# israel-palestine - Tuesday 19 February, 2019
Last June, Israeli media queried why Ireland had yet to confirm its participation in Eurovision 2019.
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# israel-palestine - Friday 4 January, 2019
‘The clear line between supporting Palestinians and becoming anti-Israeli is a thin one and unfortunately, one that is being crossed all too often,’ writes Israeli Ambassador, Ophir Kariv.
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# israel-palestine - Wednesday 2 January, 2019
If Ireland is committed to peace between Israel and Palestine then we must show it and pass this legislation, writes Niall Collins.
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# israel-palestine - Saturday 13 October, 2018
She died in hospital from a head injury she sustained in the stone-throwing.
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# israel-palestine - Monday 9 April, 2018
The Ardmhéara will attend a conference on the status of the City of Jerusalem at the invitation of the Palestinian Authority.
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# israel-palestine - Monday 29 December, 2014
Around 20 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank since June.
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# israel-palestine - Tuesday 9 December, 2014
Former Israeli ambassador Ilan Baruch writes that only through a two state solution will freedom, security and equality for both Israelis and Palestinians come to pass.
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# israel-palestine - Tuesday 26 August, 2014
The Lilywhites were sanctioned by the European governing body over the weekend.
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# israel-palestine - Tuesday 8 July, 2014
There were more than 50 airstrikes early today.
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# israel-palestine - Thursday 19 June, 2014
After serving as an IDF combat soldier and commander, Yehuda Sahul questioned the morality of the military action in the West Bank.
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# israel-palestine - Thursday 20 February, 2014
The boycott is aimed at institutions and does not mean Irish academics can’t work with Israeli individuals, writes Harry Browne.
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# israel-palestine - Tuesday 31 December, 2013
The 26 inmates had served 19 to 28 years for killing Israeli civilians or soldiers.
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# israel-palestine - Friday 8 November, 2013
A refusal to admit EU delegates to Gaza brings fresh opportunity for scrutinising policies, actions and facts on the ground that adversely affect the people living there, writes Gary Spedding.
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# israel-palestine - Saturday 24 November, 2012
The exhumation is part of a renewed investigation into his death.
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# israel-palestine - Sunday 4 November, 2012
Mahmoud Abbas has publicly suggested his people may have to relinquish claims to ancestral homes in Israel.
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# israel-palestine - Monday 2 April, 2012
Palestinian woman Hana Shalabi was on hunger strike for 43 days to protest against Israel’s policy of “administrative detention”. She must remain in the Gaza Strip for three years.
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# israel-palestine - Wednesday 21 December, 2011
Diplomats have condemned the lack of progress toward a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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# israel-palestine - Thursday 21 July, 2011
Israel’s Prime Minister has promised “the beginning of a new era” during an interview with Arabic media – the first of its kind.
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# israel-palestine - Thursday 14 July, 2011
The Palestinian authorities plan to seek full membership at the United Nations this autumn.
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# israel-palestine - Sunday 10 July, 2011
The timetable will depend on foreign airlines’ ability to fly the activists home.
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# israel-palestine - Sunday 26 June, 2011
Yair Netanyahu is a spokesman for the military and it is not the first time Israeli Defence Forces have misused the site…
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# israel-palestine - Monday 6 June, 2011
Syrian police are today stopping pro-Palestinian protesters from reaching the border a day after Israeli troops opened fire on protesters, reportedly killing 20.
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# israel-palestine - Sunday 5 June, 2011
Local doctors confirmed the death toll as Israeli soldiers opened fire on protesters who stormed the border into the Golan Heights which Israeli seized from Syria in 1967.
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# israel-palestine - Saturday 4 June, 2011
Israel has not replied to the French invitation as hopes of a Palestinian state being recognised by the United Nations appear to be floundering.
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# israel-palestine - Saturday 21 May, 2011
Having begun the week looking at ways in which to move things forward in the Middle East, Barack Obama appears to have done little to appease either Israel or Palestine.
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# israel-palestine - Sunday 15 May, 2011
Clashes along three border posts came as Palestinians marked the “nakba,” or “catastrophe,” the term they use to describe the uprooting they suffered at the time of Israel’s founding on May 15, 1948.
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Dozens more were wounded as Palestinians commemorated their mass displacement during the war surrounding Israel’s establishment three generations ago.
