Below are daily news feeds from several publications that cover the Middle East. Recommended web sites to check regularly are Ha'aretz.com (an Israeli newspaper) and Maan News (a Palestinian newspaper). BBC News (a British source covering the Middle East. IMEU (Institute for Middle East Understanding) provides a summary of media highlights covering Israel and Palestine. The Jerusalem Post provides an opportunity to read news that generally mirrors Israel's official positions.

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    • Corrie family finally puts Israel in dock over daughter's death (Jonathan Cook, The National)
      Mar 11, 2010 - 03:38:36 AM
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      Seven years after Rachel Corrie, a US peace activist, was killed by an Israeli army bulldozer in Gaza, her family is to put the Israeli government in the dock today. A judge in the northern Israeli city of Haifa is due to be presented with evidence that Corrie, 23, was killed unlawfully as she stood in the path of the bulldozer, trying to prevent it from demolishing Palestinian homes in Rafah.
    • Biden fails to kick start talks (AlJazeeraEnglish)
      Mar 11, 2010 - 01:32:18 AM
    • British rights worker saw Rachel Corrie die under Israeli bulldozer, court hears (Rory McCarthy, The Guardian)
      Mar 11, 2010 - 01:08:13 AM
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      A British witness told a court today about how he had watched an Israeli military bulldozer run over and kill the American activist Rachel Corrie while she was trying to stop Palestinians' homes being demolished in Gaza. Richard Purssell, who was also a volunteer activist in Rafah at the time, seven years ago, described the "shocking and dramatic event" in an Israeli court in Haifa on the first day of a civil suit brought by Corrie's family against the Israeli state.
    • Thank you, Eli Yishai, for exposing the peace process masquerade (Gideon Levy, Haaretz)
      Mar 11, 2010 - 01:06:08 AM
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      Here's someone new to blame for everything: Eli Yishai. After all, Benjamin Netanyahu wanted it so much, Ehud Barak pressed so hard, Shimon Peres wielded so much influence - and along came the interior minister and ruined everything. There we were, on the brink of another historic upheaval (almost). Proximity talks with the Palestinians were in the air, peace was knocking on the door, the occupation was nearing its end - and then a Shas rogue came and shuffled all the proximity and peace cards.
    • Biden in West Bank to salvage peace talks (Omar Karmi, The National)
      Mar 11, 2010 - 01:05:00 AM
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      The US vice president, Joe Biden, was in discussions with Palestinian leaders in the West Bank last night to rescue proposed Middle East peace talks all but wrecked by Israeli "sabotage". Streets were closed and security forces deployed in numbers as Mr Biden arrived in Ramallah under the cloud of Israel's plans for another 1,600 settlement units in occupied East Jerusalem
    • Indirect Israel talks 'called off' (Al Jazeera)
      Mar 11, 2010 - 01:04:33 AM
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      The Palestinian president appears to have called off indirect talks with Israel after the Israeli interior ministry announced it would build 1,600 new settler homes. Mahmoud Abbas conveyed the decision to Amr Moussa, the Arab League secretary-general, by phone, Moussa told a news conference following an urgent meeting of delegates at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo on Wednesday.
    • Israel planning 50,000 housing units in East Jerusalem (Nir Hasson, Haaretz )
      Mar 11, 2010 - 01:02:03 AM
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      Some 50,000 new housing units in Jerusalem neighborhoods beyond the Green Line are in various stages of planning and approval, planning officials told Haaretz. They said Jerusalem's construction plans for the next few years, even decades, are expected to focus on East Jerusalem. Most of the housing units will be built in predominantly Jewish neighborhoods beyond the Green Line, while a smaller number of them will be built in Arab neighborhoods.
    • US family seeks Israeli damages (Al Jazeera)
      Mar 10, 2010 - 02:41:30 PM
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      The family of a US student activist killed by an Israeli army bulldozer in Gaza has launched a case against the Israeli government. Rachel Corrie, whose family is seeking $324,000 in damages from the defence ministry, was one of several foreign activists killed in confrontations with Israel in occupied territory in the past decade. She was nonviolently protesting against Palestinian home demolitions when the army bulldozer crushed her to death.
