Feb 12, 2009

Palestine News Roundup: Election Tally Nears, UN Aid Resumes

Few peacemakers in Israel's Knesset (Al Jazeera)

Final Israel election tally to be announced (International Herald Tribune)

Election officials: Final tally of vote unlikely to change Knesset seat apportionment (Ha'aretz)

Military vote could help decide Israeli election (Reuters)

Sheetrit: Kadima won't join far-right government (Ha'aretz)

UN to resume Gaza aid operations (Al Jazeera)

Arabs Make Gains In New Israeli Parliament (AHN)

Lieberman: Election result 'failure of leftist media' (Jerusalem Post)

Obama not affected by Israel's cabinet? (Press TV)

Egypt cracks down on smugglers near Gaza (International Herald Tribune)

Israel election: Benjamin Netanyahu offers cabinet jobs to rivals (The Telegraph)

Abbas urges world to isolate Likud like it does Hamas (Ha'aretz)

Israeli elections: Voters' views (BBC News)

Israel: Preelection press roundup (LA Times)

Gaza to export Valentine's blooms (BBC News)

COMMENTARY


Our broken system (Jerusalem Post)

Gideon Levy: Does Zionism legitimize every act of violence? (Haaretz) http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1063597.html

David Hearst: Israel's perilous political stasis (Guardian)

Heather Sharp: Who will rebuild Gaza? (BBC News)

Victory for the block vote (Guardian)