted by the European Parliament today on March 10 2009. The resolution was adopted with 335 votes in favour, 287 against and 43 abstentions and the following recommendations were agreed on:

1. All parties should respect human rights
2. Independent and impartial investigations within the next five months should take place within the next five months
3. The Goldstone recommendations should be implemented and monitored
4. There should be no restriction of NGO activities and the authorities should stop refraining their activities

In Pictures

AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (MIDDLE EAST)

Indirect Israel talks 'called off'
Arab League chief conveys Palestinian decision after Israel unveils plan for 1,600 new settler homes.
US family seeks Israeli damages
Case concerns Rachel Corrie's death during protest against Palestinian home demolitions.
Al-Azhar head dies in Saudi Arabia
Tantawi, Sunni Islam's most senior religious figure, stirred controversy with ban on niqab.

Open Letter to Prime Minister Gordon Brown | Israel "blackmails Gaza’s patients to turn them into collaborators" | Official calls for Egyptian gas to run Gaza’s power plant instead of Israeli diesel More peaceful demonstrations in the Gaza Strip

Lieberman warns of consequences of unilateral independence

Monday, 16 November 2009 13:54

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman warned that the establishment of a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders would "not end the conflict but shift it to inside Israel," he said.

Lieberman made these statements at the annual Saban Forum in Jerusalem Saturday 14th, in response to the Palestinian Liberation Organization's chief negotiator Saeb Erekat, who said that the Palestinian Authority is seeking the UN's endorsement of an independent Palestinian state within the 1967 borders, with Eastern Jerusalem being its capital.

Lieberman stated that "a return to 1967 borders and the establishment of a Palestinian state … will not end the conflict." This would rather prompt Israeli Arabs living in the Galilee and Negev to demand autonomy and build stronger ties with the Palestinians, he said.

Source: Quds Press