‘Eager Lion’ activity delayed due to dusty weather
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 and Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Weapons
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 […]
Top 10 Facts You Probably Didn’t Know About the #Nakba
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 […]
Israel: Why Land Matters
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 […]
One state or two? UCLA student group to host a two-night conversation
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 […]
Will Jews, Christians finally join forces in battle against genocidal Islamic hatred?
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 […]
In photos: widespread solidarity with hunger striking Palestinian prisoners
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 […]
Christians & Muslims hold prayer in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners
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 […]
UN official urges Israel to resolve Palestinian prisoners hunger strike
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 […]
School open house to support Palestinian prisoners – Jerusalem
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 […]
Medical professionals protest in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners
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
Israeli phone center inside Arab Bedouin Mosque
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 […]
Israel’s Beduin
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 […]
1550 Palestinians in Adminstrtaive Detention on hunger strike
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 […]
Israel’s handicapped miracle
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 […]
Green project to produce food, energy from sun and seawater
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 […]
Israel joins UN list of states limiting human rights organizations
UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay lists Israel along with countries such as Belarus, Zimbabwe, Egypt, Ethiopia and Venezuela. Haaretz: A senior UN official in Geneva last week listed Israel among the countries that she says are restricting the activities of human rights groups. The statement, issued on Wednesday by […]
After the Arab spring, the sexual revolution?
Source: The Guardian Author: Martin Chulov, Eileen Byrne, and Abdel-Rahman Hussein An explosive call for a sexual revolution across the Arab world in which the author argues that Arab men “hate” Arab women has provoked a fierce debate about the subjugation of women in countries such as Egypt, Morocco and […]
Israeli official larceny
Israel’s timing was predicable. With the world’s gaze focused on the horrors in Syria and the Obama administration increasingly diverted by November’s presidential election, it chose this week to declare “legal” three fortified West Bank settlements which had been originally been erected by fanatical Zionists in contravention of their country’s […]
Israel’s top general says Iran unlikely to make bomb
(Reuters) – Israel’s military chief said he does not believe Iran will decide to build an atomic bomb and called its leaders “very rational” – comments that clashed with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s assessment. Lieutenant-General Benny Gantz’s remarks, in an interview published on Wednesday in the left-wing Haaretz newspaper, drew […]