UN Rapporteur Calls on European Union to Stop Genocide in Gaza
What remains of our humanity if we cannot react with indignation to what we are allowing to happen in Gaza,” Albanese said. On Wednesday, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on […]
Killing humanitarian workers as a strategy — Israel’s endgame in Gaza
Apr 09,2024 – JORDAN TIMES / Ramzy Baroud Israel described its clearly deliberate killing of seven humanitarian aid workers on April 1 as a “grave mistake”, a “tragic event” that “happens in war”. Israel is, obviously, lying. This entire so-called war, actually genocide, in Gaza, has been based on a […]
The importance of Land Day to Palestinians
Apr 09,2024 – JORDAN TIMES / James J. Zogby Land has always been central to the Palestinian national identity. I learned this lesson in 1971 when I spent time in […]
Türkiye to mobilize 12-nation aid flotilla for Gaza
BY DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL APR 07, 2024 – Pro-Palestinian activists wave Turkish and Palestinian flags during the welcoming ceremony for cruise liner Mavi Marmara at the Sarayburnu port of Istanbul, Türkiye, […]
‘Resisting’ Israel from Jordan, Iraq and Yemen
BARIA ALAMUDDIN April 07, 2024 For the past six months, Iran and its proxies have toyed with the Gaza war; dialing tensions up and down for their own propaganda ends, […]
‘It smells like death’: Gazans return to devastated Khan Yunis
Previous 0 seconds of 1 minute, 1 secondVolume 0% Palestinians who had taken refuge in Rafah in the Gaza Strip leave the city to return to Khan Yunis after Israel […]
The Sunni-Shia Divide
Sectarian conflict is becoming entrenched in a growing number of Muslim countries and is threatening to fracture Iraq and Syria. Tensions between Sunnis and Shias, exploited by regional rivals Saudi […]
Why Is There So Little Shia–Sunni Dialogue?
Understanding the Deficit of Intra-Muslim Dialogue and Interreligious Peacemaking by Dino Krause 1,2,*,†,Isak Svensson 1 andGöran Larsson 3 1 Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, 75120 Uppsala, Sweden 2 Danish Institute for International Studies, Østbanegade 117, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark 3 Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion, University of Gothenburg, 40530 Göteborg, […]
More than 20m pilgrims visit Prophet’s Mosque in Madinah during first 20 days of Ramadan
Previous 1 / 3 The mosque’s authority said it would continue providing integrated services and all means to comfort visitors and worshippers. (SPA) 2 / 3 The mosque’s authority said it would […]
Is Israel deterring Iran — or provoking it?
YOSSI MEKELBERG April 06, 2024 As such, it is no surprise when Israel carries out airstrikes, either in Lebanon or Syria, and even beyond, since it has been engaging in […]
UN humanitarian chief calls Gaza war ‘betrayal of humanity’
Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza has escalated into a “betrayal of humanity,” the United Nations’ humanitarian chief said Saturday. (AP/File) AFP April 06, 2024 UNITED NATIONS: Israel’s war against […]
‘This war is prophetically significant’: why US evangelical Christians support Israel
Evangelical Christianity This article is more than 5 months old One strand of evangelical theology holds that the return of Jews to the region starts the clock ticking on […]
Four environmental concerns for Gazans after the end of combat
DAOUD KUTTAB April 06, 2024 Local, regional, and international leaders are spending a lot of time trying to plan the political and security issues that need to be addressed on […]
Arab states tell Security Council to use enforcement powers to make Israel comply with ceasefire resolution
Abdulaziz Al-Wasil, the permanent representative of Saudi Arabia to the UN and the chair of the Arab Group for the month of April, called on the invocation of chapter seven […]
Young Moroccans are turning away from mosques over Gaza silence
Large and historic mosques have been conspicuously silent over the war in Gaza, while King Mohammed VI has refused to address anger over normalisation The empty esplanade of Hassan II […]
UAE Halts Bilateral Cooperation with Israel Over Killing of Aid Workers
Today, the death toll from Israel’s relentless and merciless campaign has reached over 33,000. UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Rabat – The […]
Concerns over Jordan’s stability — the view from Riyadh
DR. ABDULAZIZ SAGER April 03, 2024 Since last week, tens of thousands of people have protested at the Israeli Embassy in the Rabieh neighborhood of Amman in Jordan. Tensions have […]
Two different silences in Iran and Turkiye
EYAD ABU SHAKRA April 02, 2024 Turkish voters headed to the polls on Sunday as Turkiye’s political parties competed in local elections. This political test in Turkiye, which is one […]
Palestinians have a new government but no one is cheering
OSAMA AL-SHARIF April 02, 2024 A new Palestinian government was sworn in earlier this week in Ramallah, a few weeks after the resignation of former Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh, who […]
Israel’s irremediable defeat: On Israel’s other unwinnable war
Apr 03,2024 – JORDAN TIMES / Ramzy Baroud Historically, wars unite Israelis. Not anymore. Not that Israelis do not agree with Benjamin Netanyahu’s war; they simply do not believe that the prime minister is the man who could win this supposedly existential fight. But Netanyahu’s war remains unwinnable simply because […]