Jul 20,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMI G. KHOURI Every few years, it seems the world of Middle East and global policy analysis passes through a phase when a basic question rears its head in the media and in conversations across the world: Is Islamism a dangerous trend of the […]
FRENCH PRESS AGENCY – AFP JERUSALEM Israeli police officers detain a Palestinian man outside the Lion’s Gate, following an appeal from clerics to pray in the streets instead of the Al Aqsa Mosque compound, in Jerusalem’s Old City, Wednesday, July 19, 2017. (AP Photo) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is debating […]
Jul 19,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Hasan Abu Nimah Last Friday, there was an attack in Jerusalem. Three Israeli Palestinian young men opened fire on Israeli forces near Bab Al Asbat, the gate in the Jerusalem Old City wall that leads to Al Haram Al Sharif. Two Israeli officers were killed, […]
June 29, 2017 By Ramzy Baroud Mohammed Abed is a 28-year-old taxi driver from the village of Qarara, near the town of Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip. He has no teeth. Lack of medical care and proper dentistry work cost him all of his teeth, which rotted and decayed […]
Jun 07,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Daoud Kuttab Fifty years is a long time. The Israeli occupation has lasted way too long. The problem is that there is no credible plan to end this occupation at present. What is needed is a national Palestinian, Arab and international strategy that can […]
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL An Israeli flag is seen in front of the illegal Jewish settlement of Maaleh Adumim in West Bank, on the outskirts of Jerusalem, in this 2009 file […]
By AFP – Jun 09,2017 – A rainbow is seen over the Israeli settler outpost of Amona in the occupied West Bank on January 31 (Reuters photo) OCCUPIED […]
Ramzy Baroud | Published — Monday 5 June 2017 There is a saying that goes: “Be careful what you wish for, it might just come true.” This has been Israel’s dilemma from the very beginning. The Zionist movement, which held its first conference 120 years ago in Basel, Switzerland, wanted […]
By AFP – May 31,2017 -JORDAN TIMES A photo taken from East Jerusalem on Wednesday shows a view of Israel’s separation barrier dividing occupied Jerusalem from the West Bank city of Abu Dis, and in the distance the Jordanian capital, Amman (AFP photo) OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Fifty years […]
His brash language is toned down, and the rictus grin of the shiny reality TV star replaced with a sort of cock-eyed mask of sympathy. But the tactics he’s using […]
Arab media’s silence following reports of Saudi Arabia and Gulf States’ plans for normalization with Israel suggests solid foundations. Its timing arises from the common interests of Arab leaders and Israel’s right wing Zvi Bar’el May 20, 2017 A view of the Middle East from the International Space Station Julian […]
By AFP – May 09,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Press members wounded by Israeli forces’ tear gas and plastic bullet attack during a demonstration to show solidarity with hunger striking Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli prisons, in Betlehem, West Bank, on April 04 (Anadolu Agency photo) OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — […]
Source: Jerusalem Post BY SETH J. FRANTZMAN APRIL 20, 2017 Deputy minister for diplomacy Michael Oren stresses that Israel sought peace before the 1967 Six Day War. IDF tanks are seen […]
By Reuters – Apr 05,2017 – JORDAN TIMES A bedouin Palestinian girl carries a goat outside her family’s dwelling in Al Khan Al Ahmar village near the West Bank city of Jericho on February 23 (Reuters photo) OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — The European Union has expressed frustration with Israel over […]
Mar 07,2017 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Monday told a parliamentary committee that the US had warned that annexing the West Bank would spark an “immediate crisis” with the US administration. The Israeli minister made his statements before leaving for the US for talks with […]
Feb 22,2017 -JORDAN TIMES – Daoud Kuttab It is not entirely clear what the purpose of the casual comment on the solution to the Israeli-Palestinian problem made by US President Donald Trump during his press conference with Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu was. When commenting about the form that any “ultimate deal” […]
By YISHAI FLEISHERFEB. 14, 2017 CreditLauren Simkin Berke HEBRON, West Bank — Last week, Israel’s Parliament passed a controversial bill that allows the government to retroactively authorize contested West Bank Jewish communities by compensating previousPalestinian land claimants. Opposition parties warn that this law could open Israel to prosecution at […]
FEB. 3, 2017 HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israeli authorities Friday reopened a road in the southern occupied West Bank district of Hebron after a two year closure. A local bulldozer was allowed by Israeli authorities to remove dirt mounds and reopen the road after two years of it being closed […]
JAN. 29, 2017 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces and settlers detained two Palestinians teens at gunpoint on Sunday near an illegal Israeli settlement east of Qalqiliya in the northern occupied West Bank,according to reports from Israeli media, which alleged that the two Palestinians approached the settlement intending to carry out an […]
12/30/2011 08:50 am ET | Updated Feb 29, 2012 Carlo StrengerProfessor of Psychology and Philosophy, Tel Aviv University It is time to have a clear-headed, hard look at reality: the two-state solution is dead. Early in this fateful year 2011, leading Palestinian intellectual and President of Al Kuds University Sari […]