ARAB NEWS | Published — Monday 26 December 2016 A file photo of the construction site in the illegal Israeli settlement of Beitar Ilit in the occupied West Bank. (Reuters) JERUSALEM: In the days following the UN Security Council’s resolution affirming the illegality of Israeli settlements, it is business […]
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US abstains as Security Council passes resolution condemning Israeli settlements By AFP – Dec 24,2016 – JORDAN TIMES OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israel scrambled Saturday to contain the fallout from a […]
By MEGHAN KENEALLY Dec 23, 2016 The United Nations Security Council has passed a previously postponed vote to end Israeli settlements after the U.S. abstained from voting. U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power gave a statement after the vote saying that the U.S. chose not to vote on the […]
Source: BBC The UN Security Council has passed a resolution urging an end to illegal Israeli settlements after the US refused to veto it, instead abstaining. The motion was passed […]
Source: Associated Press By JOSEF FEDERMAN JERUSALEM (AP) — A leading Israeli think tank on Monday said it has found that Israelis are increasingly losing faith in their government and […]
Source: The Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer Jacob Salem speaks six languages. Yet if he walked into a typical synagogue service in either of the countries where he grew up […]
Dec 17,2016 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL US President-elect Donald Trump seems to have some ominous surprises up his sleeve for the Palestinians, in particular, and the Arab world, in general. He asked his long-time adviser and friend David Friedman, a hardline pro-Israel lawyer, to be the US ambassador to Israel. […]
Source: Yahoo News By Mike Smith Amona Outpost (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) – Residents of a wildcat Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank on Thursday rejected a proposal to leave […]
What is to be made certain here is that Jordan’s king is not our friend, in fact he and his regime are a part of the problem. Jordan’s King Abdullah speaks at the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, February 12, 2016. (photo credit:REUTERS) The recent United Nations Educational, Scientific […]
Dec 14,2016 -JORDAN TIMES – Daoud Kuttab The French government’s attempt to bring peace to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is moving into high gear in the weeks before the end of the year and before the change of leadership in the US. What makes the French plan interesting is that it […]
DEC. 13, 2016 (AFP/Ivan Sekretarev, File) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Two thirds of Palestinians believe the two-state solution is no longer viable and want Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to step down, a Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PSR) poll revealed on Wednesday, as the public perception of the Palestinian situation remained […]
Source: Times of Israel. Trump said during the campaign he would tear up the nuclear deal, calling it a “disastrous” and one of the worst agreements in history and has vowed to take a harder line with Tehran.This has led to concern among the Iranians and in the wider region, […]
Source: RNS By Michele Chabin JERUSALEM (RNS) Ivanka Trump and thousands of other Orthodox converts to Judaism should be automatically recognized as Jewish under a landmark set of guidelines Israel’s […]
DEC. 7, 2016 An Israeli flag displayed on a roof of a settlement in East Jerusalem is seen in front of the dome of the Al-Aqsa Mosque on Sept. 17, 2015 (AFP/Thomas Coex, File) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The Israeli Knesset Wednesday postponed for the third time a controversial bill that […]
Documents from 2009 show British intelligence services worried about Israel’s position on Iran, spying on Israeli diplomats and the military as well as the Palestinian Authority Bethan McKernan Beirut The UK’s intelligence agency GCHQ carried out surveillance on the Israelimilitary, defence firms and diplomatic missions, French newspaper Le Monde has […]
By Cnaan Liphshiz December 7, 2016 PARIS (JTA) — Although his country is entering one of the most dramatic election campaigns in recent memory, Isy Morgensztern had no intention of exercising his right to vote. A left-wing Ashkenazi Jewish filmmaker from Paris, Morgensztern was too disappointed with the ruling Socialists under […]
DEC. 6, 2016 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) – Israeli authorities Tuesday cancelled weekly permits allowing elderly Gazans to travel to occupied East Jerusalem on Fridays to attend prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque. An official at the Palestinian liaison office told Ma’an that Israeli authorities decided to cancel the weekly visits of Palestinians […]
July 14, 2014 | by Ehsan Rehan | In 1947, the issue of the division of Palestine was under discussion in the Security Council. At the wishes of Arabs, The […]
Source: Times of Israel The sheep have landed. After three years of high-level negotiations between the Israeli and Canadian governments, 119 heritage sheep, which trace their lineage back 5,000 years to the Middle East, began arriving in Israel on November 30. It is the first time that the breed, called […]