Tag Archives: Jerusalem

UAE recognition of Israel: Whither the Arab and the Muslim world?

UAE-Israel friendship James Dorsey says parochial interests and rivalry between the Arabian peninsula's rulers lie behind the United Arab Emirates’ decision to recognise Israel and Saudi Arabia’s turning its back on Jammu and Kashmir. Read more [...]

Saving the Holy Land – a “dead end in the tragedy of the Palestinians”…

We are all Palestinians

Stuart Littlewood highlights the “cry of hope in the absence of all hope” of Palestinian Christians living under the jackboot of the Israeli occupiers to help campaigners and civil society keep focus on some of the essential issues in the big struggle ahead. Read more [...]

By razing Khan al-Ahmar, Israel will bulldoze illusions of peace process

Impending erasure of Khan al-Ahmar

Jonathan Cook says ineffectual European whinging at Israel’s imminent destruction of Khan al-Ahmar shows “there will be no end to the slow-motion erasure of Palestinian communities until Western governments find the nerve to impose biting sanctions on Israel”. Read more [...]

Saudi religious diplomacy targets Jerusalem

Saudi-Israeli love affair

James Dorsey analyses Saudi-UAE efforts to seize control of Israeli-occupied Jerusalem’s Islamic sites from Jordan, which include overtures to Israel and coopting Palestinian collaborators, foremost disgraced former security official Muhammad Dahlan. Read more [...]

The march to Jerusalem

Palestinian rally

Gilad Atzmon writes:
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The only Jewish ghetto in the Middle East

The only Jewish ghetto in the Middle East

Gilad Atzmon writes: 
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Jerusalem belongs to us all!

Old City of Jerusalem

Stuart Littlewood explains why Jerusalem does not belong to, and must not be allowed to be usurped by, the Israelis, and argues that it is past time for Palestinians to reframe the argument so that the justice of their cause is understood globally. Read more [...]

US-Saudi nuclear talks: A barometer for whither the Middle East?

US-Saudi nuclear transfer

James Dorsey shows how Saudi Arabia “sold” Jerusalem to Israel in return for US nuclear technology, and how Trump plans to transfer US nuclear technology to the Saudis in return for ensuring bids by US companies to build reactors in Saudi are successful. Read more [...]

Trump administration ends 2017 on a sour note

UN General Assembly voting result on Jerusalem

Stuart Littlewood views the humiliation of Trump and his arrogant, Zionist cohorts – “outlaws trying to dictate the law” – at the UN, which overwhelmingly declared their recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital null and void. Read more [...]

Trump, Jerusalem and international law

Lawrence Davidson debunks the warped “reasoning” used by Trump to justify his decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, and warns of the consequences of his disregard of international law and his inability to tell the difference between his own opinion and hard facts. Read more [...]