For water-stressed Iraq, wells threaten race to the bottom
By AFP – Oct 30,2022 – JORDAN TIMES / A view of the receding water level at the Dohuk Dam, in the northern Iraqi city of Dohuk in the autonomous Kurdish region, on […]
How Israeli Arab parties validate Israeli apartheid
Nov 01,2022 – JORDAN TIMES / Ramzy Baroud Regardless of the outcome of the latest Israeli elections, Arab parties will not reap meaningful political benefits, even if they collectively achieve […]
Democracy and a regime of apartheid cannot coexist
CHRIS DOYLE October 31, 2022 Short Url More than 5.5 million Palestinians may be getting a new overlord. The electorate of their occupier, Israel, will make its choice on Tuesday. […]
Palestinian parties must abandon Israel’s democracy charade
RAMZY BAROUD October 31, 2022 Short Url Regardless of the outcome of Tuesday’s Israeli elections, the Palestinian parties will not reap meaningful political benefits, even if they collectively achieve their […]
New anti-colonial UN report gives Palestinians welcome boost in legitimacy wars
Richard Falk 27 October 2022 12:33 UTC | Last update: 3 days 23 hours ago The most fundamental violations of the basic rights of the Palestinian people are laid bare in Francesca Albanese’s report […]
Could the fifth election in less than four years break the political deadlock in Israel?
YOSSI MEKELBERG October 29, 2022 Short Url It has been a long slog of an election campaign since the collapse of the Israeli coalition government in June. By Israeli standards […]
Renewed Palestinian resistance and the battle to succeed Abbas
DAOUD KUTTAB October 30, 2022 Short Url The big recent uptick in armed resistance actions in the Occupied Territories can be explained in many ways. Factors include Israel’s ambivalence to […]
Lebanon’s political crisis deepens as Aoun vacates presidential palace
His 6 year term was marred by mass protests, economic downturn By AFP – Oct 30,2022 – JORDAN TIMES Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun waves to his supporters in front of the presidential […]
How new UK leader can benefit from stronger Mideast links
DR. BASHAYER AL-MAJED October 27, 2022 Short Url It has been a tumultuous few weeks in the UK, with three prime ministers in two months, countless ministerial resignations and the […]
Regardless of who wins Israel’s elections, Palestinians lose
Voices Ali Adam 25 Oct, 2022 Behind the different candidates and parties vying for power in the Israeli election is a uniting agenda to deny Palestinians their freedom and entrench […]
Teenager killed by Israeli forces ‘felt rage’ over Nablus and Jenin: family
MENA Qassam Muaddi West Bank 26 October, 2022 “May God have mercy on his soul; he only dreamed of a free Palestine,” his mother said to the press during the […]
Syrians braced for their worst winter since the war began, UN says
Syrian refugee women carry children as they walk at an informal camp, in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon October 18, 2022. (Reuters) Short Url Updated 13 sec ago EPHREM KOSSAIFY October […]
Yusuf Islam fascinates audience in Ankara concert
BY DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL OCT 24, 2022 – 11:06 PM GMT+3 Fauzia Mubarak Ali (Yusuf Islam’s wife,) Yusuf Islam, President Erdoğan and his wife First Lady Emine Erdoğan in Ankara, Türkiye, […]
Australia sounds death knell for US ‘Deal of the Century’
RAMZY BAROUD October 25, 2022 Short Url US President Donald Trump’s so-called “Deal of the Century” was meant to represent a finality of sorts, an event reminiscent of Francis Fukuyama’s […]
Potential risk of reemergence of Daesh in South of Syria
Oct 23,2022 – JORDAN TIMES / Amer Al Sabaileh Terrorist activities have recently been increasing in the south of Syria, particularly in the province of Daraa, with the strong presence […]
No government has the right to pass such laws
Oct 24,2022 – JORDAN TIMES / James J. Zogby During the past month, Israel has held 800 Palestinians under administrative detention orders, expelled several Palestinians from occupied East Jerusalem, seized […]
Israeli court clears way for Lebanon maritime border deal
By AFP – Oct 23,2022 – JORDAN TIMES An October 3 view of the coastal road of Naqoura, the southernmost Lebanese town by the border, with an Israeli position in the background […]
OPEC+decision and the Kingdom Saudi Arabia
Oct 22,2022 – JORDAN TIMES / Dr. Hazim El Naser Kingdom of Saudi Arabia does not deserve the attack it has been subjected to because of the OPEC+decision claims regarding […]
Excavations from Tell Zira’a indicate presence of elite class — scholar
By Saeb Rawashdeh – Oct 20,2022 – JORDAN TIMES 8 1 googleplus0 Photo courtesy of GPIA AMMAN — A number of objects have been excavated from Tell Zira’a (located around five kilometres southwest of […]
Israel adopted British Mandatory forces’ repressive measures to contain, tame Palestinians
Oct 19,2022 – JORDAN TIMES / Michael Jansen Palestinian businessman Munib Al Masri has drawn up a 300-page dossier of Britain’s abuses of Palestinians during the post-World War II mandate, […]