Intifada Palestine

ShareBy Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban (ARAB ANGLE) On the eve of the sixty-first anniversary of Nakbah in Palestine, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman took a new leap by drafting a law to prevent the Palestinians even from remembering their historic tragedy that had befallen them in 1948. The draft law punishes anyone who does not obey [...]

Share  Bethlehem – Ma’an – Pope Benedict XVI left Israel for the Vatican in Rome on Friday afternoon, in the presence of a number of Israeli political and religious figures. At the ceremony, he told Israeli President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv that “[o]ne of [...]

ShareThousands of Palestinians gather to mark the ‘catastrophe’ OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (AlArabiya.net, Agencies ) Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s party wants to ban Israeli Arabs from marking the anniversary of what they term “the Catastrophe” in 1948 when Israel was created as thousands of Palestinians marked the 61st anniversary of the Naqba that sparked an exodus of hundreds of [...]

Share  Bethlehem – Ma’an – Pope Benedict XVI did not shy away from comment on the Right of Return and Israel’s illegal separation wall as he spoke beneath the barrier’s shadow in Bethlehem’s Aida Refugee Camp at the culmination of a daylong visit on Wednesday. “Towering over us as we gather here this afternoon is [...]

Share       Play Video AP  – Raw Video: Pope meets with Palestinian President   By MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH and DIAA HADID, Associated Press Writers BETHLEHEM, West Bank – Standing in the cradle of Christianity, Pope Benedict XVI told Palestinians Wednesday he understood their suffering and offered his strongest and most symbolic public backing yet for [...]