Tag Archive for 'palestine'

US cuts off UNESCO funding over Palestine vote

Published on November 4, 2011

The United States government has cut off funds to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural organisation (UNESCO), following the agency’s admission of Palestine as a full member.

Washington’s decision to withold $60m in funding, which is about one-quarter of UNESCO’s annual budget, came after 107 out of 173 countries voted in favor of the Palestinian bid for statehood.

Although UNESCO’s membership marks a small victory for Palestinian officials, it could help them protect more than 20 monumental Palestinian cultural and religious sites.

The US also condemned UNESCO’s move, saying that it “undermines” the peace process between Israelis and Palestinians.

Incoming search terms:

  • israel cuts off palestinian tax funds
  • unesco funding problems
  • Unesko: funding troubles
In Issues and News and Events
Tags: Israeli-Palestinian conflict, palestine, Palestinian National Authority, Palestinian nationalism, Palestinian people, UNESCO, United Nations, United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, United States, United States government.

Israel withholds Palestinian tax revenues

Published on November 3, 2011

Palestinians say they are outraged by the Israeli government’s decision to withhold millions of dollars of tax revenues from them while accelerating settlement construction. The decision follows Palestine being recognised as a state by UNESCO — the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation.

There are now 150,000 Palestinian Authority employees across the West Bank and Gaza who do not know whether they will receive their full salaries next week.

Incoming search terms:

  • palestine revenues
  • isreal withholding of tax revenue from palestine
  • israel witholds taxes
  • palestinian tax revenue
In Multimedia, News and Events and Politics
Tags: gaza, Gaza Strip, Israeli government, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, palestine, Palestinian National Authority, Palestinian people, Palestinian territories, United Nations Education Scientific and Cultural Organisation, United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, West Bank.

Mahmoud Abbas: The Long Overdue Palestinian State

Published on May 26, 2011

mahmoud abbas Mahmoud Abbas: The Long Overdue Palestinian State

Sixty-three years ago, a 13-year-old Palestinian boy was forced to leave his home in the Galilean city of Safed and flee with his family to Syria. He took up shelter in a canvas tent provided to all the arriving refugees. Though he and his family wished for decades to return to their home and homeland, they were denied that most basic of human rights. That child’s story, like that of so many other Palestinians, is mine.

This month, however, as we commemorate another year of our expulsion — which we call the nakba, or catastrophe — the Palestinian people have cause for hope: this September, at the United Nations General Assembly, we will request international recognition of the State of Palestine on the 1967 border and that our state be admitted as a full member of the United Nations.

Many are questioning what value there is to such recognition while the Israeli occupation continues. Others have accused us of imperiling the peace process. We believe, however, that there is tremendous value for all Palestinians — those living in the homeland, in exile and under occupation.

Continue reading ‘Mahmoud Abbas: The Long Overdue Palestinian State’

In Features
Tags: Fertile Crescent, General Assembly, israel, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Jerusalem, Mahmoud Abbas, palestine, Palestine Liberation Organization, Palestinian National Authority, Palestinian people, Palestinian refugees, Proposals for a Palestinian state, United Nations General Assembly, West Bank, Western Asia.

Its a place called Palestine

Published on January 13, 2011

It’s a place called, Palestine. No wonder why you, don’t know it. Israel was created in 1948, and it ethnic cleansed, Palestine.

In Multimedia and Occupation
Tags: israel, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East, palestine, Zionism.

Israel torturing Palestinian civilian

Published on January 12, 2011

Israeli Border Policemen have filmed themselves abusing and humiliating Palestinians in videos they have posted on YouTube over the past year.

In one clip uploaded to the video sharing website, an Arab youth is shown in arid terrain, slapping himself, while a voice is heard instructing him to say “I love you, Border Police,” and “I will f**k you, Palestine,” in Arabic. The victim is forced to respond to everything he is ordered to do, to the raucous laughter of the cameraman and his friends, all Border Policemen.

In Multimedia, News and Events and Zionism
Tags: Arab-Israeli conflict, Border Police, Human Interest, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Middle East, palestine, Palestinian people.