Amman (ANTARA/Xinhua-OANA) – Jordan on Sunday condemned breaking into al-Aqsa Mosque by Israeli settlers, calling on the Arabs and Muslims to intervene to halt such violations, the state-run Petra news […]
Extremist Jewish groups tried to storm Al Aqsa Mosque on Sunday morning, through the Mughrabi Gate to the west of the Al Aqsa Mosque, Palestine Today website reported. “A group […]
No society that I am aware of has succeeded in completely eradicating prostitution, but that should not deter us in our efforts to diminish it in Israel. Haaretz; By Calev […]
By ALI BLUWI, ARABNEWS During my participation in a seminar on regional relations, one of the participants asked me about my opinion with regard to the Chinese and Russian positions toward Syria. Two points on this issue. First, if I am for change and for granting the Syrian people their […]
Source: Dawn.com By Murtaza Razvi We want our madressahs and hijabs and missionaries preaching in the UK, which readily obliges because it respects your right to practise your faith (France […]
Between 1948 and 1967 a border separated Arabs living in East Jerusalem from Jews living in the rest of the city. Today, much of the city’s Arab population remains in the east, while the majority of its Jewish population lives in the west. Although they are free to do so, few residents […]
AFP: US filmmaker Sean Stone, son of Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone, converted to Islam on Tuesday in Iran, where he is making a documentary, he told AFP. “The conversion to […]
Credit: Asiatimes: By Pepe Escobar How poignant that the first anniversary of a true Arab pro-democracy movement in the Persian Gulf – then ruthlessly crushed – falls on February 14, when Valentine’s Day is celebrated in the West. Talk about a doomed love affair. And how does Washington honor this […]
Credit: Asiatimes: By Pepe Escobar A Kalashnikov in Iraq, until recently, sold for US$100. Now it’s at least $1,000, and most probably $1,500 (those were the days when Sunnis joining the resistance in 2003 could buy a fake Kalashnikov made in Romenia for $20). Destination of choice of the $1,500 […]
Tu B’Shvat a Holiday in Transition; Once a Celebration of Israel, It’s Now ‘Green’ Jewish Holiday School children from the Efrat settlement and residents of the neighboring Palestinian village of […]
By Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star, Lebanon Well, reviewing events in Syria this week, I guess the unipolar world, the looming American century, and the end of history that were simultaneously announced by assorted American chauvinists and crackpots at the end of the Cold War around 1990 can be […]
AFP: JERUSALEM — President Shimon Peres sent a message of peace to Iranians from the podium of Israel’s parliament on Wednesday, saying there was no need for the two peoples […]
Ynetnews: By Elior Levy Failure to make progress during the latest round of talks between the Palestinians and Israel led the Palestinian leadership to examine new ways in which to […]
Secular liberals are hated as the ruling elite, even though the right has been in power for the latter half of Israel’s history. Meanwhile, as opposed to religious-nationalists and the […]
By Shahid Javed Burki The Daily Star Can Muslim governments free themselves from their countries’ powerful militaries and establish civilian control comparable to that found in liberal democracies? This question is now paramount in countries as disparate as Egypt, Pakistan and Turkey. To predict how this struggle will play out, […]
Source: Spiegel on Line: Can Egypt Make Democracy Work? By Juliane von Mittelstaedt and Volkhard Windfuhr in Cairo Scott Nelson / DER SPIEGEL One year after the revolution, Egypt may have a parliament, but it still has a long way to go before it can call itself a true democracy. The […]
Source: Spiegel International The concentration of naval power in the Strait of Hormuz is heightening the risk of a fourth Gulf war, even though the show of force may be […]
In Arab countries around the Middle East, the Christian population is decreasing. In Pakistan, Shiites and Sunni engage in bloody battles, and the Ahmadiyya are not even allowed to call themselves Muslims. The one country in which members of religious minorities enjoy respect of their rights and care for their […]
By EDITH M. LEDERER | AP ARABBEWS DAVOS, Switzerland: Former Saudi Ambassador to the United States Prince Turki Al-Faisal has warned that unless the Middle East becomes a nuclear weapon-free […]
http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/104712/sec_id/104712 Dialogue with Radical Muslims is Dangerous for American Jews by Jerry Gordon (January 2012) Introduction Jewish interfaith dialogue with Muslims has moved beyond mere episodes to one of joint services and soon, joint sanctuaries. It is an insidious form of Da’wah (call to Islam) that some Jewish communal groups […]