What If the Children Dying in Gaza Were Jews?
They Made Them Do It…. BY ROBERT BONOMO Let’s do a thought experiment and imagine that the Arabs had gotten the better of the Israelis in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War […]
On Israel’s Defeat in Gaza
FP: by David Rothkope — In the end, Israel lost in large part because despite its massive military and resource and advantages and Palestinian poverty and the comparative weakness of Hamas’s fighters, the Palestinians have one secret weapon that, like the images and narrative of the past conflict, trumps the […]
Gaza: Israeli-Palestinian indirect talks begin in Cairo
Source: BBC Indirect talks between Israeli and Palestinian representatives are taking place in the Egyptian capital Cairo. They come after a four-week conflict in Gaza that has claimed more than […]
British Minister Warsi Quits Over Gaza Policy
Source: Yahoo News London (AFP) – A Foreign Office minister who was the first Muslim to sit in the British cabinet dramatically resigned on Tuesday over what she called the government’s “morally indefensible” policy on Gaza. The surprise decision by Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, who also had responsibility for faith and […]
The Real Danger to Israel Comes from Within
Gaza Crisis: ‘The Real Danger to Israel Comes from Within’ Interview Conducted by Julia Amalia Heyer, Der Spiegel DPA Rubble of destroyed houses in the southern Gaza Strip after the Israeli withdrawal on Tuesday: “I think Israelis have lost what we can call a ‘humanitarian sensibility,’ the capacity to identify […]
When Israel Remembers Their Covenant, They Will Change The World
Huff Post: by Dr. David Liepert — Up here in Canada, I’m a pretty popular Muslim, even though I’ve been defending Israel’s right to live safely and securely in God’s Holy Land for as long as I’ve been a Muslim. More important than that though — by far — is […]
Dress the Gaza situation up all you like, but the truth hurts – The world is starting to turn against Israel
There was a time when our politicians and media had one principal fear when covering Middle East wars: that no one should ever call them anti-Semitic. So corrosive, so vicious […]
Israeli troops ‘withdraw from Gaza’
Israel has announced the withdrawal of all of its troops to “defensive positions” outside the Gaza Strip. The move came moments before the latest truce – brokered by Egyptian mediators late on Monday – came into force at 08:00 local time (05:00 GMT). READ MORE…
CONFERENCE CALL WITH NCIC-RESHMA INAMDAR
This is a quick report: Dear Sister Reshma: Assalamo Allaikum Wa Rahmatullah! May Allah bless you for hosting the conference call on a very, very important issue. I am glad you had GAZA in your mind when you sent the invitation. I was in my car and cell phone died […]
Albert Einstein’s search for God — An Islamic Perspective
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Was Einstein a monotheist, deist, pantheist, or an atheist? How did his religion affect his science Agnostics, […]
9 Facts About the Israel-Palestine Conflict On Which We Can All Agree
Huff Post: by Qasim Rashid — Simply open your mouth on Israel-Palestine, and faster than you can blink you’ll be labeled either a heartless Zionist or a Hamas terrorist. Both extreme labels are equally fruitless. If we cannot find a middle ground in dialogue, how can we expect Israel and […]
Israel rejects talks as it signals end to Gaza attacks
Israel has rebuffed attempts to negotiate an end to the Gaza conflict amid signs that it may be moving towards unilaterally declaring a halt to fighting without an agreement that would involve concessions to Hamas. The decision to spurn fresh talks in Cairo aimed at forging a ceasefire deal came as the Israeli […]
A Venerable Jewish Voice for Peace
Source: Democracy Now By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan The Israeli assault on the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip has entered its fourth week. This military attack, waged by […]
What about a Palestinian’s right to freedom?
Epigraph: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, […]
Gaza: how international law could work to punish war crimes
Source: The Guardian UK By Geoffrey Robertson The security council will be vetoed, but now that Palestine is a state there’s another route to justice For three weeks, the world has […]
The Palestinian tunnels show a determination to fight Israeli rule
Summary The Palestinian tunnels show a determination to fight Israeli rule In turn, I am stunned that the Israelis were stunned, because they seem unable to grasp the nature of the conflict they are engaged in against all Palestinians. Anyone who uses traditional political, diplomatic or military criteria to analyze […]
Dress the Gaza situation up all you like, but the truth hurts. – The world is starting to turn against Israel
by Robert Fisk, The Independent There was a time when our politicians and media had one principal fear when covering Middle East wars: that no one should ever call them […]
Why are the Arabs deaf to Gazan pleas?
In recent weeks, we have once again been seeing the images of destruchttp://www.themuslimtimes.org/wp-admin/edit.phption, death, smoke and fire with Palestinian residents of Gaza wandering about in the ruins of what once was their neighborhood. “Where are the Arabs?” they have asked the television cameras, aiming with two words in Arabic the […]
‘No Evidence’ Kidnapped Israeli Is British
Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond has said there is no evidence to suggest that a soldier reported to have been abducted by Hamas is a British citizen. It has been reported that 23-year-old Hadar Goldin, who kidnapped on Friday morning, held British citizenship. Mr Hammond said the abduction was still being investigated, […]