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, […]
In Israel, Trump urges new Middle East harmony but faces old suspicions
Source: The Washington Post By Karen DeYoung, Philip Rucker and William Booth May 22 JERUSALEM — President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sketched the broad outlines of a […]
Donald Trump is approaching peace between Israelis and Palestinians like a business deal – and it isn’t working
His brash language is toned down, and the rictus grin of the shiny reality TV star replaced with a sort of cock-eyed mask of sympathy. But the tactics he’s using […]
Mix of hope and skepticism as Trump meets Abbas in Bethlehem
Palestinian official says possible West Bank city ‘too embarrassed’ to put up pictures of Trump as visit to Church of Nativity nixed over protests; minister says ‘not optimistic’ of chances […]
‘Angry’ Netanyahu orders ministers to attend Trump reception
Israeli media reports say prime minister was angered to learn a number of ministers had planned to skip US president’s arrival Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered ministers to attend Donald Trump’s arrival at Ben Gurion airport. Photograph: Ronen Zvulun/AP Peter Beaumont in Jerusalem Sunday 21 May 2017 Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin […]
Fifty years after Six Day War, Jerusalem retains much of its old look
Reuters International MAY 21, 2017 – A combination picture shows men and women standing in separate sections as they visit the Western Wall, Judaism’s holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem’s Old City, in this Government Press Office handout photo, taken September 1, 1967 (top) and the same location May 17, 2017. […]
Analysis Saudi Proposal to Israel Could Be the Stuff of Trump’s Dream Deal in Mideast
Arab media’s silence following reports of Saudi Arabia and Gulf States’ plans for normalization with Israel suggests solid foundations. Its timing arises from the common interests of Arab leaders and Israel’s right wing Zvi Bar’el May 20, 2017 A view of the Middle East from the International Space Station Julian […]
Warmth and scale of Trump-Saudi embrace could spell trouble for Netanyahu
Full of flattery, the Saudis say they believe the visionary, strong, decisive US president can cut a peace deal, and they’re ready to help. But their formula is anathema to […]
Nakba, Abbas, Trump and the region
May 17,2017 -JORDAN TIMES – Michael Jansen While the 69th anniversary of Israel’s conquest of 78 per cent of Palestine was marked on May 15 by sporadic clashes in the West […]
Middle East fantasies and failures
May 18,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Rami G. Khouri My last week in the United States following the run-up to US President Donald Trump’s visit later this week to Saudi Arabia, Israel and the Vatican has only confirmed that the erratic, impulsive nature of Trump’s domestic policymaking also seems to apply […]
Controversy over Trump Israel policy ahead of visit
By AFP – May 16,2017 -JORDAN TIMES Palestinian protesters take part in a demonstration marking the 69th anniversary of Nakba, which remember those displaced at the time of the 1948 founding of Israel, near the Jewish settlement of Beit El, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, on Monday […]
Israel wants White House to explain U.S. official’s Western Wall comment
Source: Reuters By Ori Lewis | JERUSALEM Israel wants the White House to explain why a U.S. diplomat preparing President Donald Trump’s visit to Jerusalem said Judaism’s Holy Western Wall […]
Barghouthi calls on commemorating Nakba through unity, civil disobedience
Barghouthi calls on commemorating Nakba through unity, civil disobedience 3 hours ago PNN/ Ramallah/ The Media Committee of the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners’ society, present the summary of the twenty-eighth day of the collective hunger strike, which was embarked by the prisoners’ movement in […]
Tillerson: Trump weighs impact of embassy move on Middle East peace
Hani Hazaimeh | Published — Monday 15 May 2017 US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson Jeddah: US President Donald Trump is pondering whether moving the US Embassy in Israel from […]
Family of Palestinian toddler burned alive sue Israel
By AFP – May 09,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Press members wounded by Israeli forces’ tear gas and plastic bullet attack during a demonstration to show solidarity with hunger striking Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli prisons, in Betlehem, West Bank, on April 04 (Anadolu Agency photo) OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — […]
Archbishop of Canterbury to meet Palestinian and Israeli leaders
Source: BBC By Yolande KnellBBC News, Jerusalem The Archbishop of Canterbury is to meet Palestinian and Israeli political leaders as part of a 12-day tour of the Holy Land. His […]
Netanyahu tosses Hamas policy paper on Israel into waste bin
Reuters International MAY 7, 2017 – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs a weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem May 7, 2017. REUTERS/Oded Balilty/Pool (reuters_tickers) By Ori Lewis JERUSALEM (Reuters) – […]
Leading Christian cleric joins Palestinian prisoners’ hunger strike
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL A leading Christian cleric in Jerusalem announced he will join hunger strike on Monday in support of 1,500 Palestinian prisoners who are on the 21st day of […]
Christianity’s most important church?
Source: BBC Disaster struck twice over the centuries, causing extensive damage to Jerusalem’s most important church – but restoration has finally been completed. Original Story
Donald Trump hasn’t quite thought through his first foreign trip to Saudi Arabia, Israel and the Vatican
Jerusalem will be a great gig because Trump will be able to ask Netanyahu for help against Isis without – presumably – realising that Israel bombs only the Syrian army […]