As events move toward Israel’s 50 years of occupation of Palestine next year, confidence in the Palestinian Authority is crumbling and the peace process is on a knife-edge, threatening to create a new generation of radicals unwilling to live through the current malaise and political vacuum, writes Juno McEnroe Political Correspondent in the West Bank.

Ambassador Zeev Boker has a tough task appeasing sentiment here about Israeli activity in Gaza, but our countries have much in common, he tells Juno McEnroe

Water charge-dodgers are being given effective tax rebates of €100 each that could cost the State tens of millions of euro; Two people have survived a helicopter crash in Co Longford; Bertie Ahern is set to launch a defence of his economic record; Greek MPs have voted overwhelmingly to approve a harsh austerity bill. Here’s this morning’s irishexaminer.com round-up.