Palestine: Israeli eradication of history: Disappearing mosques Al-Akhbar: The discovery of a rare aerial photo of Jerusalem in the 1930s, taken by a Zeppelin, has provided the long-sought after proof that when Israel occupied the Old City in 1967 it secretly destroyed an important mosque that dated from the time […]
By David Ignatius The Daily Star LEBANON Whatever else that might be said about the Arab revolutions, it’s obvious that they pose a problem for Israel. But how bad, and what should the Israeli government do to hedge its risks? I heard some interesting – but not very encouraging – […]
July 07, 2012 12:57 AM By Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star LEBANON I have spent the last three days in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, participating in the Presbyterian Church-USA’s consideration of resolutions on Middle Eastern and peacemaking issues. Most notably, this includes a call for the church to divest its shares […]
Terrorist acts against Palestinian civilians committed by Israeli colonists clearly point to “a religious war” By As’ad Abdul Rahman, Special to Gulf NEWS Under the watchful eyes of the Israeli […]
AFP | May 31,2012 | JORDAN TIMES RAMALLAH — Israel on Thursday handed over the remains of 91 Palestinians killed during anti-Israeli attacks, some of them more than 40 years […]
By: Sultan Al-Qassemi First published on Gulfnews.com on 20th of May 2012 The post-Arab Spring political scene has exposed the frailty of the ‘marriage of convenience’ between free-thinkers and conservatives. […]
AFP | May 30,2012 | JORDAN TIMES TEL AVIV — If Israel and the Palestinians cannot reach a full peace accord, Israel should pursue an interim agreement or unspecified unilateral […]
By Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star The past year across the Arab world has revealed the variety of ways in which citizens and governments deal with the challenges they face from their own people for significant political reform, or even a change of regime. Four countries in particular – […]
Switzerland’s largest supermarket chain, Migros, has announced it will tell its customers if products have come from Jewish settlement areas in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Migros says it […]
by Rand Dalgamouni | May 29,2012 | JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Countries in West Asia and North Africa (WANA) should build peaceful ties with each other to come up with […]
BEIRUT: For the first time, the U.S. government said it considers the descendants of those who fled or were expelled from Palestine in 1948 to be refugees, Foreign Policy magazine reported Friday. The U.S. has also placed the number of Palestinian refugees – who live in the West Bank, Gaza […]
May 24, 2012 02:20 AM By David Ignatius The Daily Star, Lebanon The Middle East sometimes resembles a string of detonators wired to explode together – and this seems especially true now of Syria and its neighbors. There is political instability nearby in Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon, as the Arab […]
The Palestinian Chronicles: Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has told Israeli officials that they must partition Jerusalem if they really want peace. “No Israeli government since 1967 has done even a smidgen of what was needed in order to unify the city in practical terms. That is a tragedy […]
The New York Times I’M a Palestinian who was born in the Israeli town of Lod, and thus I am an Israeli citizen. My wife is not; she is a Palestinian from Nablus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Despite our towns being just 30 miles apart, we met almost 6,000 miles away […]
Uri Avnery ARABNEW Rabin Square in Tel Aviv has seen many demonstrations, but none quite like last Saturday’s. It has nothing to do with the event, which gave the square […]
JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah on Monday stressed that Jordan will continue its historic role in preserving and protecting the holy sites in Jerusalem, according to a […]
AFP | May 20,2012 | JORDAN TIMES DOHA — Qatar’s emir, Sheikh Hamad Ben Khalifa Al Thani, on Sunday urged Israel’s coalition government to opt for peace and not bet on Arab leaders against their people amid sweeping Arab Spring uprisings. “I call on Israel to take a positive step […]
Auburn: By Observer5 Today, May 15, is the day that Palestinians commemorate as “Nakba Day,” “Catastrophe Day,” a day to mark the expulsion from homes in Israel during the 1948 war. Arab people throughout the Middle East, are showing their solidarity with the Palestinians in Occupied Israel in peaceful ways […]
By Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star, Lebanon Yesterday marked the 64th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba of May 1948, when Israel was established and Palestinians experienced the combination of exile and occupation that still defines them today. The day was marked as usual by a variety of events around […]
Looking at the central program of the Olive Tree Initiative (OTI) at UCLA’s “Month of Ideas,” a two-night event called “Perspectives on Partition: A 1-state vs. 2-state debate,” it seems pretty clear that the only people who are invited to speak about whether to partition the land between the Jordan […]