Feb 21,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Hasan Abu Nimah There was loud overreaction recently to the Knesset legislation sanctioning the Israeli theft of Palestinian land for building Jewish settlement. The pattern repeated itself last week, with US President Donald Trump’s remark with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu next to him at […]
FEB. 13, 2017 (File) RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — The medical condition of 15-year-old Ahmad al-Khadour has seriously deteriorated while being held in Israel’s Ofer detention center, according to a lawyer for the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs, Luay Ukka. Ukka said Sunday that Ahmad, who is from the town of Beituniya […]
FEB. 19, 2017 (File) AMMAN (Ma’an) — King Abdullah II of Jordan said on Sunday that any move to relaunch serious negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians should be in accordance with the two-state solution, which he called the only way to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Abdullah made his statement during […]
FEB. 19, 2017 (File) RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Israeli forces surrounded a primary school in the Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar in the occupied West Bank on Sunday morning to deliver demolition orders for some of its classrooms, locals in the village told Ma’an. During the raid of the school, which […]
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Source: Reuters International and Swiss Info By Luke Baker WASHINGTON (Reuters) – As he stood on the podium next to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, U.S. President Donald Trump said […]
There was laughter. Not because this was an intended joke by Donald Trump, but because his words were so flippant, so careless, so ignorant, so utterly deplorable, that laughter was the only psychological human release available to sane men and women after such tragic frivolity Robert Fisk @indyvoices Donald Trump’s […]
Source: BBC The UN chief has warned Donald Trump against abandoning the idea of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying there is “no alternative”. It comes after Mr […]
FEB. 11, 2017 RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Israeli forces delivered confiscation notices on Friday for 275 dunams (69 acres) of private Palestinian land on the outskirts of the village of Beituniya in the western part of the occupied West Bank district of Ramallah. Official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that farmers […]
FEB. 15, 2017 (File) RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — A United States official said on Tuesday that the US was not necessarily committed to the two-state solution as the sole way out of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, sparking criticism from Palestinian officials who upheld that the two-state solution remained the only alternative to […]
Source: Market Watch WASHINGTON—The White House said Tuesday that finding a solution to the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians doesn’t have to include an agreement to establish two separate states, marking […]
Reuters International FEB 15, 2017 People walk past a giant banner on a building congratulating U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, in Jerusalem, January 20, 2017. REUTERS/Ammar Awad (reuters_tickers) WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump supports the goal of peace between Israel and the Palestinians, even if it does not […]
Controversial bill which critics say targets Muslim worshippers is due to be put before members of the Knesset Bethan McKernan Beirut @mck_beth Israeli ministers have endorsed contentious draft legislation known as the “muezzin bill”, which critics say is designed to silence the Muslim call to prayer. Information released by the […]
Nikki Haley, US ambassador to United Nations, rejects choice of Salam Fayyad as Libya peace broker and declares UN ‘biased to the detriment of our allies’ Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad (L) and then Israeli defence minister Ehud Barak shake hands at a conference on security and policy in […]
DAILY SABAH WITH ANADOLU AGENCY ISTANBUL AA Photo A freelance journalist working for Anadolu Agency was shot in the foot by a rubber bullet fired by Israeli police officers. The photojournalist was covering a weekly protest against the separation barrier in the northern West Bank when he was shot. According […]
Source: The New York Times By PETER BAKER and MARK LANDLERFEB. 9, 2017 Photo An Israeli settlement in the West Bank. President Trump initially presented himself as an unstinting supporter […]
View of the Israeli settlement of Efrat in the West Bank on Feb. 7, 2017. (Ammar Awad/Reuters) By William Booth February 10, 2017 JERUSALEM —President Trump warned Israel on Friday that building more homes in Jewish settlements was not “good for peace” and said he wanted Israel to “act reasonably” […]
By AFP – Feb 09,2017 – JORDAN TIMES A picture taken on Sunday from the West Bank city of Hebron shows a general view of the nearby Israeli settlement of Givat Harsina (AFP photo) OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israeli and Palestinian rights groups petitioned the supreme court on Wednesday […]
Talk of a ‘two-state solution’ remains nothing more than a convenient fig leaf for Israeli authorities Patrick Cockburn @indyworld Tuesday 7 February 2017 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave Theresa May a frightening account during their meeting of the threat posed by Iranian aggression to Israel and everybody else. In […]
FEB. 3, 2017 HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israeli authorities Friday reopened a road in the southern occupied West Bank district of Hebron after a two year closure. A local bulldozer was allowed by Israeli authorities to remove dirt mounds and reopen the road after two years of it being closed […]