Ramallah, China News

A Palestinian demonstrator prepares to hurl a stone toward Israeli troops during a protest May 25, 2012, against the expansion of the nearby Jewish settlement of Halamish in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, near Ramallah.

Mahmoud KhaderGaafar lives with his wife Majd and their one-year-old daughter Maryam in his parents' house in Gaza City.

One of the more brazen initiatives in the Jewish world today is Peter Beinart's call, in his book "The Crisis of Zionism," to boycott anything produced in the Jewish settlements of Judea and Samaria .

There's an exhibition featuring sci-fi, history, video games, sexuality, soap operas, censorship and a powerful sense of humour at Cornerhouse in Manchester right now.

Named for the crash site of an airforce plane shot down during the Six Day War in 1967, Givat HaMatos may yet prove the place where Palestinian hopes of a creating a capital in Jerusalem also plunge to earth.

Israeli forces demolished a home in East Jerusalem on Monday on the pretext that it was being built without a permit, Wafa news agency reported.

Security agents crack a terrorist cell that roamed Judea and Samaria and failed several times to kidnap residents, especially women.

IMEMC & Agencies: Palestinian News Network, PNN, reported from Hebrew radio that about 1500 settlers entered Joseph's Tomb in Nablus late last Thursday night and early Friday morning, guarded by the Israeli military.

Actor Edward James Olmos is sitting at a Jerusalem cafe. For the better part of two weeks, this 65-year-old American actor-director, and star of television and the big screen, has traveled the length of Israel.

IMEMC & Agencies: A number of extremist Israeli settlers invaded, Thursday, Einabous village, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and torched a Palestinian car.

Some Palestin-ians marked Nakba Day with riots and rock throwing, while a rally in Ramallah drew thousands and later turned violent.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas attends the swearing-in ceremony of the new Palestinian government at the Palestinian Authority headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah on May 16.

The reshuffled Palestinian Authority government will be sworn in Wednesday at 6 p.m. officials said, in a move that Hamas condemned and labeled illegitimate.

Replying to a Chester County constituent's e-mail regarding Middle East tensions, Pitts wrote on April 20 that "it is now incumbent on Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasir Arafat" to hunker down at the negotiating table.

ULPANA, Beit El, Occupied West Bank - The European Union this week continued the international condemnation of Israel's policy of building settlements in largely Palestinian areas.

Army radio reports 4 security personnel were hurt in annual Nakba Day riots featuring stones, firebombs, burning tires and explosives Army radio reported that at least four Israeli security personnel were hurt in annual "Nakba Day" clashes with Arabs from Palestinian Authority enclaves in Judea and Samaria on Tuesday Hundreds of PA residents threw ... (more)

BEITUNIA CHECKPOINT, Palestinian Territories: Clashes broke out near Ramallah on Tuesday as around a thousand Palestinians gathered to mark the "catastrophe" which befell them when Israel was founded in 1948.

Palestinian women, one holding a photograph of a prisoner, participate in a solidarity protest with Palestinian prisoners jailed in Israeli, in Gaza City, Monday, May 14, 2012.

Koola Al Khmaiyasi and Amal Al Mshaikhi who got the rare opportunity to visit Palestine; and right, Koola with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah.

An Israeli letter handed to the Palestinians was not enough to revive peace talks, because it gave no "clear answers" to Palestinian conditions for such talks, officials said Sunday, DPA reported.