Zoe Lawlor of Gaza Action Ireland uses the isolated killing of Abed al-Fattah Yusri al-Sharif, 21, by an Israeli soldier to support a universal claim that Israel engages in a campaign “of extrajudicial executions” in its confrontation with Palestinian terrorists (Letters, April 5).

I take grave objection to the description of the Palestinian people put forward by Desmond Fitzgerald (Letters, October 2).

Alex Perry meets the would-be world leader Tony Blair

Germany is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the night the Berlin Wall fell.

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THERE’S a special event taking place tomorrow and you’re invited to participate.

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THE MANY golfers who will surely be praying for divine intervention as the 109th US Open unfolds over the next two days might well take encouragement from how Bethpage got its name.

GOD brought Moses to the top of Jordan’s Mount Nebo, and showed him a glimpse of the Promised Land, according to the Book of Deuteronomy.

When a series of nuclear bombs go off across the US, the residents of Jericho aren’t sure if they’re the only ones left.

Gunmen planned to assassinate Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert when he went to the West Bank in August to meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, a security chief reportedly told Israel’s Cabinet today.

PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said yesterday that Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was never seriously threatened by an assassination plot and promised to do his best to rein in West Bank militants.

Gunmen planned to assassinate Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert when he went to the West Bank in August to meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, a security chief reportedly told Israel’s Cabinet today.

Bryan Adams has been forced to scrap his peace concert in Israel following a number of security alerts.

Israel has promised solutions for many of the day-to-day concerns of Palestinians in Israeli-controlled areas, Palestinians President Mahmoud Abbas said after talks with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.

In their first meeting on Palestinian soil, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas today he hopes to launch negotiations “soon” on establishing a Palestinian state, his clearest promise yet to tackle a final peace deal.

Ehud Olmert will today become the first Israeli prime minister to visit a Palestinian city since the outbreak of fighting seven years ago.

The Palestinian president and the Israeli prime minister are to meet in the West Bank tomorrow ahead of a peace conference in the United States, a Palestinian official said.

The Israeli and Palestinian leaders today called off a planned summit this week, dealing a new setback to efforts to halt nearly a month of fighting between the Israeli army and militants in the Gaza Strip and restart peacemaking.

An Israeli archaeologist has found the tomb of King Herod, the legendary builder of ancient Jerusalem and the Holy Land, at a compound on a hill south of the city, the Hebrew University announced late tonight.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will meet on Sunday, an aide to the Israeli leader confirmed today - keeping their promise to US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to hold regular talks.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas signalled he is giving up on forming a moderate government to replace the one headed by the militant Islamic Hamas, a decision that could spark violence or new elections – or both.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas declared today that months of coalition talks with the ruling Hamas have hit a “dead end” and his aides said he’s finished negotiating with the Islamic militants.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said today that talks to achieve a national unity government aimed at ending an international aid boycott have reached a “dead end”.

Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said today that a peace initiative proposed by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was a “positive” step toward peacemaking.

Hamas militiamen pulled back from Gaza’s streets today, and Palestinian prime minister Ismail Haniyeh declared that calm was returning to the area after a deadly explosion of violence between his Hamas group and its Fatah rivals.

An Israeli court today charged four Palestinian militants over the assassination of a Cabinet minister, two months after snatching the men in a brazen military raid on a Palestinian jail in the West Bank.

The militant Islamic Hamas today moved a step closer to taking control of the Palestinian government, calling a special session of parliament to approve its new Cabinet, sweeping aside objections from the Palestinian president over its refusal to recognise Israel.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas yesterday toured the devastated Jericho prison where Israel spirited away six prisoners, denouncing the raid as an ”unforgivable crime".

THE European Commission has warned that it could find it very difficult to disperse aid in Palestine if its offices continued to be attacked and personnel were in danger.

Acting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said today that six Palestinians grabbed from a West Bank prison will be charged and tried by Israel, despite Palestinian claims that the arrests were illegal.

Israeli officials said today that they are determined to put Palestinian prisoners seized from a West Bank jail on trial for the killing of an Israeli Cabinet minister, but will first have to overcome some legal hurdles.

ISRAELI forces smashed into a West Bank jail with tanks and bulldozers yesterday, seizing a Palestinian militant leader.

Israeli forces driving bulldozers and firing tank shells burst into a Palestinian prison in the West Bank town of Jericho today and pulled out dozens of inmates in their underwear in a raid targeting a group of prisoners linked to the killing an Israeli Cabinet minister.

Palestinian gunmen today broke into the offices of the German television network ARD in Gaza City, a Palestinian journalist working for the network said.

Israeli forces burst into a jail today in the West Bank town of Jericho, demanding the surrender of prisoners, including the mastermind of the killing of an Israeli cabinet minister.

Israeli forces burst into a jail in the West Bank town of Jericho today, demanding the surrender of prisoners, including the mastermind of the killing of an Israeli cabinet minister.

Saeb Erekat, one of the best-known world faces of the Palestinian Authority, won re-election to parliament in his home town of Jericho, beating back a challenge from a Hamas candidate.

Israel’s Labour Party has tonight voted to withdraw from Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s government.

A deadlock over Israeli troop withdrawals in the West Bank and further releases of Palestinian prisoners clouded prospects today that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas would meet this week for the first time since Israel’s Gaza Strip pullout.

Palestinian officials said today they have reached a tentative agreement to absorb about 700 gunmen in the West Bank city of Nablus into the Palestinian security services, pushing forward with a campaign aimed at disarming rogue militants roaming the Palestinian areas.