Israel to annex the West Bank – Why now? And what are the likely scenarios?
Dec 17,2024 – JORDAN TIMES / Ramzy Baroud Israel is getting ready to annex the occupied Palestinian West Bank. The annexation will be a major step backward on the road […]
For Netanyahu, ‘human shields’ must endure suffering as Israel persistently pursues Hamas
Dec 07,2023 – JORDAN TIMES / Michael Jansen The Biden administration has waited too long to rein in Israel over its deadly and devastating war on Gaza. After Hamas’s sudden attack on southern Israel on October 7, President Joe Biden promptly declared that Israel has the right to defend itself […]
A political stalemate led to the bloodshed in the Middle East. Only a political settlement can truly end it
OpinionIsrael-Hamas war Omer Bartov To escape this bloody impasse, Israel must declare it seeks a settlement with a willing Palestinian leadership and take steps to end occupation Wed 29 Nov […]
Israelis must recognize Palestinian citizens as true equals
YOSSI MEKELBERG June 27, 2023 In an unusual gesture, Israeli public radio last week began one of its lunchtime news programs by reading out the names of the 103 Palestinian […]
Is militancy the last resort of the oppressed?
YOSSI MEKELBERG September 17, 2022 Short Url Ronen Bar, who heads Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security service, is regarded as a level-headed official and not one inclined to hyperbole: Therefore, […]
Want quiet in Jerusalem? Respect the status quo
DAOUD KUTTAB April 17, 2022 Short Url https://arab.news/yb9zm Despite high-level intervention by Jordan’s King Abdullah and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, the situation at Al-Aqsa is anything but peaceful. […]
Bella Hadid: Injustice in Muslim countries deserves same level of outrage as Ukraine
Bella Hadid: Injustice in Muslim countries deserves same level of outrage as Ukraine Palestinian-American model Bella Hadid RAMALLAH, Sunday, March 06, 2022 (WAFA) – Palestinian-American model Bella Hadid criticized yesterday […]
Abbas tells UN Israeli actions could lead to ‘one state’
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas remotely addresses the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly in a pre-recorded message, Friday, Sept. 24, 2021, at UN headquarters. (AP) Short Url https://arab.news/m3d5e […]
Why is Europe on a witch hunt against ‘political Islam’?
Farid Hafez 25 May 2021 Germany is following in the footsteps of France and Austria, with increasingly oppressive proposals to target Muslim communities German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks at a […]
‘An illegitimate regime’: How a top rights group shed Israeli myths to recognize apartheid
Source: + 972 In an exclusive interview, human rights lawyer Michael Sfard explains what led Yesh Din to charge Israel with the crime of apartheid in the West Bank. When […]
Israel’s Palestinian Minority has Good Reason to Fear Trump’s Plan
by Ron Forthofer / February 7th, 2020 President Trump’s fraudulent Middle East deal runs roughshod over Palestinian rights, harms long-term Israeli interests, and is only the latest example of […]
PM Imran assures equal rights for minorities
Source: The Express Tribune By Danish Hussain ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday assured country’s Christian community that incumbent government would protect “at every cost” all the rights the Constitution […]
Trump told Jordan King that Israel will have a PM named Mohammad
Trump said to tell Jordan king: Israel will have a PM named Muhammad if no deal Israel’s Channel 10 claims the US president made the remark half-jokingly after Abdullah warned […]
Israel adopts divisive Jewish nation-state law
By Reuters – Jul 19,2018 – JORDAN TIME OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israel passed a “nation-state” law on Thursday declaring that only Jews have the right of self-determination in the country, […]
Chomsky: The U.S. behaves nothing like a democracy
Salon.com: I’d like to comment on topics that I think should regularly be on the front pages but are not — and in many crucial cases are scarcely mentioned at all or are presented in ways that seem to me deceptive because they’re framed almost reflexively in terms of doctrines […]
Minorities Day: President, PM call for inter-faith tolerance
ISLAMABAD: THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE, PAKISTAN President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Sunday sent out their separate messages on the occasion of “Minorities Day”. President Zardari stressed […]
Palestinians need a one-state solution
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 […]