An international warrant for three Israeli citizens was issued from the Interpol headquarters in Lion: Yair Klein, Melik Ferry e Tzedaka Abraham are accused of having trained during the 90s an unknown number of farmers in order to transform them into far right paramilitaries ready to kill. The charge. The Court in Manizales asked for the warrant. During the 60s in Colombia, continue...

Polls don’t always get it right, so proceed with caution. But the results of a recent poll conducted by the University of Birzeit of Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank seem worth noticing: if elections were held today, Fatah would get 45 percent of the vote, Hamas 33 percent. Polls tell a story. continue...

After almost a century in existence, the oldest kibbutz in Israel has given in to the pressures of the modern age and decided to privatize. Degania Aleph is a kuvtza (a small kibbutz) southeast of Lake Kinneret where the Sea of Galilee meets the river Jordan. The decision to privatize will not completely undo the community’s way of life. Measures are in place that will guarantee equitable standards of living for all workers, continue...

"The problem is twofold: one of religion and one of culture. In some conflict conditions a short-circuit occurs between the two and this creates cases like that of the al-Aqsa Mosque and the Western Wall. The dispute turns into a religious allegation, and a heritage that in other circumstances would be divided becomes used as justification for conflict”. “It’s all above board”. continue...

Last week Syrian and Israeli officials took part in the Madrid Conference, 15 years after the historical Israel-Palestine Peace Conference in 1991. It had been seven years since diplomats from the two conflicting nations had officially gathered around a table. The presence of Syria and Israel at the Madrid Conference appeared to many to be the first step towards the revival of peace talks, continue...