Top Headlines
31/05/2011
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- Hundreds cross Egypt-Gaza border on reopening (Sunday Times, 29/5)
- Two dead as Syrian government forces use tanks (Sky News Online, 30/5)
- Palestinians plan to bring statehood bid to UN Security Council by July (Haaretz, 31/5)
- PM: We can’t stop UN recognition of Palestine (Ynetnews, 31/5)
- Syrian death toll rises as military widens crackdown (Guardian, 31/5)
- Letters: The difficulty of neutrality on Israel (Guardian, 31/5)
- Stuxnet attack forced Britain to rethink the cyber war (Guardian, 31/5)
- UK developing cyber-weapons programme to counter cyber war threat (Guardian, 31/5)
- Response (Guardian, 30/5)
- Syria offers to cooperate on nuclear inquiry (Guardian, 29/5)
- Going back to Lifta: a Palestinian exile returns – video (Guardian, 29/5)
- The ruined village Palestinians will never forget (Guardian, 29/5)
- David Cameron resigns as patron of the Jewish National Fund (Guardian, 29/5)
- Bereaved author David Grossman writes novel about loss of a child (Guardian, 29/5)
- Hundreds of Palestinians cross reopened Gaza-Egypt border (Guardian, 28/5)
- Letters: Arab revolutions and the world’s hypocrisy (Guardian, 28/5)
- Who cares in the Middle East what Obama says? (Independent, 30/5)
- Syrian troops and tanks storm two ‘rebel’ towns (Independent, 30/5)
- A rare taste of freedom as Egypt opens its doors to Gaza (Independent, 30/5)
- Egypt permanently opens Gaza border crossing (Independent, 30/5)
- Assad sends in tanks and helicopters (Times, 30/5)
- Cameron withdraws patronage of Jewish charity accused of displacing Palestinians (Times, 30/5)
- Israeli group faces backlash over Iran (Financial Times, 30/5)
- Syria protests escalate over death of boy (Financial Times, 29/5)
- Shell accused over Syrian oil exports (Financial Times, 29/5)
- Syrian forces meet armed resistance (Scotsman, 31/5)
- Christopher Hill: Global support is vital if the Middle East peace process is to finally succeed (Scotsman, 31/5)
- At least five dead as Syria uses tanks to halt protests (Scotsman, 30/5)
- Gaza’s relief as blockade is lifted (Scotland on Sunday, 29/5)
- Eleven killed in wider Syria military push: lawyer (Reuters, 29/5)
- Egypt spokeswoman: ‘The beginning has started’ (BBC Online, 30/5)
- Israel’s ‘cold peace’ with Egypt (BBC Online, 30/5)
- Legal battle over an abandoned Palestinian village (BBC Online, 30/5)
- Attorney General to investigate Israeli company’s Iran dealings (Haaretz, 31/5)
- Vice PM: Strike on Iran could be necessary (Haaretz, 31/5)
- Palestinians prepare for ‘Naksa’ marches on Israel’s border (Jerusalem Post, 31/5)
- Ya’alon: military strike may be needed to stop Iran nukes (Jerusalem Post, 31/5)
- Flotilla passengers were in Jordan ‘Nakba’ protest (Jerusalem Post, 31/5)
- Iran cleric: Killing kids OK (Ynetnews, 31/5)
- IHH: Israel won’t dare attack us (Ynetnews, 31/5)