    • Why Israel jailed me for 'talking too much' (Jamal Juma, The Christian Science Monitor)
      Mar 10, 2010 - 03:32:20 AM
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      The renewed Middle East peace process appears to be little more than a charade. Israel has taken this opportunity to crack down on Palestinians who advocate nonviolent protests against the Israeli West Bank segregation barrier and charged them based on questionable or false evidence. I know: I was arrested for talking too much. All we Palestinians want is a life free from racial discrimination.
    • Dr. Mads Gilbert in Gaza (pjmora)
      Mar 10, 2010 - 01:31:58 AM
    • Biden condemns Israel over homes plan (Rory McCarthy, The Guardian)
      Mar 10, 2010 - 01:12:14 AM
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      Joe Biden, the US vice-president, condemned a plan by Israel to build 1,600 homes on occupied Palestinian land in an East Jerusalem settlement. The Israeli interior ministry's approval of the plan cast a cloud over a visit to the country by Biden just hours after he pledged strong support for the Israeli government. Biden said: "I condemn the decision by the government of Israel to advance planning for new housing units."
    • Peaceful protest in Israel can lead to arrest (Mazin Qumsiyeh, The New Haven Register)
      Mar 10, 2010 - 01:09:58 AM
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      This week, when I return to my village in the occupied West Bank, I face possible arrest by Israel for engaging in nonviolent protests against abusive Israeli policies opposed by our own government. This prospect is difficult after 29 years of living in the United States, where such activities are fully protected. It was this openness that attracted me to the U.S. I became a proud citizen and pursued work not only in my profession but also as a human rights advocate.
    • Middle East women ahead but not home (Sanjay Suri, Inter Press Service)
      Mar 10, 2010 - 01:06:41 AM
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      Male leaders fail to break the Mideast impasse. Enter women from Israel and the Palestinian territories working together. And, it would have been nice to say they succeeded where the men failed. They didn't. The women have been ahead of the times, in speaking of solutions others thought unmentionable once, but now increasingly accept. And yet, peace seems more difficult than ever.
    • First praise, then a rebuke: Biden's Israel visit turns sour (Donald Macintyre, The Independent)
      Mar 10, 2010 - 01:04:56 AM
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      The Israeli government last night managed to overshadow a high-profile visit by the US Vice-President, Joe Biden, with an announcement of controversial and politically highly sensitive plans to build 1,600 new homes for Jewish residents in Arab East Jerusalem. The announcement from the Interior Ministry - which drew a sharp and swift rebuke from Mr Biden himself - came only hours after the Vice-President had personally congratulated the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, for "taking risks for peace".
    • Ten-year-old boy abducted by Israeli soldiers from his bed (Nora Barrows-Friedman, Electronic Intifada)
      Mar 09, 2010 - 01:23:52 PM
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      Amir al-Mohtaseb smiled tenderly when I asked him to tell me his favorite color. Sitting in his family's living room last Thursday afternoon, 4 March, in the Old City of Hebron, the ten-year-old boy with freckles and long eyelashes softly replied, "green." He then went on to describe in painful detail his arrest and detention -- and the jailing of his 12-year-old brother Hasan by Israeli occupation soldiers on Sunday, February 28th.
    • Haniyeh to appoint female minister (Ma'an News)
      Mar 09, 2010 - 12:47:11 PM
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      De facto Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh announced Tuesday that his government intends to appoint a female minister to head a Women's Affairs Ministry in the Gaza Strip. "The government is planning to appoint a number of female ministers to better include them in the decision-making process," Haniyeh told attendees at an event honoring women in the workforce in Gaza City.
    • Netanyahu has never been a peacemaker (Joharah Baker, Bitterlemons.com)
      Mar 09, 2010 - 03:00:45 AM
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      The maxim "actions speak louder than words" may be a cliche but it is surely an accurate one when writing about Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's sincerity in reaching a peace deal with the Palestinians. Since his Bar Ilan speech last June, Netanyahu has been boasting of his "outstretched hand", his genuine intentions to make peace with his neighbors and his stoic patience in waiting for a Palestinian partner to finally grab this incredible opportunity.
    • "Palestinian cinema is a cause": an interview with Hany Abu-Assad (Sabah Haider, The Electronic Intifada)
      Mar 09, 2010 - 02:55:00 AM
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      Nazareth-born filmmaker Hany Abu-Assad is best known internationally for his 2005 film Paradise Now about two young, attractive Palestinian men from Nablus in the occupied West Bank who are drawn into a suicide bombing mission in Tel Aviv. It was nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Foreign Language Film category.
