Biden ends US role as Middle East peace broker
Apr 04,2024 – JORDAN TIMES / Michael Jansen Nothing deters US President Joe Biden from following the policy he adopted on October 7 when southern Israel was attacked by Hamas. […]
Ramadan USA 2024: 7 Iftar Sweets To Try At Home
By Smriti Dey Updated:Mar 18, 2024 Iftar season is here! There are lots of dishes and especially desserts to try this season. But making them and deciding what to make […]
Muslim leaders decline White House Ramadan invitation
Community leaders, angered by Biden’s approach to Gaza, instead demanded a meeting on policy By Cleve R. Wootson Jr. and Yasmeen Abutaleb Updated April 2, 2024 A group of six Muslim leaders will […]
Anti-Muslim complaints surged to record high in US in past year: CAIR
BY ANADOLU AGENCY WASHINGTON APR 02, 2024 Demonstrators march during an anti-Islamophobia rally in Seattle, Washington, Dec.10, 2015. (Reuters File Photo) The Council on American-Islamic Relations, the largest Muslim advocacy group […]
Ever wonder why the USA needs such a Super Embassy in Baghdad?
Coordinates: 33.299°N 44.396°E From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from US embassy baghdad) Embassy of the United States, Baghdad Chancery Building in January 2014 Wikimedia | © OpenStreetMap Location Baghdad, Iraq Coordinates 33.299°N 44.396°E Opened May 2008; 15 years ago Ambassador Alina Romanowski (since 2022) The Embassy of the United States of America in Baghdad (Arabic: سفارة الولايات المتحدة، بغداد) is […]
First recognise Palestinian humanity
Apr 02,2024 – JORDAN TIMES / James J. Zogby Guys in white shirts and ties in Washington and their counterparts in Israel are sitting around tables making plans for after […]
Biden administration weighing $18 billion in arms transfers to Israel, sources say
By Humeyra Pamuk, Patricia Zengerle and Matt Spetalnick April 2, 2024 Updated 4 hours ago WASHINGTON, April 1 (Reuters) – President Joe Biden’s administration is weighing whether to go ahead with an $18 billion […]
At last, a UN Security Council Resolution over Gaza, but what’s next?
YOSSI MEKELBERG March 30, 2024 There was something beyond infuriating about the slowness, and even more so the cynical manner, with which discussions about a UN Security Council resolution calling […]
Isolated abroad, torn apart at home, Israel must face the future it dreads: a Palestinian state
The ObserverIsrael Simon Tisdall Enabled by weak and incompetent US and UK foreign policy, Benjamin Netanyahu is using war for his political survival Sat 30 Mar 2024 The catastrophic collapse of the […]
US reportedly approves transfer to Israel of bombs and jets worth billions
US foreign policy Sources say weapons package authorized even as Washington expresses public concern over anticipated offensive in Rafah ReutersSat 30 Mar 2024 The US in recent days authorized the […]
‘Israel alone’? Ongoing weapons shipments suggest otherwise
March 29, 2024 9:41 AM CDT BY RAMZY BAROUD Inset: The cover of the latest issue of ‘The Economist’ magazine suggests Israel is being abandoned by its Western allies. Main photo: Endless shipments […]
Opinion: Why I’m resigning from the State Department
Opinion by Annelle Sheline March 27, 2024 CNN.COM Editor’s Note: Annelle Sheline, PhD, served for a year as a foreign affairs officer at the Office of Near Eastern Affairs in the […]
Complicit in genocide: Where Israel gets its weapons from
Mar 26,2024 – JORDAN TIMES / Ramzy Baroud Over 9,000 Palestinian women have been killed since the start of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip. Mothers have been the […]
Julian Assange’s temporary reprieve means Australia must now work aggressively to ensure his release
Greg Barns There is only political upside for Albanese in picking up the phone to Biden, not waiting for an appeal to wend its way through the UK courtsTue 26 […]
Netanyahu cancels diplomats’ visit to Washington in protest over UN ceasefire vote
Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu. (File/AFP) Updated 2 min 3 sec ago AP March 25, 2024 TEL AVIV: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has canceled a planned visit to Washington by […]
War on Gaza: Israel is dragging the US into a future regional war
David Hearst 21 March 2024 If Washington allows Israel to turn Gaza into a giant refugee camp that gradually forces Palestinians onto the boats, an unprecedented existential battle will unfold […]
‘Demonic infantilism’: US has become Israel
BY HAKKI ÖCAL MAR 25, 2024 – DAILY SABAH Former White House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner (R) listens at right as then-President Donald Trump speaks during a breakfast with business […]
Mismeasuring corruption lets rich countries off the hook
Mar 25,2024 – JORDAN TIMES / Yuen Yuen Ang WASHINGTON, DC — “In an increasingly performance-oriented society, metrics matter. What we measure affects what we do,” argued the 2008 report of the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance. “If we have the wrong metrics, we will strive for the wrong things.” […]
Russia and China veto US resolution stating imperative of ‘immediate and sustained ceasefire’ in Gaza
UN Photo Vassily Nebenzia, Permanent Representative of Russia to UN voting against a draft resolution during the meeting on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question. Facebook Twitter Print Email […]