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PALESTINIAN investigators said on Friday that Israel is the "only suspect" in the death of former president Yasser Arafat, after a new report suggested he died from polonium poisoning.

Israel flagA stormy, high-level meeting of senior Palestinian leaders called to discuss US Secretary of State John Kerry's latest peace proposal ended with a...

IN some of the dry and dusty Palestinian and Bedouin villages they still circumcise their boys after the seventh day. Hidden away in some Palestinian homes are Jewish mezuzahs and tefillin.

Only one in three Palestinians (34 percent) accepts two states for two peoples as the solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, according to an intensive, face-to-face survey in Arabic of 1,010 Palestinian adults.

THE Arab League will ask the United Nations to upgrade the Palestinians to full member status, from the 'observer' status that it currently enjoys, according to a recent draft statement from a league meeting in Qatar.

The 16 million Jews in the world represent less than 1 percent of the world’s population.  Yet 30 percent of the billionaires in the world are Jewish.  Saudi Arabia next door is the world’s 18th largest economy, relying heavily on oil. 

Meanwhile, Biden said there would be "no US boots on the ground" as part of the construction of the port, but it does represent a crucial shift in his administration's intervention in the Gaza crisis.

Talk of “collateral damage” is a decoy.  Egypt couldn’t care less about Palestinian civilians, and nor could Hamas.  That is self-evident.  What they are afraid of is that Palestine will end up democratic and not autocratic.  That’s the rub.

The way the USA used its veto in the Security Council this week is a reminder that Israel still has loyal patrons. Britain abstained from that vote. This bought more time for Israel to continue its forceful military campaign against Hamas. Opening up future possibilities for Dr Mustafa Barghouti.

The proxy-war in the media, trying to sway public opinion, has shifted back to Israel’s advantage. That may change again, but expect several more weeks if not months of more urban warfare.