Sep 4 2013 - 12:50pm Palestinian Women Hope To Gain Divorce Rights
September 4, 2013

The Supreme Religious Court in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip is considering legal amendments allowing women to divorce their husbands when they can show proof that their married life cannot go on.

Sep 4 2013 - 12:46pm Palestinian Authority loses $300m in trade taxes a year to Israel
September 4, 2013

The Palestinian Authority is losing about $300m (£193m) a year in "leakage" of customs, purchase and value-added taxes which are not transferred to the Palestinian treasury by Israel, according to preliminary UN estimates.

Sep 4 2013 - 12:42pm Palestinians march in West Bank to support Egyptian gov't
September 4, 2013

Dozens of Palestinians marched in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Tuesday in support of the army- backed Egyptian government.

Egyptian military Hamas says Egyptian military building buffer zone with Gaza
September 3, 2013

Egyptian security forces have destroyed some 20 houses along the border with Gaza, local residents said on Tuesday, in what the Palestinian enclave's Islamist Hamas rulers fear is an effort to build a buffer zone to isolate them.

Sep 3 2013 - 1:28pm Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed: In Syria, Western strikes will herald Assad’s fall
September 3, 2013

Regarding punishing the regime of President Bashar Al-Assad in Syria and actually seeking regime change, there is a major difference associated with the language used in the media and with the legal measures required for each distinct goal.

Sep 3 2013 - 1:25pm Arab-Americans must find a way to engage in politics
September 3, 2013

August 28 marked the 50th anniversary of the "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom", a rally that led directly to the 1964 Civil Rights Act and 1965 Voting Rights Act that changed, forever, the American political landscape.

Aug 30 2013 - 1:40pm Netanyahu: ‘Low probability’ Israel will be drawn into Syria fighting
August 30, 2013

With US-led strike expected early next week, IDF scales back leave for units in north, hospitals told to be ready for any emergencies, but leaders say Israelis have nothing to fear.

Aug 30 2013 - 1:34pm Rival Palestinian factions Hamas, Fatah unite against Western attack on Syria
August 30, 2013

Palestinians are opposed to any military intervention in the Syrian conflict; factions say military strike would only benefit Israel.

Aug 30 2013 - 1:25pm Ibish: Is Syria Being 'Lebanized' or is Lebanon Being 'Syrianized'?
August 30, 2013

When Hezbollah made its fateful decision to intervene militarily in the Syrian civil war, it was only a matter of time before the war would follow them back home and ignite a fire in Lebanon.

Aug 29 2013 - 3:05pm Mideast peace still matters
August 29, 2013

All eyes in the Arab world, and many beyond it, are now focused on what seems to be impending U.S. military action in Syria, where a metastasizing civil war has killed more than 100,000 people and displaced millions.


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