Top Headlines
03/10/2011
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- Israel ‘risks Mid-East isolation’ (BBC Online)
- Israel accepts Quartet call for peace talks (Reuters)
- Abbas is punished by $200m US aid cut (Independent, 1/10)
- U.S. Defense Secretary to arrive in Israel to discuss Iran nuclear program (Haaretz)
- Syrian army battles defectors in rebel town as 11 more protesters killed (Guardian)
- Syrian opposition unite against Assad as civil war threatens (Telegraph)
- Palestinians accuse Israel of trickery as Netanyahu calls for return to peace talks (Telegraph, 2/10)
- Palestinian leaders renew attack on Tony Blair over Israel (Guardian, 1/10)
- We are the victims of collective punishment, say Palestinians (Independent, 1/10)
- Leading article: Unjust punishment of the Palestinians (Independent, 1/10)
- Palestinians accuse US of ‘collective punishment’ after $200m in aid is cut off (Telegraph, 1/10)
- Merkel reads Netanyahu the riot act over settlement plan (Independent)
- Arabs ‘will help Palestine’ after $200m cut in US aid (Independent)
- Syrian city close to civil war in dark vision of protest’s future (Scotsman)
- Nidal al-Mughrabi: Palestine scorns the ‘honest brokers’ (Scotsman)
- ‘Israel becoming increasingly isolated in Middle East’ (Jerusalem Post)
- Erekat: US cannot use aid as blackmail against the PA (Jerusalem Post)
- Washington welcomes Israel’s decision to return to talks (Jerusalem Post)
- PA: Quartet plan biased in favor of Israel (Jerusalem Post)
- Israel says ‘yes’ to Quartet framework for talks (Jerusalem Post)
- Shin Bet: Threat of settler violence against Israeli officials rising in West Bank (Haaretz)
- U.S. Defense Secretary: Israel increasingly isolated in Middle East (Haaretz)
- Israel to demand adjustment of Quartet Mideast peace plan, official says (Haaretz)
- Cabinet vote on Trajtenberg recommendations postponed (Haaretz)
- Livni to travel to London (Ynetnews)
- Vote on Trajtenberg Report delayed (Ynetnews)