Jun 09,2016 -JORDAN TIMES – George S. Hishmeh The French-sponsored conference that was attended by senior representatives of 26 countries, including senior French and American officials, has failed to outline the next step towards reaching the two-state solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict now approaching 50 years. This disappointing outcome underlines the […]
Source: Times Of Israel BY RAPHAEL AHREN MOSCOW – Israeli minister Uri Ariel proposed removing “a few thousand Arabs” from Area C of the West Bank –– the 60% of […]
Source: Washington Post By ISABEL KERSHNER JERUSALEM — The Israeli police briefly detained a leader of a Jewish women’s rights group on Tuesday for bringing a Torah scroll to the […]
Source: Associated press By DANIELA BERRETTA Christian nuns watch as a team of experts begin the renovation of Jesus’ tomb in the Church JERUSALEM (AP) — A team of experts […]
Source: Aljazeera Israeli police deployed in large numbers in Jerusalem to secure an annual march marking Israel’s 1967 invasion and subsequent occupation of the Palestinian-dominated eastern half of the city, which […]
Jun 04,2016 -JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL Israel has dampened down any hope that the French initiative of convening a meeting in Paris on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict could be in any way successful, even before the meeting started. Dore Gold, the head of Israel’s foreign ministry, went as far as to compare […]
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Jun 02,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – GEORGE S. HISHMEH The upcoming international conference to relaunch Palestinian-Israeli peace efforts, sponsored by French President Francois Hollande and to be held in Paris on June 3, is rife with serious damaging problems precipitated by Israel’s right-wing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who expanded his […]
May 28,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – EDITORIAL Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to appoint ultra hardliner Avigdor Lieberman as defence minister is alarming and provocative in the extreme. Lieberman was added to the Netanyahu Cabinet after the resignation of defence minister Moshe Yaalon who accused Netanyahu of recruiting extremists […]
By Reuters – May 26,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Palestinian mourners carry the bodies of Maram Abu Ismail, 23, and her brother Ibrahim Taha, 16, who were shot dead by Israeli forces last month at the Qalandiya checkpoint after attempting to carry out a stabbing attack, during their funeral in the […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY SAMANTHA SMITH AND CARROLL DOHERTY5 COMMENTS Far more Americans continue to sympathize more with Israel (54%) than with the Palestinians (19%) in the Middle East dispute, according to our recent foreign policy survey. And half of Americans (50%) think a way can be found for […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY MICHAEL LIPKA Israel has been a Jewish-majority country since its founding in 1948, and its treatment of religious and ethnic minorities – including some groups within the Jewish community – has persisted as a hotly debated topic throughout the nation’s history. That debate continues today. For […]
Source: The New York Times By JASON HOROWITZ and MAGGIE HABERMAN A bitter divide over the Middle East could threaten Democratic Party unity as representatives of Senator Bernie Sanders of […]
Source. Times of Israel Khamenei has repeatedly threatened to annihilate the Jewish state, and in September 2015 suggested Israel would not be around in 25 years. In a quote posted to Twitter by Khamenei’s official account on September 9, 2015, Khamenei addressed Israel, saying, “You will not see next 25 […]
AFP | Published — Tuesday 24 May 2016 Israeli soldiers and police gather around the body of a Palestinian (front) who was allegedly shot in head by an Israeli soldier in West Bank town of Hebron, in this March 24, 2016 photo. (AFP) JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu […]
PNN/ Gaza/ Israeli Naval Forces on Sunday morning have have arrested eight fishermen off the Sudaniya shores, northeast of Gaza city. The Official News Agency, WAFA, said that according to fisherman […]
By AFP – May 21,2016 -JORDAN TIMES Israeli forces stand guard next to their armoured vehicle during confrontations with Palestinians following a demonstration against the expropriation of Palestinian land by Israel, on Friday (AFP photo) OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israel’s defence minister resigned Friday, saying extremists had taken over the […]
Source: RNS By Emily McFarlan Miller Emily McFarlan Miller is a national reporter for RNS based in Chicago. She covers evangelical and mainline Protestant Christianity. and Lauren Markoe Lauren Markoe […]
By Reuters – May 16,2016 – JORDAN TIMES OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — A century after Britain and France secretly mapped out a Middle East they would control upon defeating the Ottomans in World War I, its borders have been blurred by sectarian bloodshed — and some in the region see […]
By AFP – May 15,2016 – An Israeli soldier asks a protester with a Palestinian flag to go further during confrontations following a rally to commemorate the ‘Nakbeh’ or ‘catastrophe’ in Arabic in reference to the creation of Israel in 1948 on Palestinian land on Sunday in the […]