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# israel-palestine - Saturday 14 May, 2011
The teenager died after street clashes in troubled east Jerusalem – raising fears of more bloodshed this weekend when Palestinians take part in an annual day of mourning to mark the anniversary of the founding of Israel.
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# israel-palestine - Thursday 5 May, 2011
France has dealt a blow to Israel’s hopes to isolate incoming Palestinian unity government by threatening to support a unilateral declaration of Palestinian independence if peace talks do not begin by September.
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# israel-palestine - Tuesday 3 May, 2011
Fifteen Palestinian factions have agreed to a reconciliation deal, which aims to end a four-year rift between the two major Palestinian political movements, Hamas and Fatah. Israel has called the deal a “hard blow to the peace process.”
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# israel-palestine - Thursday 28 April, 2011
Israeli leaders have today rejected a unity deal between Hamas and Fatah – insisting they will not enter any negotiations with a Palestinian government that includes the Islamic militant group.
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# israel-palestine - Wednesday 2 March, 2011
Newly approved Jewish settlement expansion in bitterly contested east Jerusalem has raised further fears for the deadlocked peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians.
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# israel-palestine - Tuesday 14 December, 2010
EU foreign ministers have said they will recognise Palestine when it is “appropriate”.
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# israel-palestine - Wednesday 8 December, 2010
The United States says it will no longer attempt to convince Israel to ban construction in the West Bank.
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# israel-palestine - Friday 24 September, 2010
Obama said he hopes to welcome a new member to the UN next year – an independent Palestinian state.
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# israel-palestine - Wednesday 22 September, 2010
Israelis and Palestinians are hurt after clashes break out during a funeral procession in east Jerusalem.
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# israel-palestine - Wednesday 1 September, 2010
First direct talks between Israel and Palestine in over 18 months open in Washington.
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# israel-palestine - Tuesday 31 August, 2010
A GUNMAN HAS SHOT four Israelis dead in a drive-by shooting outside a Jewish settlement town in the West Bank. The Israeli Defence Forces says that two men and two women, one of whom was pregnant, were killed in “one of the worst terror attacks” in many years. Israeli officials said Palestinian gunmen were responsible. Direct talks between Israeli and Palestinian officials are due to re-commence tomorrow in Washington.
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# israel-palestine - Sunday 29 August, 2010
57 Israeli actors and playwrights have refused to perform on the contested land of the West Bank.
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# israel-palestine - Friday 20 August, 2010
DIRECT TALKS between Israel and Palestine are marked to resume next month, on 2 September.
Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, and Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu, have agreed to place a one-year deadline on the talks.
Who will be present?
Barack Obama will reportedly be present at the talks, which are reportedly going to be held in Washington.
Envoy to the Middle East, and former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair is also invited to attend.
The Egyptian and Jordanian premiers have been invited to attend the talks.
Hopes for the talks
The Arab League has agreed to endorse the talks provided that particular “measures and conditions” are met. Netanyahu has said that he is happy to attend talks without preconditions.
According to the Guardian, issues that will be discussed during the talks will include:
- The possible borders of a Palestinian state
- The division of Jerusalem
- Israeli demands for a demilitarised Palestine
- The right of return for refugees
However, there are doubts about how much the talks will achieve.
Daniel Levy, a former Israeli negotiator, told Al Jazeera:
I don’t think there’s any common Israeli and Palestinian ground as yet. There will be deep scepticism pretty much everywhere … I think we’re going to hear something rather vague, something open to more than one interpretation.
Hamas leader Ismail Haniya has said that “nothing has been achieved” to warrant direct talks with Israel, and that Palestinians should focus on repairing the relationship between national movements Hamas and Fatah.
Settlements
Israeli settlements in occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank could prove to be a sticking point for Netanyahu. The Israeli prime minister imposed a 10 month construction freeze in in West Bank last month, however these did not include East Jerusalem.
The Israeli liberal group Peace Now have reported that building on at least 600 housing units have started during the freeze, and at least 492 theses are in direct violation of the law of the freeze.
Netanyahu may find himself under pressure to extend the construction freeze past the 26 September deadline by Obama. However, by doing so he would risk the collapse of his coalition government.
Indirect talk had been considered last March, but Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas pulled out over the issue of settlements.
The last direct talks between Israel and Palestine ended a year and a half ago, after Israel launched a three week strike on the Gaza Strip.
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