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 […]
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 […]
TARIQ ALHOMAYED ARABNEWS Sunday 27 May 2012 The New York Times has revealed that US — Russian talks are taking place to implement the Yemeni solution in Syria, and this is in the hopes of securing Bashar Assad’s withdrawal from power along the lines of Yemen’s Ali Abdullah Saleh. The […]
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 […]
by Laila Azzeh | May 23,2012 | JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — One of the activities of the multinational joint military exercise “Eager Lion 2012” that was scheduled to be held […]
Israel has stockpiles of WMDs. by Stephen Lendman Israel’s long known open secret is its formidable nuclear arsenal. Less is known about its chemical and biological weapons (CBW) capability. More on that below. In 1986, Dimona nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu revealed documents showing what many long suspected. Israel had been […]
Auburn: By Observer5 Today, May 15, is the day that Palestinians commemorate as “Nakba Day,” “Catastrophe Day,” a day to mark the expulsion from homes in Israel during the 1948 war. Arab people throughout the Middle East, are showing their solidarity with the Palestinians in Occupied Israel in peaceful ways […]
In the years that followed the 1967 Six Day War a prevailing conventional wisdom developed among Western policy makers – especially in Washington — that simultaneously contends that a “strong […]
Looking at the central program of the Olive Tree Initiative (OTI) at UCLA’s “Month of Ideas,” a two-night event called “Perspectives on Partition: A 1-state vs. 2-state debate,” it seems pretty clear that the only people who are invited to speak about whether to partition the land between the Jordan […]
Ynetnews: The Coliseum, where thousands upon thousands of “Judaeis” have been massacred by the Roman emperors, became for one night an arena for alliance between Christians and Jews against “odium fidei,” or religious hatred. Last Wednesday in Rome, Jewish leaders for the first time rallied alongside Christians in a candlelit […]
The Electronic Intifada: An estimated 2,000 Palestinian political prisoners are on an open-ended hunger strike that began on 17 April, Palestinian Prisoners’ Day. The strike is a direct challenge to Israel’s regime of arrest and detention to try to break the Palestinian struggle for liberation. Prisoners are specifically calling for […]
Friday prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem’s Old City are held in solidarity with the prisoners on hunger strike during the Friday prayers, sermons about the plight of the […]
The head of the United Nations agency tasked with assisting Palestinian refugees today urged the Israeli Government to find an acceptable solution to the issue of Palestinian prisoners on hunger […]
An open house at the school of Ali ibn Abi Talib in Sur Baher was held to commemorate the Nakba in support of the steadfastness of the prisoners on hunger […]
Doctors, nurses and hospital staff of the charity Almqasd organize a strike action in solidarity with the Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails. See more pictures
Al Arabiya: Dozens of Bedouin women from southern Israel join the work force after an Israeli phone company opens a service center inside a local mosque, where women feel they can work without any inhibition. The country’s largest telecom group, Bezeq Israel Telecom, in a joint venture with the Ministry […]
By JPOST EDITORIAL We mustn’t lose sight of the risk that disrespect for the law might spread to other segments of society. The Knesset Committee on the Status of Women last week turned its attention to Israel’s Beduin. The emergent picture was no less than shocking. Most Israelis wouldn’t imagine […]
AFP: AT least 1550 Palestinians in Israeli jails are now taking part in a mass hunger strike, Israel’s Prison Service said, with two of them marking their 64th day without food. IPS spokeswoman Sivan Weizman said that another 100 prisoners had begun refusing food in the last two days, swelling […]
Ynetnews: Op-ed: While Arabs shun the disabled, Israel gives hope to less fortunate members of society While Iranian scientists are being deployed in the nuclear bunkers and Israeli F16s could be ready to take off, one story reminds the world that Israel and Israelis are involved not only in hurting […]
AMMAN — Greenhouses for producing high-value crops will soon be established in Aqaba’s desert through a pilot project that is also aimed at generating clean energy and fresh water, the […]