Israel advances settlement plans despite Trump plea
By AFP – Jun 09,2017 – A rainbow is seen over the Israeli settler outpost of Amona in the occupied West Bank on January 31 (Reuters photo) OCCUPIED […]
U.S. tells U.N. rights forum to remove ‘chronic anti-Israel bias’
Reuters International JUN 6, 2017 – 14:28 U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley attends the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland June 6, 2017. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse […]
HACKED EMAILS SHOW TOP UAE DIPLOMAT COORDINATING WITH PRO-ISRAEL THINK TANK AGAINST IRAN
Zaid Jilani, Ryan Grim June 3 2017, THE EMAIL ACCOUNT of one of Washington’s most connected and influential foreign operatives has been hacked. A small tranche of those emails was […]
What I’ve Seen in 30 Years of Reporting on the Israeli Occupation
Haaretz.com: Two weeks ago on Saturday, a few dozen Israelis attended the opening of a new exhibition at the Ben Ami Gallery in south Tel Aviv…. read more:
The unwanted ‘bride’: Can the 1967 war offer opportunity for peace?
Ramzy Baroud | Published — Monday 5 June 2017 There is a saying that goes: “Be careful what you wish for, it might just come true.” This has been Israel’s dilemma from the very beginning. The Zionist movement, which held its first conference 120 years ago in Basel, Switzerland, wanted […]
No Syrian ‘Marshall Plan’ but rather protracted war — Red Cross
By Reuters – Jun 03,2017 – JORDAN TIMES A street vendor waits for customers during the holy month of Ramadan in the rebel-held Tafas town, in Deraa Governorate, Syria, on Wednesday (Reuters photo) GENEVA — Syria is unlikely to see a major “Marshall Plan” for reconstruction as peace […]
Israel spent at least ‘$20b’ on settlements since 1967
More than 600,000 settlers live among 2.9m Palestinians in West Bank and East Jerusalem By AFP – Jun 03,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Palestinians walk through an Israeli checkpoint between […]
The West should reflect on its part in prolonging the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Westerners who rail against Israel for the failure to end the conflict are being too easy on their own governments Donald Macintyre @indyvoices 116 comments Fifty years ago this Monday, on the first day of the Six Day War, Shlomo Gazit, head of the Israeli military intelligence’s assessment department, visited […]
The Past 50 Years of Israeli Occupation. And the Next.
Source: The New York Times By NATHAN THRALL An Israeli soldier praying at the Western Wall during the Six-Day War, in June 1967.CreditMicha Bar Am/Magnum Photos JERUSALEM — Three months […]
Trump Didn’t Move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem—but He Still Might
Source: The Atlantic President Trump’s campaign promise to move the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem—coupled with his reiterating this promise as a sitting president—means the administration could be forced […]
Muslim woman breaks century-high glass ceiling as the first female judge in Israel’s religious courts
Source: By Ari Plachta Hana Mansour-Khatib is pictured in her office in a small law firm in the Arab-Israeli town of Tamra. Credit: Ari Plachta Israel is often celebrated for […]
Israeli minister holds rare meeting with Palestinian premier
Occupied Jerusalem: Israel’s finance minister has met the Palestinian prime minister, Israeli officials said on Thursday, in a rare visit by an Israeli cabinet member to the occupied West Bank as part of a US peace push. Read more….http://gulfnews.com/news/mena/palestine/israeli-minister-holds-rare-meeting-with-palestinian-premier-1.2036932
Trump decides to keep U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv, at least for now
Source: Washington Post President Trump will not relocate the U.S. Embassy in Israel from secular Tel Aviv to the capital Jerusalem, at least for now, the White House announced Thursday, […]
SWISS VISIT: War crimes suit filed in Switzerland against former Israeli minister
By Simon Bradley MAY 31, 2017 – Tzipi Livni is a prominent Israeli politician. She has held various government roles including former foreign minister (2006-2009), acting prime minister and justice minister (Keystone) The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland has confirmed that it is examining a criminal […]
How Palestine disappeared from US media coverage
May 30,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Ramzy Baroud As if he had, overnight, been transformed into a master politician, US President Donald Trump’s 27-hour trip to Israel left many analysts mystified. Quoting former Israeli political adviser Mitchell Barack, The New York Times referred to Trump as the “Liberace of world leaders”, in […]
Israel approves controversial Jerusalem cable car project
By AFP – May 28,2017 – JORDAN TIMES OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israel’s government on Sunday approved plans to instal a cable car to Jerusalem’s Old City, a project likely […]
Jerusalem Day Celebration Underscores Israeli-Palestinian Divide
Source: The New York Times By IAN FISHER From left, Zion Karasenti, Yitzhak Yifat and Chaim Oshri as Israeli paratroopers at the Western Wall in 1967, left, and earlier this […]
Lanterns, Korans as Jerusalem holy site meets Ramadan
Reuters International MAY 25, 2017 – A Palestinian man prays inside al-Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest shrine in Islam, on the compound known to Muslims as al-Haram al-Sharif and to […]
MAHMOUD ABBAS, DONALD TRUMP, AND THE POLITICS OF PEACE
Source: The New Yorker By Bernard Avishai Donald Trump met Mahmoud Abbas, in Bethlehem today, a twofer for a President intent, as the national-security adviser, H. R. McMaster, put it […]
Trump administration wavers on location of Western Wall
Source: Associated Press By VIVIAN SALAMA and JOSEF FEDERMAN JERUSALEM (AP) — As President Donald Trump became the first sitting U.S. president to visit the hallowed Western Wall on Monday, […]