Jan 27, 2009

Palestine News Roundup: Mitchell, Gaza's Children, and Syria Peace?

A Palestinian man pours fuel at his
stand in Gaza City. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

US Special Envoy Mitchell Heading to Middle East (Voice of America)

Children show signs of trauma from Gaza conflict (Newsday)

Outgoing Israel PM upbeat on Syria peace prospects (Reuters)

Palestinian Elections Not Seen Before Year-End (Reuters)

Two Dead in Gaza Border Violence (BBC)

Tzipi Livni: Israel Must Respond Immediately to Gaza Bomb Attack (Haaretz)

France Asks Syria to Help Free Israeli Soldier (Reuters)

UAE Red Crescent and BinSina Pharmacy Launch Campaign to Deliver Medicines to Gaza
(AME Info, United Arab Emirates)

Thousands in Gaza Still Homeless, Says UN (The Times of India)

Israel Planned Gaza Attack Nearly One Year Ago (Gulf News)

Islamic Relief Worldwide Delivers $3 Million of Aid to Gaza (Reuters)

UN's role in Gaza rises among the rubble (Associated Press)

TIMELINE - Israel goes to the polls (Reuters)

Sarkozy to Update Shalit's Father on Latest Efforts to Free Son (Haaretz)

Palestinian straw firms said aiming to 'steal' Gaza funds (Jerusalem Post)

Egypt: No secret security deal with Israel (Al-Bawaba)

BBC Gaza appeal row: unions protest (guardian.co.uk)

COMMENTARY

Carter says Israel must allow a Palestinian state or face 'catastrophe' (Associated Press)

Greenwald: Continuing Bush policies in Israel and Afghanistan (Salon)

Avi Issacharoff and Amos Harel: Recognizing that Israel's effort to topple Hamas has failed (Haaretz)

Catherine Miller : Syria and the new Arab 'cold war'(BBC)

Richard Silverstein: No more Mr Nice Guy (Guardian)

Ed Husain: Let us remember together (Guardian)

Benjamin Pogrund: Peace is in the hands of the people (The Guardian)

David Grossman: Israel Must Stop Fanning the Flames That Will Consume Us (Washington Post)

'Israel throwing commanders under bus' (Press TV)

Ramzy Baroud: Opinion: Gaza: A New Middle East Indeed (The Tripoli Post)

Patrick Cockburn: Resurgent right dashes peace hopes as Mitchell flies to Israel (The Independent)

Marc Lynch: How badly did Gaza poison the well? (Foreign Policy)

Uri Avnery:OPINION: On the wrong side of history (Pakistan Daily Times)

An unenviable job (International Herald Tribune)