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Gender Divides on Both Sides of the Green Line
January 25, 2012
By Julie Holm for MIFTAH

Before moving to Palestine I had many Scandinavian friends asking me if I would have to cover up my hair while living in Ramallah. When I tell my Palestinian friends about this they laugh. In Palestine, and especially Ramallah, women are freer than in most other Arab societies. The level of education among Palestinian women is the highest in the area, women hold jobs and are active in the struggle for independence. As anywhere else in the world, however, full gender equality is not a fact in Palestine. The infamous glass roof exists here as well, and most often women are kept from holding top positions, not least of all in government. Women participate side by side with men in the fight for an independent state, but when it comes to building that state, women have little to say. It is not only in Gaza, where in recent years Hamas has imposed greater restrictions on women, in the West Bank as well, the prominent gender discourse prevents women from participating in the public sphere on the same level as men.

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'Talks' Not 'Negotiations' Continue; Jerusalem Under Attack [January 8 - January 14]
By: MIFTAH
Date: 14/01/2012
Settlement Plans Underway as Palestinians Unite [December 25 - December 31]
By: MIFTAH
Date: 31/12/2011
Reconciliation Moves Forward; so Do Settlements…Merry Christmas From the Holy Land [December 18 - December 24]
By: MIFTAH
Date: 24/12/2011

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Palestinians to Walk Away From Peace Talks
January 26, 2012
By Catrina Stewart
In The Independent

The Palestinians were last night preparing to walk away from talks with Israel aimed at reviving peace negotiations as international mediators frantically shuttled between Ramallah and Jerusalem in an attempt to keep the peace process alive. Palestinian representatives believe that negotiations have run their course as a deadline for both sides to present proposals on borders and security expires today. Israel, which has criticised the deadline as "artificial," said talks should continue.

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More Illegal Acts
January 26, 2012
By Daoud Kuttab
In The Jordan Times

Twenty-seven Palestinian parliamentarians who won in democratically organised elections are held behind Israeli bars without charge or trial. Their sin is that they dared believe in an electoral process that was hailed by democratic countries as the proper channel of political expression. Palestinian cartoonists are describing Israeli jails as the headquarters of the Palestinian Legislative Council.

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Hamas Learns Lessons From the Arab Spring
January 26, 2012
By Hugh Naylor
In The National

The rising political power of Islamists in Egypt and elsewhere in the Arab world is spurring Hamas to moderate its policies and embrace peaceful avenues for change, its deputy foreign minister says. The group is heeding the calls of these sibling movements and parties to be "more pragmatic, more open-minded", Ghazi Hamad told The National.

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