Gaza: The Makings of a Modern Day Dystopia
Queen Rania of Jordan Queen of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan dys·to·pia [ dis-ˈtō-pē-ə] noun: an imaginary place where people are unhappy and usually afraid because they are not treated […]
AIPAC Is the Only Explanation for America’s Morally Bankrupt Israel Policy
Stephen M. Walt Professor of International Affairs, Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government The official name for Israel’s latest assault on Gaza is “Operation Protective Edge.” A better name […]
AIPAC Is the Only Explanation for America's Morally Bankrupt Israel Policy
Stephen M. Walt Professor of International Affairs, Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government The official name for Israel’s latest assault on Gaza is “Operation Protective Edge.” A better name […]
Hamas says no truce without lifting Gaza blockade
Summary Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal Wednesday stuck firmly to Palestinian demands to end a blockade on Gaza in exchange for a truce, as international efforts to halt the violence made only slow progress. Meshaal said Hamas would accept a temporary truce to allow humanitarian relief into the battered coastal territory […]
Until now, Israel is flailing in Gaza
Summary by Michael Young, Daily Star, Lebanon The war in Gaza continues while the outcome remains uncertain. The Israelis have portrayed the war as an effort to weaken Hamas, but everything they have done has strengthened the movement, after a period in which its popularity had dived domestically and its […]
More than 50 Israeli reservists refuse to serve — Washington Post
WASHINGTON — More than 50 former Israeli soldiers have refused to serve in the nation’s reserve force, citing regret over their part in a military they said plays a central role in oppressing Palestinians, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday. “We found that troops who operate in the occupied territories […]
Jordan proposes ceasefire resolution at UN Security Council
by Khetam Malkawi | Agencies | Jul 23, 2014 | JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah on Wednesday called for an immediate ceasefire of the Israeli aggression in […]
Israel maybe guilty of war crimes – UN Human Rights Chief
Russia Today: Israel maybe committing war crimes in Gaza, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights says. Speaking in Geneva, Navi Pillay said house demolitions and the killing of children […]
Gaza 2014: Old Israel in a New Middle East
PNN/Gaza By Mosab Qashoo. The military operations undertaken by both Israel and Gaza bear many resemblances to what occurred in 2008 and 2012. Military might is still just as disproportionate […]
Jordan renews support for Gaza, condemnation of Israeli assault
by Khaled Neimat | Petra | Jul 22, 2014 | 23:27 JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh on Tuesday discussed with the Japanese Parliamentary Senior Vice-Minister for Foreign […]
Jordanian volunteer doctors denied entry to Gaza via Rafah
by Merza Noghai | Jul 21, 2014 | 23:35 AMMAN — Egyptian authorities have refused to allow a Jordanian medical delegation to enter the Gaza Strip through the Rafah border crossing, Jordan Medical Association council member Bassem Kiswani said Monday. The five Jordanian doctors were part of a European delegation […]
‘Netanyahu does not want peace between Israel and Palestine’
There is not going to be peace as long as Benjamin Netanyahu is the Prime Minister of Israel; it was Netanyahu who broke off talks in April, Dr. Charles Cogan, former CIA officer, told RT. RT: Hamas says it has captured an Israeli soldier. The IDF has denied the claims, […]
Gaza conflict: Five dead at hospital hit by Israeli strike
At least five people have been killed and 70 injured by an Israeli strike on a hospital in Gaza, Palestinians say. The Israeli military said it had targeted a cache of anti-tank missiles in the hospital’s “immediate vicinity”. Overnight, more than 30 members of two Palestinian families died in Israeli […]
Gaza's crisis, Israeli ambition, and US decline
By Hillary Mann Leverett and Flynt Leverett. As Israel’s military kills and injures hundreds of civilians in Gaza – whose population Israel is legally obligated to protect as an occupying power – people around the world, including in the United States, wonder why official Washington appears so indifferent to even […]
Gaza’s crisis, Israeli ambition, and US decline
By Hillary Mann Leverett and Flynt Leverett. As Israel’s military kills and injures hundreds of civilians in Gaza – whose population Israel is legally obligated to protect as an occupying power – people around the world, including in the United States, wonder why official Washington appears so indifferent to even […]
Mahatma Gandhi on the Jews in Palestine (1938)
By Mahatma Gandhi (26-11-1938). PNN Several letters have been received by me, asking me to declare my views about the Arab-Jew question in Palestine and the persecution of the Jews […]
Massacre fails to break Gaza
Summary Israeli warplanes and tanks Sunday battered a crowded neighborhood of Gaza City, killing at least 65 Palestinians in the deadliest single incident of an onslaught that has claimed well […]
Robert Fisk: Why do television producers think a grey blob over a dead person’s face shows respect?
Robert Fisk Sunday 20 July 2014 To die is one thing – to be turned into a blob quite another matter. The blob is the weird, mystical “cloud” which weak-kneed […]
Despite war, Israel must act with magnanimity
Israel must strive for a cease-fire that would allow Gazans to live honorably and prevent another violent round in the near future. Haaretz Editorial | Jul. 19, 2014 | By Zvi Bar’el | Jul. 19, 2014 | 11:25 PM Israel’s ground operation in the Gaza Strip, which is the second […]
Israel’s chronic use of force is failing
Summary by Rami G. Khouri, Daily Times, Lebanon What does Israel expect to achieve by attacking Gaza with a large land force, following 10 days of attacking the territory from the air and suffering Palestinian counter-attacks by far less effective small rockets? That is because Israelis and Palestinians are waging […]