After the October 9 announcement, The New York Times quoted 2007 winner Al Gore saying it was "thrilling" without explaining it was as undeserved as his own. Writers Steven Erlanger and Sheryl Gay Stolberg called it a "surprise." For others it shocked and betrayed.
I mentioned in my last Op-Ed concerning my response to Michael Moore that I have had it with writing my congressmen, signing petitions and participating in protest marches. I said nothing about not beating on the press.
As the 456,000 schoolchildren in the Gaza Strip start their academic year, they face chronic shortages of everything from paper, textbooks and ink cartridges to school uniforms, school bags and computers, the result of the Israeli blockade. At the same time, severely overcrowded classrooms are having to accommodate students whose schools were destroyed or damaged in the last siege, early this year.
A reconciliation agreement between Fatah and Hamas, the rival Palestinian parties, has been delayed, following a bitter dispute over the Palestinian decision not to back a UN report on alleged Israeli war crimes.
Turkey has said that it banned Israel from an international air exercise due to begin last week because of its offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip last December.
An academic who proved that communities can trump state control and corporations has become the first woman to win the Nobel prize in economics since it began in 1968, sharing it with an expert on conflict resolution.
Gordon Brown, the British prime minister, has announced a $25bn sale of state assets, including the Channel Tunnel rail link, in a bid to cut soaring debt caused by the global economic crisis.
Israeli police have lifted restrictions on access to Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque compound days after Palestinians were barred from accessig the revered site.
Mahmoud Abbas has defended the decision to delay the endorsement of the Goldstone report on Gaza war crimes at the UN Human Rights Council, saying it was intended to garner adquate votes for its adoption.
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A reconciliation agreement between Fatah and Hamas, the rival Palestinian parties, has been delayed, following a bitter dispute over the Palestinian decision not to back a UN report on alleged Israeli war crimes.
Gordon Brown, the British prime minister, has announced a $25bn sale of state assets, including the Channel Tunnel rail link, in a bid to cut soaring debt caused by the global economic crisis.
