Hamdallah becomes first Palestinian PM to visit Al Aqsa
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — New Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah visited Al Aqsa Mosque in the Old City of Jerusalem on Sunday, the official WAFA news agency reported. Al Aqsa, Islam’s […]
Palestine decries Israel’s new outposts plan Palestinian PM says plans for more than 1,000 new houses in occupied West Bank are ‘killing two-state solution’.
An Israeli settlement push in the occupied West Bank, involving the building of 1,000 new homes in two new settlements, is “killing the two state solution”, Palestinian Prime Minister Rami […]
Israel to build hundreds of W.Bank settler homes: media (who still dreams of a ‘Two-States-solution’?)
STORY SUMMARY Israel is seeking approval for hundreds of settler homes in the northern West Bank settlements of Itamar and Bruchin, Israel media reported on Thursday. The latest moves come […]
UN expert rejects calls to quit over Israel criticism
AFP | Jun 11, 2013 | JORDAN TIMES GENEVA — An embattled UN rights expert who probes Israel’s conduct towards Palestinians on Tuesday rejected calls to step down, saying his […]
Muslim world decisive on protecting Jerusalem, says Turkish FM Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said, “Jerusalem’s multicultural identity must be preserved to stop Judaicizing policies.”
World Bulletin/News Desk Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said, “Jerusalem’s multi-cultural identity must be preserved to stop Judaicizing policies.” Speaking at the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Ministerial level meeting […]
G4S Annual General Meeting Dominated by Controversy Over Israeli Prison Contracts
PNN G4S’ involvement in the detention of Palestinian children in Israeli jails dominated the company’s Annual General Meeting On Thursday 6th June, overshadowing all other business, including last year’s Olympic […]
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Israel Lives the Joseph Story – By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
How would you like to be an Israeli strategist today? Now even Turkey is in turmoil as its people push back on their increasingly autocratic leader. I mean, there goes the neighborhood. The good news for Israel is that in the near term its near neighbors are too internally consumed […]
USA 1988: Back when Senate was independent on Israel Frank Lautenberg and 29 other Sens. condemned its gov
SENATORS CRITICIZE SHAMIR’S POSITION ON MIDEAST PEACE (Interesting look at history – not all that long ago and still the same). By NEIL A. LEWIS, Special to the New York Times Published: March 06, 1988 Thirty United States Senators, including many of Israel’s staunchest supporters, have written a letter criticizing […]
Hezbollah has been lured into unknown territory in Syria as it wages costly battle for survival
by Robert Fisk, The Independent Mohammed Nour is the spokesperson for the Northern Storm Brigade, accused of kidnapping 11 Lebanese pilgrims in Syria “Hezbollah suspects Hamas has been teaching Sunni […]
On Israeli identity, Jewish democracy and oxymorons – A response to Carlo Strenger
Clinging to a dangerous oxymoron, Israel claims to be both a democracy and at the same time belong to “world Jewry.’ The consequences of this fallacy are severe. By Shlomo […]
Roads to ending Israeli apartheid envisioned in new book
Rod Such The Electronic Intifada 28 May 2013 130528-pretending-democracy.jpg Pretending Democracy: Israel, an Ethnocratic State is a collection of essays by Israeli, Palestinian and South African intellectuals dissecting the nature […]
Kerry’s four billion dollar lure (for Palestine)
OSAMA AL SHARIF ARABNEWS Wednesday 29 May 2013 US Secretary of State John Kerry $ 4 billion development plan to revitalize the Palestinian economy is as daring as it is fanciful. Since he took office last February, Kerry has made the resumption of peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians […]
Palestinians rule out concessions for economic gain
AFP | May 27, 2013 | 23:24 JORDAN TIMES RAMALLAH — The Palestinian presidency said on Monday that it would not make “political concessions in exchange for economic benefits” announced the day before by US Secretary of State John Kerry. “The Palestinian leadership will not offer political concessions in exchange […]
Chas Freeman on Israel’s self-inflicted existential crisis
Last week in Washington, The National Interest held a discussion of “Israel’s fraying image” based on Jacob Heilbrunn’s piece warning that American political culture is shifting against Israel. Heilbrunn listed a number of signs: Obama’s detachment from Israel, the farcical Chuck Hagel confirmation hearing and the SNL donkey-fellating skit that […]
Arab League chief urges UN action over Al Aqsa
by Taylor Luck | May 25, 2013 | JORDAN TIMES DEAD SEA — Arab League Secretary General Nabil El Araby called on the UN on Saturday to take urgent steps […]
Kerry meets Palestinian, Israeli officials in bid to revive talks (dream on ….)
JORDAN TIMES OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — US Secretary of State John Kerry held separate talks with Israeli and Palestinian officials on Thursday and acknowledged there was considerable scepticism that the two sides would resume peace negotiations. There were no signs of any breakthrough as Kerry visited Israel for the fourth time […]
New Palestinian City Caught in Land Spat : Backers Say Rawabi Needs Access to Some Israeli-Held Areas
By JOSHUA MITNICK WALL STREET JOURNAL RAWABI, West Bank—A project to build what would be the first modern Palestinian city here has stumbled over an issue that has become an […]
Israel bars UNESCO from entering Jerusalem
Israel on Monday barred a UN commission from visiting Jerusalem to investigate ongoing violations of religious freedom against Muslims and Christians in the Holy Land. “Israel has cancelled the delegation,” […]
Exile and the Prophetic: Joseph Massad strikes again
by Marc H. Ellis on May 17, 2013 Joseph Massad is at it again. He never seems to go away. Good for him! Massad is a Jordanian-born, Palestinian and a professor at Columbia University. He gained notoriety in a tenure battle that featured a ferocious below the belt campaign against […]
Jerusalem and Umar ibn al-Khattab
Jerusalem is a city holy to the three largest monotheistic faiths – Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. Because of its history that spans thousands of years, it goes by many names: Jerusalem, al-Quds, Yerushaláyim, Aelia, and more, all reflecting its diverse heritage. It is a city that numerous Muslim prophets called […]