Economic blues hovering over Israel
Analysis by Khalid Amayreh in Occupied East Jerusalem
The main challenge facing the new right-wing government in Israel is not going to be the moribund peace process with the Palestinians, but rather the depressive crisis now haunting the Israeli economy.
Some economists label the current crisis as the “harshest in Israel’s history.”
Chavez offers to shelter Gitmo inmates
Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez said the Gitmo detainees are "human beings".
Posted on Press Tv : Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:02:23 GMT
President Hugo Chavez has expressed Venezuela’s readiness to accept prisoners held at the Guantanamo bay detention center in Cuba.
The Venezuelan leader said on Wednesday that Caracas "would have no problems in receiving" the detainees — whom the US calls terror suspects — from the notorious US prison.
Doctors to reopen Yasser Arafat death investigation Arab doctors to review information about ‘strange death’ of former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat
Rachel Shabi in Tel Aviv
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 2 April 2009 14.17 BST
Arab doctors are to investigate the death of the former Palestinian president, Yasser Arafat, re-opening a four-year-old case which is still the subject of suspicion, conspiracy theories and political accusations.
Doctors from Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan and the Palestinian territories have been given the task of reviewing information about the former president’s demise.
Jewish writer raises a storm in America with his report from a ‘tolerant’ Iran Paul Harris in New York
The Observer, Sunday 29 March 2009
A row has broken out over allegations of antisemitism at the New York Times, America’s most vaunted name in journalism and a newspaper with a large Jewish readership.
The storm centres on a column about Jews in Iran written by New York Times journalist Roger Cohen and a33attacking the recent war in Gaza.