The Dead Sea Scrolls are some of the most valuable religious texts known to man. Discovered between 1947 and 1956 at Khirbet Qumran, they form the oldest known versions of Biblical documents and take the form of 972 texts. Their age dates them at somewhere between 150 BCE and 70CE […]
About 5.9 million Jews and 1.6 million Arabs make up the majority of Israel’s population ahead of the coming Jewish New Year. On the eve of the Jewish new year 5772 Israel’s population stands at 7,797,400 people, of whom 5,874,300 are Jewish, 1,600,100 Arabic and 323,000 of other ethnicity (most […]
By Karin Laub, The Associated Press, Jordan Times. RAMALLAH – With combative speeches at the United Nations, the Palestinian and Israeli leaders have locked themselves into positions that seem to preclude a resumption of peace talks and usher in a season of confrontation over a Palestinian state. Palestinian President Mahmoud […]
Israel Democracy Institute survey shows that a third of the Jewish population doesn’t regard Arab citizens as “Israelis.” Disturbing signs of racism have been detected in a poll conducted in March, 2011 on behalf of the Israel Democracy Institute by the Dahaf Institute headed by legendary Israeli pollster Dr. Mina […]
FM Jimenez’s UN speech is particularly dramatic since Spain is considered a leading EU country to support Palestinian rights. Spain’s Foreign Minister Trinidad Jimenez presented a new policy for the Palestinian-Israeli conflict on Saturday, declaring Israel as the homeland of the Jews for the first time and saying that the […]
By MOHAMMED MAR’I ARABNEWS GAZA: The GCC program for the reconstruction of Gaza has succeeded to rebuild hundreds of homes destroyed during the Israeli aggression on Gaza Strip in 2008-2009. Rif’at Diab, the program coordinator in the Strip, told the Voice of Palestine Radio that the program finished the first […]
By Matthew Lee The Associated Press, JORDAN TIMES UNITED NATIONS – The Obama administration has managed to buy time and may have staved off an embarrassing and politically awkward showdown over Palestinian statehood at the UN. It may also have manoeuvred itself into a corner.The US and the rest of […]
Source: Yahoo News UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Defying U.S. and Israeli opposition, Palestinians asked the United Nations on Friday to accept them as a member state, sidestepping nearly two decades of failed negotiations in the hope this dramatic move on the world stage would reenergize their quest for an independent […]
Source: Eli Lake, NEWSWEEK (The Daily Beast) While publicly pressuring Israel to make deeper concessions to the Palestinians, President Obama has secretly authorized significant new aid to the Israeli military that includes the sale of 55 deep-penetrating bombs known as bunker busters, Newsweek has learned. In an exclusive story to […]
Source / Credit: Guardian UK The Palestinian leader is expected to hand over a letter asking for Palestine to join the UN as a state shortly before he addresses the general assembly to plead the case for admission. The Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, is scheduled to speak shortly afterwards. He […]
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Diplomats struggled to find a formula on Thursday to avoid a clash over the Middle East as time ticked down on Palestinian plans to ask the United Nations to recognise their statehood, Reuters reported. President Mahmoud Abbas is pushing ahead with plans to submit the Palestinian […]
by Brendan Work, PALESTINE NEWS NETWORK It begins like a joke and ends like a prayer: a rabbi walks into a Palestinian city and shouts, “Allahu akbar!” The rabbi is settler leader Menachem Froman, the city is Bethlehem in the southern West Bank, and in his Monday evening speech at […]
The Netanyahu government is not governed by pragmatism; it continues to be guided by the myths of Masada and Bar Kochba rather than by realistic assessment of international reality. By Carlo Strenger Israel’s strategic situation has worsened considerably in the last weeks. Turkey’s Edogan is scoring points in the Arab […]
A majority of more than two-to-one people around the world back UN recognition of Palestine as an independent state, according to a poll in 19 countries. (Ahlul Bayt News Agency) – A majority of more than two-to-one people around the world back UN recognition of Palestine as an independent state, […]
ARABNEWS US accepts the idea of a Palestinian state in principle; how can it oppose at UN? It is official. Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas has formally declared he will ask the Security Council to approve full membership of a Palestinian state at the United Nations, a move which is a […]
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has said Turkey threatened to veto Israel earlier this year in case the Jewish state establishes an office as part of NATO’s Mediterranean Dialogue initiative which Israel is a part of along with other six countries. Davutoğlu revealed in an interview with Turkish CNN TURK […]
AMMAN (Jordan Times) – His Majesty King Abdullah left on Saturday for the US to head the Jordanian delegation to the 66th session of the UN General Assembly, which will start in New York on September 19. King Abdullah will deliver an address before the UN General Assembly in which […]
Palestine is people, culture and nation that cannot be denied nor oppressed by any force, no matter how powerful it claims to be – more you oppress the people, more they will rise with determination, foresight and power to seek freedom from foreign occupation and slavery of the few. “The […]
Source / Courtesy: CNN By Isaac Herzog, Foreign Affairs This coming week, the Palestinian Authority intends to ask the United Nations to vote for Palestinian statehood during the annual session of the General Assembly. The Palestinian bid represents Israel’s greatest political challenge in years. Although the United States has promised […]
“Despite the pressures that we face, Palestine goes to the UN on the 23rd of this month to seek admission as a full member,” Abbas told Egyptian TV on Wednesday, as quoted by Agence France-Presse. On Thursday Netanyahu announced that he too would address the United Nations, to set out […]