Amman hosts regional forum on food security issues by Areej Abuqudairi JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — In a region where food security is an enduring challenge, Jordan’s limited resources place it at especially high risk of hunger and malnutrition, experts said on Sunday. “Jordan is a resource-poor country with no oil […]
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — A renewed Palestinian bid to seek upgraded UN status may be aimed at saving the “two-state solution” but many believe the idea of an independent Palestine alongside Israel is looking increasingly unrealistic. “The two-state solution is the only sustainable option. Yet the door may be closing for […]
Source: Press TV The neo-conservative/Christian evangelical political alliance in the United States is fond of using the term “Judeo-Christian” to describe the political philosophic underpinnings of the United States. However, as churches in Israel, Palestine, Russia, and Europe, as well as mosques throughout the world come under attack by arsonists, […]
The memories remain, of course. The man who lost his family in an earlier massacre, only to watch the young men of Chatila lined up after the new killings and […]
Palestinians need a one-state solution Palestinian autonomy is an illusion. A plan B involving a struggle for equal rights would expose the reality of occupation by Israel by Ghada Karmi The Guardian, Thursday 20 September 2012 It is one year this week since the Palestinians applied for UN membership. President […]
Book Review: After Zionism Edited by Antony Loewenstein and Ahmed Moor, 2012 Saqi Books Last September, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas bid for Palestine to receive full member-state status at the United Nations, based on the pre-1967 borders. After enraged reactions from Israel and the US, the UN member states […]
A Swedish ship transporting 17 activists from several countries has left the Italian port city of Naples for the besieged Gaza Strip to break the Israeli blockade. Source: PRESS.TV Hundreds […]
Petra | Oct 06, 2012 | JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — A number of Jordanian activists headed to Gaza on Saturday, accompanying the third aid convoy “Ansar 3”, which is carrying $700,000 worth of food and medical assistance. Wael Saqqa, head of the Jordanian “Artery of Life” committee, noted that 10 […]
JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Worshipers and Israeli police clashed after Friday prayers at the Al-Aqsa compound in Jerusalem’s Old City, police said. Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told Ma’an that police […]
To Know more how you can benefit from the Muslim Times, go to our Homepage or About Us page Suggested reading by the Muslim Times: How can we build the Third Temple together? The speech in […]
The Israeli regime has planned to take over more Palestinian land for a new settlement project in the city of Qalqilya in the occupied West Bank, Press TV reports. by Nel Burden, PRESS TV The project will entail more land grabs from Palestinians, the demolition of their properties and an […]
Israeli President “Bibi” Netanyahu on Guy Fawkes. The super-terrorist plans to blow up parliament and the King; the very nation will be liquidated. Fawkes was a Catholic rather than a Muslim – though Renaissance Europe was pretty good at bestialising both – but what a cartoon! I loved the curly […]
Associated Press ARABNEWS Thursday 27 September 2012 UNITED NATIONS: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says he has opened talks on a new bid for international recognition at the UN, but didn’t […]
ARAB NEWS Wednesday 26 September 2012 NEW YORK: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said yesterday the “door may be closing, for good” on a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying […]
BY: JOSEF FEDERMAN | AP Monday 24 September 2012 JERUSALEM: Israel’s defense minister called for a unilateral pullout from much of the West Bank in published comments Monday, saying Israel must take “practical steps” if peace efforts with the Palestinians remain stalled. The comments by Defense Minister Ehud Barak appeared […]
AFP ARABNEWS Friday 21 September 2012 RAMALLAH: French investigators and Swiss experts could jointly exhume the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to judge if he was poisoned, a Palestinian source close to the probe said Friday. The source, asking not to be named, told AFP the two teams would travel […]
By DAOUD KUTTAB Thursday, 20 September 2012 For the second time in less than three months, the leader of a major U.S. party stereotypes Palestinians in racists and anti-peace terms. The revelation of Mitt Romney’s foreign policy attitude when it comes to the Palestinians sheds light on the gap between […]
Source: Huffington Post NEW YORK — President Barack Obama says the man behind an anti-Islam movie that ignited violence across the Middle East is a “shadowy character.” U.S. officials blame […]
In Hebrew and Arabic with English titles: Ma Ana Ajmal min Salaam We have nothing more beautiful than peace Hevenu Shalom Alinu (We brought peace upon us) We have connections […]
18 September 2012 A second secret video clip has emerged of remarks by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, saying the Palestinians are committed to Israel’s destruction. He tells donors the Middle East will “remain an unsolved problem… and we kick the ball down the field”. The video is from the […]