UN demands occupation annul Golan annexation decision…al-Jaafari stresses right to fully restore occupied Golan

Created on Wednesday, 18 November 2015 12:01 | Published Date 3 New York – The UN demanded that Israel comply with the international legitimacy’s resolutions on the occupied Syrian Golan, particularly the Security Council resolution no. 497 of 1981 that declared Israel’s decision to impose its laws and jurisdiction on the […]

Intolerance debate in India

The idea of India: Why the choice is clear in intolerance debate By Naseeruddin Shah, Dec 01, 2015 It is worth pondering whether the heat generated by Shah Rukh Khan’s or Aamir Khan’s statements was the result of genuine outrage by offended parties or a bid to grab headlines or […]

Abandoning Libya is a mistake

LINDA S. HEARD Published — Wednesday 2 December 2015 The self-assigned capital of Daesh, Raqqa, is being pounded from the air, forcing fighters to send their families across the border to Mosul for safety. For the West, the Paris attacks have been a game changer. Now that Daesh commanders have […]

How Israeli media misread the Intifada

Dec 01,2015 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMZY BAROUD Israeli commentators Yaron Friedman, of Ynet News, and Haviv Rettig Gur, of The Times of Israel, are clueless about the driving force behind the Palestinian mobilisation and collective struggle. In two recent articles, and with unmistakable conceit, they attempted to highlight what they […]

France shuts mosque; arrests man in crackdown

PARIS, FRANCE: Police shut a mosque east of Paris and arrested the owner of a revolver found in related raids on Wednesday as part of a crackdown called after the November 13 attacks on the capital, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said. He told journalists that authorities had closed another two mosques […]