• Cairo a 'war zone' as demonstrators demand president quit • Protests continue in Tunisia and Lebanon • Click here for summary of key events so far Egyptians protest in central Cairo today. Photograph: Khaled El Fiqi/EPA 12.30am: That's about it for tonight. Here's a summary of the day's events. We'll have more on major developments on the guardian.co.uk homepage. • Tens of thousands of anti-gove
Self-Criticism from an Israeli, American, and Orthodox Jewish Perspective The leaks of the Palestine Papers, now being published by Al-Jazeera and the Guardian, are important on many levels and for many reasons. But after reading some of the documents, what strikes me most is the tone of condescension in the Israeli negotiators, up to Tzipi Livni – condescension, sarcasm, and the feeling of having
Earlier this month, Al Jazeera launched a new feature on its Web site called the Transparency Unit—the network’s in-house version of WikiLeaks. When the unit first went online, there was not much coverage about it in English, but that changed over the weekend when Al Jazeera announced that it had gained access to a large tranche of confidential documents, now being called the “Palestine Papers.” T
Sunni supporters of Saad Hariri blocked the main road into the neighborhood of Tariq Jadida in protest of Hezbollah’s candidate, Najib Miqati.Credit...Bryan Denton for The New York Times BEIRUT, Lebanon � A prime minister chosen by Hezbollah and its allies won enough support on Monday to form Lebanon’s government, unleashing angry protests, realigning politics and culminating the generation-long a
The United States proposed giving Palestinian refugees land in South America as a radical solution to a problem that has haunted Middle East peace talks for decades. Condoleezza Rice, the Bush administration's secretary of state, wanted to settle displaced Palestinians in Argentina and Chile as an alternative to letting them return to former homes in Israel and the occupied territories. Rice made
Palestinian negotiators privately agreed that only 10,000 refugees and their families, out of a total refugee population exceeding 5 million, could return to Israel as part of a peace settlement, leaked confidential documents reveal. PLO leaders also accepted Israel's demand to define itself as an explicitly Jewish state, in sharp contrast to their public position. The latest disclosures from thou
The Obama administration has privately made clear that it will not allow any change of Palestinian leadership in the West Bank, the leaked papers reveal, let alone any repetition of the Hamas election victory that briefly gave the Islamists control of the Palestinian Authority five years ago. That is despite the fact that the democratic legitimacy of both the Palestinian president and Fatah leader
The Palestinian Authority's anger over the leak of confidential documents about the stricken Middle East peace process is likely to be matched by outrage among many Palestinians at the revelation that their negotiators privately agreed that a token number of refugees, just 10,000, would be allowed to return to Israel. There will also be anger that the chief PLO negotiator, Saeb Erekat, is recorded
The chunky young man in Ramallah's al-Manara Square knew exactly where his anger was directed today – and it wasn't at the Palestinian negotiating team for the generous concessions it had offered to Israel. Jutting his head towards a tall office block which houses the most popular television station in the West Bank, and giving his name as Jimi, he said: "These are false allegations. Al-Jazeera sh
During weeks of protests which were met with violence by Tunisian security forces, French ministers made comments in favour of the authoritarian regime. As human rights groups condemned murders carried out by Tunisian police, the French foreign minister, Michèle Alliot-Marie, said France would lend its own police "knowhow" to help Ben Ali's forces maintain order. The French culture minister, Frédé
BAGHDAD � Deadly attacks against religious pilgrims and members of Iraq’s security forces continued on Monday, including three car bombings around the city of Karbala, where as many as 10 million marchers are expected to travel in observance of one of the most sacred holidays on the Shiite Muslim calendar. A roadside bomb in Baghdad’s Shula neighborhood wounded another five marchers. The attacks o
Al Jazeera English (AJE) broke a story on Sunday that may have the same emotive impact among Palestinians that the suicide of Mohamed Bouazizi had in Tunisia (also heavily reported by AJE). That story came in the form of over 1,600 documents apparently from the Palestinian negotiating support unit that detail meeting after meeting of Israeli, Palestinian, and U.S. officials over a decade (AJE has
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