Arab League head warns no Mideast peace deal without Palestinian state
By Reuters – Jun 18,2019 -JORDAN TIMES CAIRO — The head of the Arab League warned on Monday that attempts to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will be in vain without […]
Jared Kushner expresses doubt that Palestinians can self-govern
White House senior adviser says he hopes Palestinians will become ‘capable of governing’ and denies Trump is racist in rare interview Guardian staff and agencies Mon 3 Jun 2019 White […]
Jordan’s king tells Trump adviser peace can only come with a Palestinian state
Arab News May 29, 2019 Jordan stands by a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict This exposed a rift with the US as the Trump administration tries to rally […]
Peace deal without Palestinian state bound to be rejected: FM Çavuşoğlu
ANADOLU AGENCY JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia 30.05.2019 Any peace deal which does not envisage the creation of an independent Palestinian state is bound to be rejected, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said […]
Trump is trying to pay his way to an annihilation of Palestinian statehood, and an erasure of Israel’s crimes
Donald Trump and Jared Kushner This was the first time in modern Arab history that America has offered the bribes before anyone has agreed to the terms Robert Fisk @indyvoices “Palestine” […]
After meeting Bedouins whose houses are being destroyed, I can’t see how a Palestinian state can ever happen
Robert Fisk, The Independent September 21, 2018 Abu Yussef Abu Dahuk is 60 years old. But of course he looks around 75 or 80, because he is a Bedouin […]
The struggle for Palestinian rights: Then and now
Aug 06,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – James J. Zogby Forty years ago this month, I left a tenured teaching position and moved to Washington, DC to run the Palestine Human […]
Trump’s master plan for peace
May 24,2018 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL President Donald Trump’s much-anticipated grand roadmap for the solution of the Palestinian conflict is now in the open with reports suggesting that the Trump’s […]
The ‘ultimate deal’ keeps popping up
Jordan Times – Hasan Abu Nimah Donald Trump began talking about his ability to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict even before he took office. He did not seem to believe that relentless failure of decades of efforts to deal with the issue, American or otherwise, were related to the complex […]
And: nothing has changed: 2011, the Year the Two-State Solution Died
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 […]
Historic Vatican accord with Palestine takes effect
Source: AFP and Yahoo News January 2, 2016 The Vatican signed the accord in June, just over two years after the Roman Catholic Church recognised the Palestinian territories as a sovereign state […]
Israel blocks hospital transfers over use of ‘State of Palestine’
By Maher Abukhater February 12, 2014, 3:15 p.m. RAMALLAH, West Bank – The presence of three words on a letterhead – “State of Palestine” – is keeping Palestinian patients from […]
Palestine decries Israel’s new outposts plan Palestinian PM says plans for more than 1,000 new houses in occupied West Bank are ‘killing two-state solution’.
An Israeli settlement push in the occupied West Bank, involving the building of 1,000 new homes in two new settlements, is “killing the two state solution”, Palestinian Prime Minister Rami […]
Obama win ‘opens way for new Mideast push’ (or: why should it?)
ARAB NEWS WASHINGTON: World leaders have hailed US President Barack Obama’s sweeping re-election, with allies pledging to deepen cooperation with the US on fighting the world economic slump and maintaining security across the globe. Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah and Crown Prince Salman congratulated Obama and wished […]