Taking its lead from the United Nations which voted to recognise Palestine as a non-member state in November, search giant Google has changed the tagline for the Palestinian edition of its Google.ps wesbite from “Palestinian Territories” to “Palestine”.
Violence has returned to Palestine with an Israeli airstrike in Gaza killing a “jihadi”, whilst an Israeli settler was killed by a Palestinian in the West Bank, with settlers attacking a Palestinian school bus and nearby villages in retaliation.
President Barack Obama’s visit to the Middle East presents an opportunity to move the dormant Palestinian-Israeli peace process forward.
An international fact-finding mission on Israeli settlements in Palestine commissioned by the UNHCR found that settlements constituted a violation of international human rights and humanitarian law and called on Israel to stop all expansions immediately and withdraw from settlements.
Israel has introduced separate bus lines for Jews and Arabs, traveling from the West Bank to Israel, starting today [March 4, 2013].…