MIDEAST: Israel’s Cornered ‘Slaves’ Speak Out
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Jillian Kestler-D’Amours JERUSALEM, May 25, 2011 (IPS) – A new Israeli law that would bind migrant workers in nursing or care-giving professions to...
View ArticlePeacemakers Swim Against the Tide
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Frank Mulder UTRECHT, The Netherlands, May 29, 2011 (IPS) – Although politicians seem to have put the peace process on ice, there are many different...
View ArticleMIDEAST: Settlers See New Support from Obama
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Mel Frykberg RAMALLAH, May 28, 2011 (IPS) – The leader of Israel’s most right-wing government since the establishment of the Jewish state 63 years...
View ArticleMIDEAST: September Knocks on Israeli Gates
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Pierre Klochendler JERUSALEM, Jun 7, 2011 (IPS) – "September 2011 is knocking on our gates," says an Israeli army officer who, under strict operation...
View ArticleOP-ED: Experts Fear Israeli Design to Balkanise Arab States
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Analysis by Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-Omrani CAIRO, Jun 18, 2011 (IPS) – Developments in Libya have raised fears among Egyptian analysts and...
View ArticleMIDEAST: When a Spy Speaks
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Pierre Klochendler JERUSALEM, Jun 20, 2011 (IPS) – The man who, for the last eight years, embodied Israel’s secret operations and had a penchant for...
View ArticleMIDEAST: ‘Flytilla’ Debacle Another PR Nightmare For Israel
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Mel Frykberg BEN GURION AIRPORT, Tel Aviv, Jul 10, 2011 (IPS) – Confused foreign tourists arriving at Israel’s Ben Gurion International Airport on...
View ArticleMIDEAST: Palestinians Won’t Learn Israeli Lessons
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Jillian Kestler-D’Amours EAST JERUSALEM, Jul 12, 2011 (IPS) – Widespread strikes across Palestinian civil society could be in store for East...
View ArticleMIDEAST: Into an Unsettled New Year
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Mya Guarnieri HEBRON, Jan 22, 2012 (IPS) – An elderly Palestinian woman spent last week on hunger strike to protest violent attacks by Israeli...
View ArticleThere’s Bride at the End of the Tunnel
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Sanjay Suri Aug 27 (IPS) – Mai Ahmed, a 26–year-old from the West Bank fell in love over the Internet with Mohammed Warda from Nussirat refugee camp in...
View ArticleIsraeli Firepower Threatens to Overwhelm Palestinians
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Nov 17 (IPS) – When the late Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), was engaged in a heavily...
View ArticleIsrael Prepares for Deeper Confrontation
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Pierre Klochendler JERUSALEM, Nov 17 (IPS) – Four days into Israel’s fierce assault on Hamas in Gaza, the ongoing operation looks on the surface a...
View ArticleA War Writ Small On the Other Side
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Pierre Klochendler ASHDOD, Southern Israel, Nov 20 (IPS) – Overhead on a bombing mission, an Israeli Air Force F16 screams its way towards Gaza. On the...
View ArticleIn Gaza, Another Eight Days of Killing
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Mohammed Omer GAZA CITY, Nov 22 (IPS) – Fouad Hijazi was watching the 7 pm news with his wife and eight children when a missile fired by an Israeli F-16...
View ArticleGaza Assault Shows a New Egypt
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Adam Morrow, Khaled Moussa al-Omrani CAIRO, Nov 23 (IPS) – The reaction of post-revolution Egypt to Israel’s weeklong onslaught on the next-door Gaza...
View ArticleEnd of Assault Opens Opportunities for Gaza
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Jillian Kestler-DAmours JERUSALEM, Nov 25 (IPS) – As the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas seems to be holding, many are hoping that one of the...
View ArticleIt’s All About Israel
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Senator Chuck Hagel at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Service Committee Jan. 31, 2013. Credit: DoD Photo by Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo Jim...
View ArticleIsraeli Activists Invite Palestinian Vote
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Mel Frykberg RAMALLAH, Feb 04 (IPS) – Unknown to the Israeli government or the Israeli electorate, hundreds of Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza...
View ArticleGolan Heights Braces for More Fighting
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS The fence and army road separates Majdal Shams from ‘Syria proper’. Credit: Jillian Kestler-D’Amours/IPS. Jillian Kestler-DAmours MAJDAL SHAMS, Occupied...
View ArticleIsrael Goods Boycott Movement Rises
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Um Abed plants an olive tree in support of Palestinian farmers. Credit: Eva Bartlett/IPS. By Eva Bartlett ZEITOUN, Gaza, Feb 10 (IPS) – Tawfiq Mandil,...
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