The future of peace with Israel
Oct 22,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – HASAN A. BARARI This week marks the 24th anniversary of the peace treaty between Jordan and Israel. Needless to say, the feeling of disillusion […]
Israel arrests Palestinian governor of occupied Jerusalem — officials
By AFP – Oct 22,2018 – JORDAN TIMES OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israeli forces have arrested the Palestinian governor of occupied city of Jerusalem for unspecified offences he allegedly committed in […]
Israel’s assault on Palestinian universities is a threat to human rights and a tragedy for this generation of students
Palestine has had to contend with Israel’s systematic obstruction of education: from enforced closures, campus raids, and the oppression of individual students and teachers, including arbitrary arrests and detention without trial Sophia […]
Christian graves desecrated in central Israel
Source: Yahoo News Beit Jamal Monastery (Israel) (AFP) – Vandals have torn down concrete crosses marking dozens of graves at a Christian cemetery in central Israel, a church official said […]
Australia considers following US on Jerusalem embassy
Source: BBC News Australia will consider recognising Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and moving its embassy there from Tel Aviv, Prime Minister Scott Morrison says. If acted upon, the move would […]
Arab lawmaker from Zionist Union quits Knesset over nation-state law
Zouheir Bahloul hands in resignation 3 months after saying he could not sit in a parliament that passed discriminatory laws; he earned over NIS 100,000 during Knesset recess By RAOUL […]
Israeli PM favors naming envoy to Christian world
Source: Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s prime minister says he favors appointing an envoy to the Christian world, a sign of Israel’s efforts to foster close ties with its […]
Celebrity Jewish-Arab wedding stirs mixed feelings in Israel
Source: Reuters JERUSALEM (Reuters) – A surprise celebrity wedding bridging Israel’s Jewish-Muslim divide drew mixed public reaction on Thursday in a country where such inter-marriage is extremely rare. Wednesday’s nuptials […]
Growing Anti-Semitism in Germany’We Are Facing a Monster’
In a DER SPIEGEL interview, Charlotte Knobloch, 85, speaks of the fears Jews in Germany have of growing right-wing populism in the country. The former president of the Central Council […]
Trump undoing his own plan by emboldening Israel
Oct 09,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – OSAMA AL SHARIF East Jerusalem Palestinians are facing a vicious onslaught as Israel begins to implement a series of measures aimed primarily at limiting […]
That single line of blood: Nassir and Mohammed
Oct 09,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMZY BAROUD As the frail body of 12-year-old Nassir Al Mosabeh fell to the ground on Friday, September 28, history was repeating itself in a most […]
Criticism of Israeli policy is not anti-Semitic
James J. Zogby 08,2018 – JORDAN TIMES I was provoked to write this discussion of what is and what isn’t anti-Semitism by an article in Haaretz on the “controversy” created by […]
King of Jordan renews position on Mideast as he meets Israeli Labour leader
Avi Gabbay vows to work for two-state solution By JT – Oct 09,2018 – JORDAN TIMES Tear gas canisters are fired by Israeli forces at Palestinians during a protest calling for […]
BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Balfour Declaration‘ by Elliot Jager
Posted by Troy Warner on September 18, 2018 By Joshua Sinai – – Monday, September 17, 2018 ANALYSIS/OPINION: THE BALFOUR DECLARATION: SIXTY-SEVEN WORDS — 100 YEARS OF CONFLICT By […]
I watched a Palestinian family lose their land 25 years ago – and this week I returned to find them
‘We don’t eat, drink or sleep. Do we stay in other people’s homes? My husband is crippled, we are both old. This is a tyranny’ Robert FiskJerusalem @indyvoices The Independent […]
Palestinians strike in protest against Jewish state law
By Reuters – Oct 01,2018 – JORDAN TIMES An Israeli soldier runs during confrontations with Palestinians in Hebron, in the occupied West Bank, on Monday (Reuters photo) RAMALLAH — Palestinians across the […]
Trump’s two-state solution: News that was no news
Oct 01,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – JAMES J. ZOGBY If we have learned anything about US President Donald Trump, it is that for him words have no meaning, or at […]
Israeli-Palestinian Divide Deepens, With No Sign of Compromise at U.N.
Source: The New York Times By Rick Gladstone The Israeli and Palestinian leaders gave diametrically different appraisals of their protracted conflict on Thursday, with speeches at the United Nations General […]
‘Seven Palestinians killed in new border confrontations’
New crime raises Palestinian death toll to 193 since March By AFP – Sep 30,2018 – JORDAN TIMES Relatives of Mohammed Al Houm, 14, who was killed during a protest […]
King of Jordan’s Diplomatic breakthrough
Sep 30,2018 -JORDAN TIME EDITORIAL His Majesty King Abdullah’s interview with Fox News last Wednesday revealed, for the first time, that for all intents and purposes it was he who convinced US […]