UN Agency Plans Major Warning on Flame Virus Risk
Cnbc.com: A United Nations agency charged with helping member nations secure their national infrastructures plans to issue a sharp warning about the risk of the Flame computer virus that was […]
Pain therapy from Marijuana with out being high
Israeli researchers weed out the THC from marijuana to create a pain-relieving plant devoid of unwanted side effects The Israel Times: A new strain of cannabis promises to provide users […]
Barak warns of ‘unilateral’ moves if no Palestinian deal
AFP | May 30,2012 | JORDAN TIMES TEL AVIV — If Israel and the Palestinians cannot reach a full peace accord, Israel should pursue an interim agreement or unspecified unilateral […]
Greener ties for Jordan, Israel and US
Century21C: A cooperative triangle involving Jordan, Israel and the US turns its attention to producing alternative fuels for the two Mideast neighbors. In wealthy Western countries, renewable energy developments are a source of progress, pride and smart business. For Israel and Jordan, two Middle Eastern countries severely lacking in water […]
The surprising source of Israel’s edible exports
Israel21C: How many peppers can Peter Piper pick? Well, if the protagonist in the old tongue twister were picking them in Israel’s Arava Desert, the surprising answer is about 150,000 […]
Switzerland: Migros (chain of supermarkets) to label products from Jewish settlements
Switzerland’s largest supermarket chain, Migros, has announced it will tell its customers if products have come from Jewish settlement areas in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Migros says it […]
Israel creates thousands of “fake” Jewish tombs around Al-Aqsa Mosque
The Middle East Monitor: Al-Aqsa Association for Religious Endowment (Waqf) and Heritage has accused the Israeli occupation authorities of planting thousands of fake Jewish tombs around Al-Aqsa Mosque and the […]
President Jimmy Carter: A Fearless and Honest Peace Maker
May, 2012 Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid[1] is a New York Times Best Seller book written by Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States (1977–1981) and winner of the 2002 […]
Attempts to revive language spoken in Jesus’ time
JISH, Israel (AP) — Two villages in the Holy Land’s tiny Christian community are teaching Aramaic in an ambitious effort to revive the language that Jesus spoke, centuries after it all but disappeared from the Middle East. The new focus on the region’s dominant language 2,000 years ago comes with […]
New York will celebrate Israel’s 64th Anniversary
Big Apple’s Israeli celebration: In honor of Israel’s 64th anniversary, New York’s Empire State Building to be lit in blue and white If you happen to be in New York between June 1 and June 3 – expect a particularly exciting Israeli surprise. New York’s landmark building the Empire State […]
US Jewish groups condemn anti-African violence in Tel Aviv
Americans for Peace Now said it was due to the devaluation of democratic values in Israel The Times of Israel: Jewish groups called on Israel to protect African migrants in Israel after riots in Tel Aviv. “We hope and expect that the authorities will take effective measures to protect this […]
What right? (No human rights for the Human Rights Commissioner).
Editorial THE JORDAN TIMES May 27,2012 | 23:08 The tenure of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has been halved under pressure from the US and, no […]
In a first, U.S. declares 5 million Palestinians to be refugees: report
BEIRUT: For the first time, the U.S. government said it considers the descendants of those who fled or were expelled from Palestine in 1948 to be refugees, Foreign Policy magazine reported Friday. The U.S. has also placed the number of Palestinian refugees – who live in the West Bank, Gaza […]
Poll: Majority of Germans see Israel as ‘aggressive’
The Jersulem Post: Head of Germany’s Jews alarmed about negative view of Israel, rejection of responsibility toward Jewish state by Germans. Berlin. Dr. Dieter Graumann, the head of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, told the mass circulation Bild newspaper on Thursday that he is “worried and sad” about […]
Israel takes back promise to Obama not to attack Iran before the election
Russian TV: Sources from inside Washington, DC are telling the international media that Israeli leadership is upset with US President Barack Obama’s handling of Iran’s alleged nuclear threat and may […]
Jerusalem Must Be Partitioned, Former Israeli Prime Minister Olmert Says
The Palestinian Chronicles: Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has told Israeli officials that they must partition Jerusalem if they really want peace. “No Israeli government since 1967 has done even a smidgen of what was needed in order to unify the city in practical terms. That is a tragedy […]
Canada had lost sight of religious freedom as human right, Baird says
Mr. Baird’s speech mentioned the persecution of religious groups including Buddhists and Muslims in Myanmar, Ahmadiyya Muslims, and Baha’i. But it dealt most extensively with the targeting of Jews and Christians…….. He said that Canada now will “stand with the Jewish state.” OTTAWA— Globe and Mail Update: Foreign Minister John […]
Tel Aviv race riot flags bitter immigration dispute
AFP | May 24,2012 | JORDAN TIMES TEL AVIV — Violent race riots that shook south Tel Aviv overnight sparked shock in Israel on Thursday, but also prompted top-level calls […]
Religious communities can live together peacefully and harmoniously~Odeh Muhammad Sharif of Haifa, the head of the Ahmadi Islamic community in Israel.
Religious leaders discuss their commonalities Source: THE JERUSALEM POST. By JEREMY SHARON 05/24/2012 03:32 Forty religious leaders from the Muslim, Christian, Druse, Bahai, Ahmadi and Jewish faiths in the North gather for meeting. An imam, a priest and a rabbi walk into a yeshiva. This is not the beginning of […]
Not All Israeli Citizens Are Equal
The New York Times I’M a Palestinian who was born in the Israeli town of Lod, and thus I am an Israeli citizen. My wife is not; she is a Palestinian from Nablus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Despite our towns being just 30 miles apart, we met almost 6,000 miles away […]