    • Israelis and Palestinians agree to US-led talks (The Independent)
      Mar 09, 2010 - 02:50:32 AM
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      Israel and the Palestinians have agreed to hold "indirect" talks mediated by Washington, the US special envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell, said yesterday. The announcement came just hours after Israel enraged Palestinians by announcing new West Bank settlement construction on the same day US Vice President Joseph Biden landed in the region to promote negotiations.
    • Israeli Left emerges from coma amid atrocities (Mel Frykberg, Inter Press Service)
      Mar 09, 2010 - 02:43:58 AM
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      Amid the wave of violence that swept through the occupied Palestinian West Bank, including East Jerusalem, over the last few days, there are signs that the Israeli left may be emerging from its collective coma. On Saturday night over 3,000 Palestinian, Israeli and foreign peace activists, waving Palestinian flags and shouting "Free Sheikh Jarrah", gathered in the East Jerusalem suburb in support of Palestinians threatened with home demolitions and evictions.

  • BBC Middle East News

    BBC Middle East News

    • Hamas release British journalist
      Mar 11, 2010 - 04:11:39 AM
      Hamas release a British journalist, Paul Martin, accused of spying and jailed for a month in the Gaza Strip, British officials say.
    • Mid-East peace talks in doubt over housing
      Mar 11, 2010 - 02:19:09 AM
      The Palestinian Authority says indirect talks with Israel will be "very difficult" if more homes are built on occupied land as planned.
    • Israel supermarket uses parody film of Dubai assassins in advert
      Mar 10, 2010 - 03:05:38 PM
      An Israeli supermarket chain uses spoof surveillance footage, parodying that of the alleged assassins of a Hamas commander in Dubai, in a TV advert.
    • Liberal or stooge?
      Mar 10, 2010 - 07:38:29 AM
      Sheikh Tantawi never shied away from controversy
    • Iran attacks US over Afghanistan
      Mar 10, 2010 - 06:33:44 AM
      Iranian President says it is the US, not Tehran, that is playing a "double game" in Afghanistan.
    • Israel sued over dead US activist
      Mar 10, 2010 - 06:02:26 AM
      A court case brought by the family of Rachel Corrie, a US protester killed by an Israeli army bulldozer in 2003, opens in Israel.
    • Egypt's top cleric dies aged 81
      Mar 10, 2010 - 03:34:06 AM
      Egypt's top Muslim cleric, Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, has died suddenly in Saudi Arabia at the age of 81.
    • US apology for Gaddafi comments
      Mar 09, 2010 - 01:24:35 PM
      The US State Department apologises for comments by a spokesman on a call by Libya for holy war against Switzerland.
    • First vote
      Mar 09, 2010 - 10:58:16 AM
      The BBC meets some of Iraq's first-time voters
    • Israeli 'spymaster' dies aged 82
      Mar 09, 2010 - 10:11:52 AM
      A former Israeli spy who played a key role in Africa, the Middle East and the 1980s Iran-Contra scandal has died.
    • Israel and Syria in nuclear bids
      Mar 09, 2010 - 09:01:25 AM
      Israel and Syria both tell a conference in Paris they want to use nuclear power to generate electricity.
    • Fourth Australian named by Dubai
      Mar 09, 2010 - 04:00:55 AM
      A fourth Australian passport-holder has been named in connection with the murder of a Hamas commander in Dubai.
    • Iraq election voter turnout '62%'
      Mar 09, 2010 - 03:20:27 AM
      The voter turnout in Iraq's parliamentary election was 62%, officials say, despite attacks that killed 38 people.
    • Separation fear
      Mar 09, 2010 - 02:05:16 AM
      Families fight 'racist' Israeli marriage and citizenship law
    • US eases sanctions for freer web
      Mar 08, 2010 - 11:25:15 AM
      The US eases sanctions on Iran, Cuba and Sudan to help further the use of internet services and support opposition groups.
    • Israel 'to build nuclear plant'
      Mar 08, 2010 - 09:54:50 AM
      Israel is to unveil this week plans to build a nuclear power plant, reports say.
