Israel: The Ottoman path to peace
Ynetnews: Op-ed: Any Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement will endure only if it accommodates legitimate historical claims The nation state is a relatively recent phenomenon in the Middle East – and with […]
Israel sees UN majority for Palestine status upgrade
Reuters | Aug 05, 2012 | 23:48 Updated: Aug 05, 2012 | 23:48 OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — The Palestinians’ bid to upgrade their status at the UN would find majority support there but would not bring them closer to statehood and peace with Israel, Israel’s UN envoy said on Sunday. Citing […]
Ramallah NAM meeting cancelled as Israel bars ministers
RAMALLAH — A key meeting of Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) ministers which was to have taken place in the West Bank on Sunday was cancelled after Israel denied several of them […]
FIJISUN – Violence erupts at anti-Islam rally-Sweden and Islam updates
Violence erupts at anti-Islam protest in Sweden The Associated Press Published: Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012 – 6:25 am Last Modified: Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012 – 8:56 am STOCKHOLM — Swedish activists clashed with police amid a hail of bottles and fireworks in downtown Stockholm on Saturday as they tried to break […]
Thats the spirit! Palestinians take pride in swimmer’s performance
The Daily Star, Lebanon HEBRON, Palestine: A small group of swimmers sat pinned to a television set in Hebron on Friday to watch fellow Palestinian Sabine Hazboun stroke her way through the London Olympic pool in 50m Freestyle. After their own training session in Hebron’s semi-Olympic pool, head of the […]
Romney the dunce
The Daily Star Lebanon Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is seen on board his charter plane in Tel Aviv, Israel as he travels to Poland, Monday, […]
Israel: What occupation?
According to a recently published report by an Israeli judge, Israel is not occupying the Palestinian territories. Does international law have any bearing on this report? Is the government simply preparing the legal ground to annex Area C of the West Bank? And how do these occupation-deniers explain their findings? […]
The Arab League: Inefficient at best (Editorial: The Daily Star, Lebanon)
The latest antics of the Arab League have proved once again that the body is essentially sleepwalking through its duties, jerked awake occasionally by its need to prove it is still alive, before returning to its stupor. Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem al-Thani appealed to President Bashar Assad […]
Israel seeks court OK to raze West Bank villages
AFP | Jul 24, 2012 | JORDAN TIMES OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israel is seeking a court’s backing to raze eight Palestinian villages in the West Bank, according to legal documents, in what an Israeli rights group called a potential “humanitarian disaster”. In a written response to Israel’s high court which […]
Editorial, Jordan Times: Misleading (Obama on ‘peace process’)
US President Barack Obama has recently admitted that his efforts to solve the Palestinian problem have failed. That much everybody knows already and is disappointed about, especially after the initial promises to the contrary. Yet this statement is not complete, nor accurate, since he blames the two sides to the […]
Why doesn’t the Muslim world recognize Israel?
a Bangladeshi writing in The Jerusalem Post: By MOHAMMED MOSTAFA KAMAL Hamas, Hizbullah and Iran do not accept peace, the rest of the Muslim world must boycott them. This will be justice. No Muslim country boycotted East Timor or banned its citizens from traveling there after it became independent from […]
OIC rejects new Israeli claim on Al-Aqsa
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) yesterday denounced an Israeli claim that Al-Aqsa Mosque is part of Israeli territory. OIC Secretary-General Professor Ekmeledin Ihsanoglu said: “The Islamic nation will not accept any move by Israel to encroach on Al-Aqsa, the third holiest mosque for Muslims.” He called […]
Mideast peace slips to second billing for US
AP | Jul 17, 2012 | JORDAN TIMES OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Middle East peace, America’s defining issue for decades of dealings with Israel and its Arab neighbours, was just a postscript Monday as Hillary Clinton made perhaps her final visit to the region as secretary of state. Three years after […]
FIJISUN – Political Islam, Christian protest against forced conversion
Christians in Gaza protesting ‘forced’ conversions to Islam Fox News Dozens of Christians in predominantly Muslim Gaza have staged a rare protest, claiming two members of their community were forcibly converted to Islam and are being held against their will. See all stories on this topic » Gaza Christians hold rare protest over […]
Israel may punish UN agencies for ‘illegal’ work — media
THE JORDAN TIMES OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israel is weighing measures to sanction a UN agency that works with the Palestinians over “illegal activities” including “illegal construction”, media reported on Sunday, citing local officials. Haaretz newspaper reported that Israel wants to “re-assess” the role of the UN’s Office for the Coordination […]
Switzerland: Railway cannot ban placard critical of Israel
The Swiss Federal Railways must allow a placard criticising Israel to be hung in the Zurich main railway station, according to a decision by the Swiss Federal Court in Lausanne. […]
FIJISUN – Islam updates around the globe
KRAUTHAMMER: Islamic uprising, not Facebook revolution Santa Rosa Press Democrat Post-revolutionary Libya appears to have elected a relatively moderate pro-Western government. Good news, but tentative because Libya is less a country than an oil well with a long beach and myriad tribes. Popular allegiance to a central national … See all stories on […]
Bringing Hearts Together in the Ahmedim Mosque in Kababir
As the first woman, Ada was invited to speak in the Ahmedim Mosque in Haifa. “A wonderful thing happened to me last Saturday. On June 30, I was invited to […]
‘Settlements may harm Israel’s Jewish majority’
AFP | Jul 11, 2012 | JORDAN TIMES OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israeli President Shimon Peres has warned of the demographic consequences on Israel of ongoing settlement in the occupied West Bank. “Israeli settlements in densely populated Arab areas could bring about a demographic change about which we would do well […]
Arafat’s widow to file suit in Paris over death: lawyer
AFP ARABNEWS Tuesday 10 July 2012 PARIS: Yasser Arafat’s widow is to file a lawsuit in France following allegations the Palestinian leader died at a Paris hospital in 2004 after […]