AFP | Published — Friday 10 June 2016 RAMALLAH: Israel said Thursday it had suspended entry permits for 83,000 Palestinians during Ramadan following a shooting in Tel Aviv that killed four people. “All permits for Ramadan, especially permits for family visits from Judea and Samaria to Israel, are frozen,” said […]
Jun 09,2016 -JORDAN TIMES – George S. Hishmeh The French-sponsored conference that was attended by senior representatives of 26 countries, including senior French and American officials, has failed to outline the next step towards reaching the two-state solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict now approaching 50 years. This disappointing outcome underlines the […]
Source: Times Of Israel BY RAPHAEL AHREN MOSCOW – Israeli minister Uri Ariel proposed removing “a few thousand Arabs” from Area C of the West Bank –– the 60% of […]
AFP | Published — Tuesday 24 May 2016 Israeli soldiers and police gather around the body of a Palestinian (front) who was allegedly shot in head by an Israeli soldier in West Bank town of Hebron, in this March 24, 2016 photo. (AFP) JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu […]
PNN/ Gaza/ Israeli Naval Forces on Sunday morning have have arrested eight fishermen off the Sudaniya shores, northeast of Gaza city. The Official News Agency, WAFA, said that according to fisherman […]
May 19,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMI G. KHOURI On this 68th anniversary of the creation of the state of Israel and the exile and refugeehood of half of the Palestinian Arab population of 1948, Israelis, Zionists and their friends should be concerned because something significant is taking place in […]
By AFP – May 15,2016 – An Israeli soldier asks a protester with a Palestinian flag to go further during confrontations following a rally to commemorate the ‘Nakbeh’ or ‘catastrophe’ in Arabic in reference to the creation of Israel in 1948 on Palestinian land on Sunday in the […]
Source: Forward By Marcy Oster JERUSALEM ( JTA ) — Some 71.5 percent of Jewish Israelis say they do not view Israel’s control of the West Bank as “occupation,” a monthly survey found. The same percentage of Arab respondents to the survey called it an occupation, according to the May Peace […]
May 12,2016 -JORDAN TIMES – George S. Hishmeh This time around, presidential candidates from both parties in the US seem to attach as much importance to foreign policy as to local. Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, the presumptive Democratic and Republican nominees respectively, have demonstrated their discredited positions on the […]
You’re just trying to summon up the moral wherewithal to die with dignity. By My Catbird Seat – May 23, 2015 “Israeli troops go on a rampage in the West Bank, kill Palestinians, demolish Palestinian homes” Posted May 20, 2014 Transcript Part 1 PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome back […]
Source: BBC Israel says the suspects tried to copy an arson attack that killed three Palestinians last year Israel’s security agency says it has arrested six West Bank settlers who […]
By Agencies – Apr 18,2016 – JORDAN TIMES In this July 23, 2015, photo, two Palestinian boys stand outside a tent (background) watching workers rebuild a house which was destroyed during the 2014 summer war between Israel and Hamas, as the long-awaited reconstruction began in Shijaiyah neighbourhood, eastern Gaza […]
PNN/ Jerusalem/ The chief of the Yisrael Beytenu right-wing party, Avigdor Liberman, has requested to visit the Israeli soldier who executed a wounded Palestinian in Hebron on Thursday. According to […]
Mar 23,2016 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL Front-runner Democratic candidate to the White House Hillary Clinton gave the world, in general, and the Arab countries, in particular, especially the Palestinian people, a hint at what her foreign policy would be if she were elected US president in November. Addressing the packed […]
By Reuters – Mar 18,2016 – JORDAN TIMES The Dome of the Rock is seen surrounded by houses in Jerusalem’s Old City (foreground) with the Mount of Olives in the background on Thursday (AFP photo) BRUSSELS — A seizure of land by Israel in the West Bank raises […]
Mar 15,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Hasan Abu Nimah US President Barack Obama seems to be considering ideas that could facilitate a deal between the Palestinians and the Israelis, not while still in office, as time is running short for that, but for the benefit of his successors. “Middle East peace […]
By Reuters – Mar 12,2016 – JORDAN TIMES A Palestinian protester takes position during confrontations with Israeli troops, near Israel’s Ofer Prison near the West Bank city of Ramallah, on Friday (Reuters photo) GAZA — A Palestinian boy and his sister were killed in Hamas-controlled Gaza on Saturday when […]
HEBRON, February 22, 2016 (WAFA) – Israeli armed forces Monday delivered a demolition notice to three Palestinian families in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron. Coordinator of the national committee against the wall and settlement activities Rateb Jabour told WAFA Israeli soldiers notified Palestinians of notices to demolish three residential structures, […]
Feb 16,2016 – JORDAN TIMES The Israeli “right’, a scary coalition of right-wing nationalists, ultranationalists and religious zealots, deserves all the bad press it has garnered since its formation last May. But none of this should come as a shock, as the right in Israel has never been anything but […]
PNN/ Gaza/ Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) on Monday morning have opened fire towards farmers east of Al-Breij camp, central Gaza, and the fishermen off Al-Sudaniyya shores. Local sources said that troops in the Al-Madrasa military camp, situated on the buffer zone east of Al-Breij, have opened gunfire on a group of […]