Rally calling for closure of Israeli embassy in the Jordanian capital could mount into scenes like those seen in Cairo by Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian Staff at the Israeli embassy in the Jordanian capital Amman left the city ahead of a demonstration planned for Thursday evening, fearing a repetition of […]
Obama: Palestinian statehood vote at UN would be counterproductive U.S. president says he would oppose vote if it reaches the UN Security Council, calls efforts ‘distraction’. U.S. President Barack Obama said Monday that if the Palestinians try to achieve statehood in the United Nations Security Council, the U.S. would oppose […]
AMMAN (Jordan Times) – His Majesty King Abdullah on Monday reiterated that resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict on the basis of the two-state solution is the path to achieve peace and stability in the Middle East. During a meeting with international Quartet for Mideast peace representative Tony Blair, the two sides discussed […]
Source / Courtesy: The National Interest By Benny Morris “Israel will exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it [a reference to the Medieval Crusader kingdoms],” states the 1988 Charter or constitution of the fundamentalist Muslim Hamas, the organization that rules the Gaza Strip and […]
Haaretz: Here destruction is met with a resolve to do good. Rabban Yohanan ben Zakkai is able to look past the tragedy. He seeks to rebuild his broken world on hesed, loving kindness, as it teaches in the book of Psalms. His words of comfort lay out a vision for […]
JERUSALEM — The Palestinians will announce Monday what path they will take to seek UN membership or some other form of recognition as an independent state by the world body this month, the Palestinian UN envoy said Friday. Riyad Mansour told reporters on Friday that the Palestinian leadership will make […]
Reuters: Obama administration urges Egypt to protect embassy * Israel appeals for American help * Israel ambassador, family, staff fly back to Israel * At least 450 injured (Adds state TV says ambassador leaves, confrontations continue) By Sami Aboudi CAIRO, Sept 10 (Reuters) – Hundreds of Egyptians stormed the building […]
For Palestinians, justice is delayed and still denied Montreal Gazette: By Thomas Woodley Irwin Cotler says the time isn’t right for Palestinian statehood (“The time isn’t right for statehood bid” Opinion, Sept. 8). If not now, when? The Palestinian territories satisfy all of the requirements for statehood under international law. […]
Jerusalem fights back: Foreign Minister Lieberman formulates series of tough moves in response to Turkish steps; Israel to cooperate with Armenian lobby in US, may offer military aid to Kurdish rebels Jerusalem to punish Erdogan: Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has decided to adopt a series of harsh measures in response […]
Haaretz: “After I became convinced that the building in Abu Tor was destined to be used for Hamas activities, I am ordering it shut until October 4, 2011,” read the order posted on the buildings door. Sixty-four kindergarten children in the Abu Tor neighborhood of Jerusalem are sitting at home […]
A former government scientist who helped discover water on the moon, worked on the Reagan-era “Star-Wars” ballistic missile defense program and ran a variety of highly classified projects for NASA, the Defense Department and the Department of Energy pleaded guilty this morning to attempted espionage charges for his efforts to […]
Source / Courtesy: CNN Istanbul (CNN) — Turkey’s fiery prime minister ratcheted up rapidly-escalating tensions with Israel on Tuesday, comparing Ankara’s once-close middle eastern ally to a “spoiled boy” and announcing additional sanctions would soon be imposed. “We are completely suspending all of these, trade relations, military relations, related with the defense […]
Source:Asiatimes on Line The leaked United Nations report on the takeover of a Turkish ship by Israeli commandos last year in which nine people died has sent relations between Ankara and Tel Aviv from cold to icy. In the immediate future, the countries will take their own separate paths navigating […]
A Jordan-based group is threatening to file a lawsuit against Israel in the International Criminal Court over its opening of the baptismal site Qasr al-Yahud near the Jordan River. The group, which calls itself “The Arab Union to Resist the Expulsion of Arab Christians”, is headed by the speaker of […]
BBC: Settlers set fire to West Bank mosque after Israel demolishes illegal structures in Migron A mosque in a Palestinian village north of Jerusalem was attacked overnight, residents say. Two tyres were set on fire and thrown into the mosque in the village of Kasra, near the West Bank city […]
By Rami G. Khouri, The Daily Star, Beirut, Lebanon Two major Middle East-related events will take place this month with their epicenter in New York City: the commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks in the United States, and the expected Palestinian bid for the United Nations General […]
By: Uri Avnery SOURCE: (READ MORE: http://www.amin.org/articles.php?t=ENews&id=3701) Such terrifying dogs have not been seen since the Hound of the Baskervilles. They have been bred by an ardent admirer of the late “Rabbi” Meir Kahane, who was branded by the Israeli Supreme Court as a fascist. Their task is to protect […]
By AGENCIES • Gul rejects UN’s report on flotilla raid • Ankara suspends military pacts with Tel Aviv • Unapologetic Jewish state further isolated GAZA/ANKARA: The Hamas movement on Friday welcomed Turkey’s decision to expel Israel’s ambassador and its criticism of the Jewish’s state blockade of the Gaza Strip. “Hamas […]
Saturday the power of a society will be tested – a society that has finally come alive and grown up after decades of slumber. As the social protest enters its eighth week and the demonstration planned for Saturday is set to be the greatest in Israeli history, it’s time to […]
By REUTERS, ARABNEWS JERUSALEM: The cries for help from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wife brought her bodyguard running. “Security, security!” Sara Netanyahu shouted inside the couple’s official residence in Jerusalem. Lying on the floor, the Nepalese woman hired to care for the prime minister’s 96-year-old father-in-law was “slamming herself […]