Instead of freeing Palestinian prisoners, new scheme aims at punishing their families
Feb 01,2022 – JORDAN TIMES / RAMZY BAROUD A scheme is under way to withhold or to reduce payments made by the Palestinian Authority (PA) to the families of […]
US lawmakers’ double standards on Israel
RAY HANANIA February 02, 2022 Short Url https://arab.news/g9kbz Amnesty International this week became the latest human rights organization to label Israel an apartheid state, while calling for the international community […]
Time short to save Lebanon from a self-inflicted demise
DR. ABDEL AZIZ ALUWAISHEG February 01, 2022 Short Url https://arab.news/vcbh4 Friday marks the first anniversary of the assassination of Lokman Slim, a well-known Lebanese Shiite publisher and commentator and a […]
US State Department calls for ‘full accountability’ from IDF over death of elderly Palestinian-American
Men stand next to a poster of Palestinian Omar Abdalmajeed As’ad, in Jiljilya village in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, January 12, 2022. (Reuters) Short Url https://arab.news/89nry ARAB NEWS February 02, […]
Vatican envoy slams Lebanese political class during Beirut visit
BY REUTERS BEIRUT FEB 01, 2022 – 1:39 PM GMT+3A man walks through a snow-covered road in Lebanon’s historic city of Baalbek in the eastern Bekaa Valley, Jan. 27, 2022. (AFP […]
French region cancels subsidies to festival over Muslim woman mural
BY ANADOLU AGENCY PARIS JAN 29, 2022 – 9:17 AM GMT+3Murals made by artist Quebeuls on the walls of the village of La Roche de Rame, Jan. 25, 2022. (Reuters File […]
Rights of the elderly
DIMAH TALAL AL-SHARIF February 02, 2022 Short Url https://arab.news/y5hsc My article today is one of the closest to my heart because it touches on the rights of our dear elders. […]
Expose of Israeli apartheid systems that cannot be dismissed as antisemitic smear
CHRIS DOYLE February 02, 2022 Short Url https://arab.news/pqn6s Even before the 280-page report was published, the screams of fury, the smears and the lies deluged the online world. It was […]
Israel’s apartheid against Palestinians: a cruel system of domination and a crime against humanity
Israeli authorities must be held accountable for committing the crime of apartheid against Palestinians, Amnesty International said today in a damning new report. The investigation details how Israel enforces a […]
Disaster in Yemen: Saudi, the West and warnings of Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad (aa)
22nd January 2022 Ata-ul-Haye Nasir, Al Hakam A few days ago, a suspected drone attack by Yemen’s Houthi movement targeting a key oil facility in Abu Dhabi killed three people and started a […]
US defers to Israel on issue of Palestinian prisoners
RAMZY BAROUD January 31, 2022 Short Url https://arab.news/8d3bu A scheme is underway to withhold or reduce payments made by the Palestinian Authority to the families of Palestinian prisoners. According to […]
Why Yazidi survivors of Daesh enslavement and their children are stuck in limbo in Iraq
Children believed to be from the Yazidi community, who were captured by Daesh fighters, are pictured after being evacuated from the embattled Daesh holdout of Baghouz. (AFP/File Photo) Short Url […]
UN reiterates commitment to 2-state solution for Palestine
BY ANADOLU AGENCY ANKARA JAN 29, 2022 – 12:07 PM GMT+3U.N. logo pattern on a press conference background at the United Nations headquarters, New York, U.S., Sept. 3, 2013. (AP File […]
All bets off for Lebanon after Hariri’s withdrawal
BARIA ALAMUDDIN January 30, 2022 Short Url https://arab.news/6ddmq Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib, en route to the Arab foreign ministers’ meeting in Kuwait, declared: “I am not going there […]
How the world is failing the Afghan test
HAFED AL-GHWELL January 30, 2022 Short Url https://arab.news/2jsfv If 2021 was marked by the return of the US to global institutions and the restoration of confidence in international action, developments […]
We should call settler violence what it is … terrorism
YOSSI MEKELBERG January 30, 2022 Short Url https://arab.news/mgve3 When Israeli Public Security Minister Omer Bar-Lev, in a meeting with a visiting US diplomat, dared to express his concern over “settler […]
Lessons from a failed ‘Palestinian’ film
OPINIONOPINION,Opinions|Cinema What went wrong with Mohamed Diab’s ‘Amira’? Hamid DabashiHamid Dabashi is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Published On 21 Jan 2022 […]
Book sheds light on Israel role in destruction of Jerusalem Mughrabi quarter
Issued on: 28/01/2022 – Jerusalem (AFP) – After the 1967 Six-Day War, Israel planned the “destruction” of Jerusalem’s historic Mughrabi neighbourhood at the base of the Western Wall but tried to hide […]
West, US claims having ‘values’ but continues to allow Israel colonise Palestine
Jan 05,2022 – JORDAN TIMES / MICHAEL JANSEN Over the holidays I began a book I read many years ago. The book is “Dust in the Lion’s Paw,” by Freya […]
Golan is not the first retired Israeli general to become a peacenik, nor will he be the last
Jan 26,2022 – JORDAN TIMES MICHAEL JANSEN Yair Golan is not the first retired Israeli general to become a peacenik, nor will he be the last. This has become a […]