Territorial Disputes
JERUSALEM - An Israeli high school principal has been summoned for a hearing by the country's Education Ministry for using a textbook that presents the Palestinian narrative about events surrounding Israel's creation in 1948, officials said Friday.
Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad:
July 5
New York Times on China, the sweatshop:
The labor strife spreading through China's factory cities has clearly frazzled the government.
JERUSALEM - Israeli and Palestinian officials say Israel has allowed some formerly banned food items into the Gaza Strip after widespread international criticism of its three-year-old blockade.
RAFAH, Gaza Strip - A Palestinian who had to delay graduate school in Malaysia and an elderly man forced to put off eye surgery in Egypt are among thousands anxiously trying to get out of Gaza now that the blockaded territory's gateway to the world has opened just a little.
DETROIT - Israel has denied entry to a Detroit university student of Palestinian descent traveling there for a study-abroad program.
