Israel to shut migrant centre and deport Africans
By AFP – Nov 19,2017 -JORDAN TIMES OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israel’s cabinet voted on Sunday to close a migrant detention centre, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced an agreement to […]
Palestinians say they won’t be blackmailed by U.S. move to close PLO office
Reuters International This content was published on November 18, 2017 8:03 PMNov 18, 2017 – 20:03 By Ali Sawafta and David Brunnstrom RAMALLAH/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Palestinian officials expressed surprise on […]
Kuwait Airways ‘within its rights’ to ban Israeli – German court
Source: BBC News A German court has ruled that a Kuwaiti airline was within its rights to refuse to carry an Israeli citizen. The ruling angered Jewish groups and others, […]
Jordan to go ahead with Red Sea-Dead Sea project despite Israel’s withdrawal threat
By Mohammad Ghazal – Nov 15,2017 – JORDAN TIMES The Red Sea- Dead Sea project is planned to generate more water for Jordan and save the Dead Sea (Photo courtesy […]
The trials of Netanyahu and Israel’s layered corruption
Ramzy Baroud | Published — Tuesday 14 November 2017 Whether or not the corruption scandals hounding Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lead to his sacking matters […]
Disorder in the British foreign policy
Chris Doyle | Published — Tuesday 14 November 2017 US President Donald Trump may have trashed all previous records in losing or firing key members of his administration, but British […]
The Mideast war risk Trump can’t ignore
Agencies November 10, 2017 Middle East tensions are flaring – again – as Lebanon becomes the new front in the regional rivalry between Sunni Saudi Arabia and Iran. But while the focus of the news has shifted from the battering of Islamic State to the repercussions of the resignation of […]
Israeli commanders reveal plans for mass evacuation of Lebanese civilians in next war
Pentagon By: Barbara Opall-Rome June 21 2017 HERZLIYA, Israel — The next war in Lebanon will be so powerfully punishing — with thousands of targets struck in the first day of an attack — that hundreds of thousands of Lebanese civilians will have to leave their homes or risk falling victim to “collateral damage,” according […]
Jared Kushner, Mohammed bin Salman, and Benjamin Netanyahu Are Up to Something
Source: The Foreign Policy Elephants in the Room And it looks a lot like a plan to squeeze Iran. By Dov Zakheim There seems to be a general consensus in […]
Priti Patel visited a hospital that treats jihadis – this is in Israel’s interests, but not the UK’s
The former Israeli defence minister Moshe Ya’alon has publicly confirmed that Israel was treating fighters under a deal to help protect the border Kim Sengupta Diplomatic Editor Thursday 9 November 2017 Syrian patients, […]
Why Israel shelved the ‘Greater Jerusalem law’
Nov 07,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMZY BAROUD The postponing of an Israeli Knesset bill that would have annexed major illegal Jewish settlements in the West Bank to the Jerusalem municipality is the result of behind-the-scenes US and, possibly, European pressure. But the story of the so-called Greater Jerusalem law […]
Could Priti Patel’s secret meetings in Israel signal a shift in British foreign policy?
Patel heads a department which has a long history of humanitarian and development funding for Palestinians. Indeed she has taken a close interest in that funding, going so far as […]
Time Out Tel Aviv marks 50 years of occupation with an issue devoted to Palestinians
Source: The Washington Post By Ruth Eglash JERUSALEM — An Israeli entertainment magazine usually featuring Tel Aviv’s vibrant arts and culture scene crossed over Israel’s controversial separation barrier this week to […]
Netanyahu associates grilled in German sub graft probe
AFP | Published — Monday 6 November 2017 JERUSALEM: Two lawyers close to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were questioned Sunday over their roles in suspected corruption around the purchase […]
This week a world leader much worse than Donald Trump is visiting the UK – but I don’t see any protest from MPs
Netanyahu is the head of a regime that closes media companies, arrests journalists, jails Palestinian activists and human rights defenders without charge or trial, and tries children in military courts with a 99 perc ent conviction rate Ben White Thursday 2 November 2017 That US President Donald Trump has not yet made an official visit to the UK is down […]
Everything wrong with Theresa May’s ridiculous assertion that we should feel proud of the Balfour Declaration
Let’s remember what the document actually said in 1917 – and consider what the Israeli ambassador to the UK said this week Robert Fisk @indyvoices Thursday 2 November 2017 11:00 […]
A country in denial over 100 years of betrayal
Chris Doyle | Published — Tuesday 31 October 2017 A country in denial over 100 years of betrayal AddThis Sharing Buttons Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to Google+Share to WhatsAppShare to RedditShare to Email The tensions over the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration are accelerating to the long-expected fever […]
How Israel is exporting its occupation to the US
Oct 31,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMZI BAROUD Israeli footprints are becoming more apparent in the US security apparatus. Such a fact does not bode well for ordinary Americans. US Senate Bill S.720 should have been a wake-up call. The bill, drafted by the Israel lobby group American Israel Public […]
Israel’s new dilemma
Oct 30,2017 -JORDAN TIMES – Hassan A. Barari Explicit in many statements coming from various Israeli politicians is one theme: a military confrontation between Hizbollah and Israel is a matter of when, not if. Apparently, Israelis seek this confrontation as a preventive war in order to prevent Hizbollah from gaining […]
Where Zionist ambition and British imperial enterprise converged
Oct 30,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – James J. Zogby This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, in which Great Britain’s foreign secretary, Lord Balfour, stated in a note to his colleague, Lord Rothchild, that “His Majesty’s Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home […]