    • Iranian poet handed 'travel ban'
      Mar 08, 2010 - 07:52:38 AM
      Iran's most celebrated female poet is banned from travelling out of the country by the government.
    • Lost Jews 'found in Zimbabwe'
      Mar 08, 2010 - 04:15:10 AM
      The Zimbabweans who trace their roots back to Israel
    • Standing firm
      Mar 07, 2010 - 12:52:13 PM
      Iraqi democracy stays strong amid bomb attacks
    • Audio slideshow
      Mar 06, 2010 - 06:37:04 PM
      How Palestinians came to love the bagpipes
    • Surgery on Mubarak 'successful'
      Mar 06, 2010 - 07:27:21 AM
      Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak undergoes successful surgery at a German clinic for an inflamed gall bladder, state media say.
    • PM's Iraq evidence 'disingenuous'
      Mar 06, 2010 - 03:53:28 AM
      Former defence chiefs challenge Gordon Brown's claim at the Iraq inquiry that no military request for equipment was turned down.
    • At home with Umm Sheyma
      Mar 06, 2010 - 01:24:27 AM
      Three generations reflect on life in the unpredictable city
    • Deadly Iraq car bomb hits Najaf
      Mar 06, 2010 - 01:15:21 AM
      A car bomb in Iraq's holy city of Najaf kills at least three people on the eve of tense parliamentary elections, officials say.
    • Iraq president 'to retain post'
      Mar 05, 2010 - 03:29:55 PM
      Iraqi President Jalal Talabani tells the BBC he expects to retain his position in Sunday's general election.
    • Bitter Baathists
      Mar 05, 2010 - 09:25:27 AM
      Spirit of Saddam lives on among Iraqi exiles in Syria
    • UK to stop 'political' warrants
      Mar 04, 2010 - 08:03:11 PM
      The UK is planning to stop attempts to secure "politically-motivated" arrest warrants for visiting foreign officials, the prime minister has said.
    • New trial in Egypt murder case
      Mar 04, 2010 - 09:35:56 AM
      Egypt's highest court orders the retrial of a tycoon and ex-policeman sentenced to death for killing a Lebanese pop singer.
    • Disturbing Fallujah birth defects
      Mar 04, 2010 - 03:00:17 AM
      John Simpson on birth defects in Iraqi city
    • Iraq vote: Baghdad views
      Mar 03, 2010 - 01:13:15 AM
      The BBC went to meet three Baghdad residents to find out how their lives have changed - and how they think the election will impact on their communities.
    • ME anger at Israeli 'escalations'
      Mar 01, 2010 - 06:00:41 AM
      Clashes between Israeli police and Palestinian protestors over the issue of holy sites have provoked a wave of condemnation in the Arab press for Israel's behaviour.
    • A first 'Palestinian settlement'?
      Feb 27, 2010 - 05:39:01 AM
      'Settlement' for Palestinians to go up in West Bank
    • Iraq cracks down on camouflage
      Feb 26, 2010 - 04:37:44 AM
      Iraq tries to restrict the market in military uniforms
    • EU: Settlement goods not Israeli
      Feb 26, 2010 - 02:10:11 AM
      The European Court of Justice rules that Israeli goods made in Jewish settlements cannot be considered Israeli.
    • Dubai killing highlights Mossad
      Feb 26, 2010 - 01:12:21 AM
      Dubai murder wins Mossad the wrong kind of press
    • Iraq given its largest IMF loan
      Feb 25, 2010 - 02:21:08 AM
      The IMF is to lend Iraq $3.6bn to rebuild its infrastructure as low oil prices slash its revenue.
    • Rebel arrest delights Iran's press
      Feb 24, 2010 - 08:28:03 AM
      Iran's press has expressed satisfaction at the capture of Sunni rebel leader Abdolmalek Rigi
    • Years of protest at W Bank wall
      Feb 19, 2010 - 04:44:10 AM
      West Bank village marks years of barrier protests
    • Photos across Israeli Gaza divide
      Feb 16, 2010 - 01:27:17 AM
    • Yemenis discuss security struggle
      Jan 15, 2010 - 04:30:33 AM
      Yemenis in Sanaa tell the BBC what they think of the international focus on their country as a hotbed of terrorism, and what they think are the biggest challenges facing Yemen.
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