Story Summary Security sources say the three were part of a local Salafist-jihadist group that planned to carry out attacks against Israeli targets in the West Bank. In the past two years, Israel had reported targeting militant cells bearing some connection to Al-Qaeda in the north of the West […]
If passed, the bill would allow 3.5 million Sephardic Jews to claim citizenship By Lily Wilf|February 12, 2014 7:10 PM|Comments: 12 Shlomo Moshe Amar, the former Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel, during his visit to Granada’s Alhambra on May 31, 2011, the first ever official visit by a […]
Source: New York Times By ISABEL KERSHNERFEB RAMALLAH, West Bank — A decade ago, after the suicide bombings of the second Palestinian uprising, Israelis mostly came to Ramallah and the […]
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JERUSALEM: Israeli newspapers bristled Thursday after the European Parliament president criticized the Gaza Strip blockade and suggested that Israelis received four times more water than Palestinians. The spat erupted […]
Many Jerusalem residents believe not only that the Messiah will return, but that his arrival is imminent – so imminent they have taken legal precautions to ensure they can return to Jerusalem immediately upon his return. In apartment contracts around the city, there are clauses stipulating what will happen to the apartment […]
Ref: dailymail.co.uk | foxnews | timesofindia There are too many camels in the Bible, out of time and out of place!!! Do camels prove that the Bible is inaccurate? Archaeologists reveal mammals were domesticated in 900BC – […]
Secret Terms in the American Framework for the Peace Negotiations PNN [2/12/2014 1:25:10 PM] AMMONNEWS – The American framework for a peace agreement, has turned out to have secret terms written within. One of these terms disallow Palestinians who have foreign nationalities to make use of the right of return. […]
The Israeli regime has rejected a proposal by the Palestinian Authority to place a NATO force in the Jordan Valley. The Washington Post on Saturday quoted U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry as saying that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “has made it clear that he doesn’t want NATO” troops […]
Hassan Barari ARABNEWS.COM On the whole, Israelis have a problem of making a distinction between anti-Semitic observations that some made and the right to be critical of Israeli policies. Many in Israel tend to label any non-Israeli who blame Israel for the collapse of the peace process as anti-Semite. The […]
By Erica Chernofsky: BBC News, Jerusalem Intermarriage – when Jews wed non-Jews – has been called a threat to the future survival of the Jewish nation. So what happened when there were reports that the Israeli prime minister’s son was dating a Norwegian non-Jew? The Norwegian daily Dagen last week reported […]
February 08, 2014 12:15 AM By Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star The widespread anticipation among what seems like just 27 people in the United States who follow the ongoing Palestinian-Israeli peace negotiations is that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will soon table a set of American positions or […]
Fri Feb 7, 2014 6:10PM Clashes have erupted between Palestinian worshippers and Israeli soldiers at the al-Aqsa Mosque in the West Bank city of East al-Quds (Jerusalem). The clashes broke […]
Opinion/Editorial How “historic” Israel-Jordan water deal leaves Palestinians high and dry Clemens Messerschmid and Muna Dajani The Electronic Intifada 4 February 2014 The Dead Sea’s unique ecology could be further damaged – along with Palestinian water rights – by new Israeli-Jordanian deal. (Colin Tsoi/Flickr) World media recently lauded a new […]
by Khaled Neimat | Feb 05, 2014 JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Jordan is not being kept in the dark about developments in the US-brokered Palestinian-Israeli peace talks, Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour told deputies on Tuesday. Jordan is a key player in the efforts to ensure a fair agreement is reached, […]
Abbas, in an interview published by the paper on Sunday, shifted from his insistence on a three-year time frame for Israel’s withdrawal from occupied territories under any future peace […]
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israel and Washington were at loggerheads on Sunday after senior Israeli figures attacked US Secretary of State John Kerry for warning of a growing boycott threat if peace talks fail. The latest spat erupted a day after Kerry warned of the potential economic impact on Israel if the […]
February 01, 2014 12:05 AM By Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star STORY SUMMARY If you think the controversy of actress Scarlett Johansson’s relationships with Oxfam and the Israeli company SodaStream is a minor side story about Hollywood celebrities, think again. This is the latest signal of a major direction […]
February 03, 2014 12:15 AM By David Ignatius The Daily Star STORY SUMMARY Hoping to understand the current Israeli-Palestinian negotiations in human terms, I made a visit last week to a Palestinian farmer named Hammadeh Kashkeesh, whom I first met 32 years ago. First, try to imagine the landscape, and […]
STORY SUMMARY Israeli soldiers shot and wounded 10 Palestinians near the West Bank town of Ramallah Friday during a protest over the killing of a teenager, Palestinian medics and security […]