Russia blames Israel after military plane shot down off Syria
Source: BBC News Russia has said Syria shot down one of its military planes – but laid the blame for the deaths of the 15 personnel on board with Israel. […]
Palestinians still live under apartheid in Israel, 25 years after the Oslo accord
Source: The Guardian By Avi Shlaim Twenty-five years ago today the Oslo accord was signed by Israel’s prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin, and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat in the Rose Garden […]
Netanyahu accuses Europe of ‘appeasing’ Iran, calls for escalation
By AFP – Sep 13,2018 – JORDAN TIMES Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) arrives to the weekly Cabinet meeting in occupied Jerusalem on Wednesday (Reuters photo) OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — […]
Hailing from the strictest ultra orthodox Jewish community Sabiner aspires to become a doctor
‘I want to be a doctor, not a rabbi’: how Israeli ultra-Orthodox are being drawn into work Source: The Guardian From the age of three, Yehuda Sabiner harboured a secret […]
International boycott movement puts pressure on Israeli music scene
ASSOCIATED PRESS JERUSALEM Lana Del Rey performing at Coachella. (Reuters Photo) Israel’s Meteor Festival was meant to bring together indie groups from around the world in what organizers billed […]
The world cannot stand idly by while Israel’s blockade on Gaza continues to disrupt countless innocent lives
Voices https://players.brightcove.net/624246174001/BJXA5Px6f_default/index.html?videoId=5811871017001&customParams=videoID%253D5811871017001%2526articleId%253D8525796%2526gs_channels%253Desi_safe%2Cshadow9hu7_safe_from_nestle_blacklist%2Csafe_from_harvey_weinstein%2Cshadow9hu7_safe_from_asda%2Cshadow9hu7_safe_from_essence_blacklist%2Csafe_from_emirates_blacklist%2Csafe_from_emirates_crew_incident%2Csafe_from_facebook_blacklist%2Csafe_from_fas_blacklist%2Cgv_arms%2526playertype%253Dautoplay%2526topictags%253Disrael%2Cpalestine%2Cgazablockade&customTargeting=%2F71347885%2F_main_independent%2Fin_voices%2Fin_voices_article&playsinline=true In Gaza, young people’s lives are not their own. At any point they could be taken by lethal force, and every day is defined by restrictions of their […]
A new Israeli law is making this fiercely loyal sect question what it has fought for
Source: The Washington Post By Loveday Morris September 1 ISFIYA, Israel — At a military cemetery lined by conifers on the wooded slopes of Israel’s Mount Carmel, Safwan Marich walks beside the […]
Khan al-Ahmar: Israel court approves demolition of Bedouin village
Source: BBC News Israel’s Supreme Court has rejected appeals against the demolition of a Bedouin village in the occupied West Bank whose fate has been a subject of international concern. […]
US envoy sees Israel keeping Golan Heights forever
By Reuters – Sep 06,2018 – JORDAN TIMES Israeli army vehicles patrol the border fence with Syria in the Golan Heights on July 4 (AFP photo) OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — The […]
Changing the rules of the game
What lies beneath: The US-Israeli plot to ‘save’ Gaza Sep 04,2018 – JORDAN TIMES –Ramzy Baroud Israel wants to change the rules of the game entirely. With unconditional support from […]
Dangerous diversion
Sep 04,2018 -JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL While the Palestinian leadership may have discussed the federation or confederation idea between Jordan and the West Bank, Jordan is on record, and has been […]
Israel’s prescription for perpetual regional violence
Sep 04,2018 -JORDAN TIMES –Hasan Abu Nimah To disguise real issues, Israel has developed with time unparalleled skills in distraction. After messing up an already barren and confused situation with […]
Jordan-Palestine confederation issue ‘not on the table’ — gov’t
Experts say formula offers Israel escape from responsibilities By Mohammad Ghazal – Sep 04,2018 – JORDAN TIMES Palestinians react to a sound of grenade fired by Israeli forces as their machineries […]
Muslim Ahmadiyya adherents hold summit in northern Israel
August 30, 2018, Muslim Ahmadiyya adherents hold summit in northern Israel “We have one world, we should share it in a spirit of brotherhood” August 30, 2018, READ MORE: […]
India’s Bnei Menashe community sets sights on immigrating to Israel
Source: Religion News Service BY Priyadarshini Sen MANIPUR, India (RNS) — Wearing a pale-yellow tallit — the traditional Jewish prayer shawl — Aharon Vaiphei points to a map of Jerusalem […]
Iran’s Jewish community is the largest in the Mideast outside Israel — and feels safe and respected
Source: USA Today TEHRAN, Iran – In a large room off a courtyard decorated in places with Islamic calligraphy and patterned tiles featuring intricate geometric shapes and patterns, men wearing tunics, cloaks […]
Testimonies of Flotilla activists: Israel was trying to break us
The Israeli navy illegally boarded the 2018 Freedom Flotilla sailing to Gaza to break the blockade imposed on the territory since 2007 August 16, 2018 People greet the Freedom Flotilla […]
UN official: Palestinian refugee issue can’t be wished away
An estimated 700,000 Palestinians fled or were forced from their homes in the fighting in the wake of the 1948 Mideast war surrounding Israel’s creation. (AFP) AP August 24, 2018 […]
Israel is building another 1,000 homes on Palestinian land. Where’s the outrage?
Never in the field of human rights has so much been owed by so many to so few Robert Fisk @indyvoices The Independent Voices The construction of another 1,000 […]
Uri Avnery, the Israeli optimist who played chess with Yasser Arafat, has died – he was one of my few Middle East heroes
There he is in my six-year-old notebook, very much alive, still demanding peace with the Palestinians, peace with Hamas, and generosity and a Palestinian state on the old 1967 borders […]