Reuters International This content was published on December 31, 2017 Party supporters demonstrate during a Likud Central Committee meeting in Airport City, Israel December 31, 2017. REUTERS/Amir Cohen (reuters_tickers) […]
Oct 23,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Jawad Anani Some Israeli likudniks and ultra-right-wingers are asking for a conference to create a Palestinian state on the East Bank of the River Jordan (or Jordan); that calls for a revision of Jordan’s stand on the Palestinian issue as a whole. In 1967, […]
Oct 22,2017 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL While the Arab world is deep in unrest, Israel is insidiously working to implant more settlements in the West Bank, which Israel occupied in […]
ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump waits to greet Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak at the White House in Washington, U.S. September 12, 2017. (Reuters Photo) President Donald […]
Bayit Yehudi MK Bezalel Smotrich hopes to use his powers of persuasion, as in this November 2015 photo, to sell a new right-wing diplomatic plan.. (photo credit:MARC ISRAEL SELLEM) MK […]
Aug 31,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Daoud Kuttab Telling partial truth or untruths is prevalent with politicians. Although it should not be so, political leaders have a tendency to exaggerate, minimise and at times tell total lies in order to support a political point of view. But even lying politicians […]
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 […]
More than 600,000 settlers live among 2.9m Palestinians in West Bank and East Jerusalem By AFP – Jun 03,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Palestinians walk through an Israeli checkpoint between […]
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. 11, 2017 RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Israeli forces delivered confiscation notices on Friday for 275 dunams (69 acres) of private Palestinian land on the outskirts of the village of Beituniya in the western part of the occupied West Bank district of Ramallah. Official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that farmers […]
View of the Israeli settlement of Efrat in the West Bank on Feb. 7, 2017. (Ammar Awad/Reuters) By William Booth February 10, 2017 JERUSALEM —President Trump warned Israel on Friday that building more homes in Jewish settlements was not “good for peace” and said he wanted Israel to “act reasonably” […]
By AFP – Feb 09,2017 – JORDAN TIMES A picture taken on Sunday from the West Bank city of Hebron shows a general view of the nearby Israeli settlement of Givat Harsina (AFP photo) OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israeli and Palestinian rights groups petitioned the supreme court on Wednesday […]
Talk of a ‘two-state solution’ remains nothing more than a convenient fig leaf for Israeli authorities Patrick Cockburn @indyworld Tuesday 7 February 2017 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave Theresa May a frightening account during their meeting of the threat posed by Iranian aggression to Israel and everybody else. In […]
JAN. 31, 2017 (AFP/File) By: Ramzy Baroud Ramzy Baroud is an internationally-syndicated columnist, author, and the founder of PalestineChronicle.com. His latest book is My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza’s Untold Story. US President Donald Trump promises to be pro-Israel in every aspect. “I’m the best thing that could ever […]
By AFP – Jan 26,2017 – JORDAN TIMES A picture taken on Thursday shows new apartments under construction in the Israeli settlement of Har Homa (foreground-left) situated in East Jerusalem, in front of the West Bank city of Bethlehem (background-right) (AFP photo) OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israeli officials gave […]
By AFP – Jan 26,2017 – JORDAN TIMES A photo taken on Monday from Jerusalem shows the Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim in the Palestinian West Bank with the mountains at the east of the Jordan River in the background (AFP photo by Thomas Coex) RAMALLAH — A […]
AFP, REUTERS | Published — Wednesday 25 January 2017 This file photo taken on December 28, 2016 shows a partial view of the Israeli settlement of Givat Zeev near the West Bank city of Ramallah. (AFP) JERUSALEM/RAMALLAH: Israel has approved the construction of 2,500 settler homes in the occupied […]
Jan 10,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Hasan Abu Nimah Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s instant reaction to the Palestinian attack last Sunday on Israeli soldiers in Jerusalem was to attribute the attack to a Daesh terrorist, much like what had happened earlier in Nice and Berlin. While the judgment was indeed […]