The White House has invited Israeli leaders to visit next week to discuss the administration’s long-awaited Middle East peace plan. … More
Category: Middle East
“Imminent” Attack is NOW Deterrence?
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Attorney General William Barr said Monday that killing Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani was part of a … More
Trump is wrong about the Islamic State
President Donald Trump has made several incorrect or misleading statements about the five-year battle against the Islamic State group as … More
Hamas
Hamas [Islamic Resistance Movement]) is a Palestinian Sunni-Islamic fundamentalist militant organization. It has a social service wing, Dawah, and a military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam … More
Fatah
Fatah, formerly the Palestinian National Liberation Movement, is a Palestinian nationalist social democratic political party and the largest faction of the confederated multi-party Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the second-largest … More
Sura
Sura was a city in the southern part of the area called by ancient Jewish sources Babylonia, located east of the Euphrates River. … More
Pumbedita – “The Mouth of the River”
Pumbedita (sometimes Pumbeditha, Pumpedita, or Pumbedisa), literally meaning in Aramaic: “The Mouth of the River,” was the name of a city from the area called … More
The Samaritan Pentateuch
The Samaritan Pentateuch, also known as the Samaritan Torah (torah shomronit), is a text of the first five books of the Hebrew … More
Why the Hatred Between the Jews and Samaritans?
I have been perplexed by the rift between the Samaritans and the Jews and their hatred mentioned in the New … More
Senate Passes Armenia Genocide Measure
The Senate passed a resolution Thursday formally recognizing the mass killings of more than 1 million Armenians in Turkey that … More
Mohammad Assaf
Mohammad Assaf (born 1 September 1989) is a Palestinian pop singer well known for being the winner of the second season of Arab Idol, … More
Rawabi (“The Hills”) – the beginning of a Palestine
Rawabi (“The Hills”) is the first planned city built for and by Palestinians in the West Bank, and is hailed as a “flagship Palestinian enterprise.” Rawabi … More
Jerusalem was renamed “Aelia Capitolina”
Aelia Capitolina was a Roman colony, built under the emperor Hadrian on the site of Jerusalem, which was in ruins following the siege of 70 … More
Tikrit
Tikrit sometimes transliterated as Takrit or Tekrit, is a city in Iraq, located 140 kilometres (87 mi) northwest of Baghdad and 220 kilometres (140 mi) southeast of Mosul on the Tigris … More
First Crusade (1095–1099)
The First Crusade (1095–1099) was the first of a number of crusades that attempted to recapture the Holy Land, called for by Pope Urban II at the Council … More
An-Nasir Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub
An-Nasir Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub (صلاح الدين يوسف بن أيوب / ALA-LC: Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn Yūsuf ibn Ayyūb; Kurdish: سەلاحەدینی ئەییووبی / ALA-LC: Selahedînê Eyûbî), … More
Adonizedek, the king of Jerusalem
Adonizedek, Adoni-Zedek, or Adoni-zedec was, according to the Book of Joshua, king of Jerusalem at the time of the Israelite invasion of Canaan. According to Cheyne and Black, the name originally … More
Russia Outs Israel in Syria-Iraq Border Strike
The Russian Foreign Ministry accused Israel Wednesday of violating Jordanian airspace when Israeli aircrafts flew over the country on Monday … More
Netanyahu Charged With Bribery and Fraud
For the first time in Israel’s history, a sitting prime minister is accused of bribery: Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit announced … More
Jerusalem’s ‘love neighbourhood’
A bureaucratic loophole has left Kafr Aqab as a district where Palestinians can keep a foot in both Jerusalem and … More
