World Affairs
Politics & OpinionsBy Dabar
2 weeks ago
This was brought to my attention by David Silver. A blog report of an article appearing in the Jordanian newspaper Petra suggests the Archbishop of Canterbury (the leader of the Church of England) denied some English ecclesiastical history, The Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams said that the theology of Christian Zionism has no historical base and is a recent Protestant addition, according to Petra, the Jordanian state media agency.
Williams, who is on a four-day visit to Jordan, Israel and Palestine from Feb. 19-23, was reported by Petra as saying that the belief by some Protestants that the establishment of the Jewish state is a prerequisite for the return of Christ doesn't have a historical basis and only appeared as a result of "some biblical studies in the nineteenth century."
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Law and SocietyMiddle EastBy david 2000
5 weeks ago
At midnight on the 31 July 1988, one million Arab residents living in the West Bank who had been “Jordanians” since 1950 were no longer “Jordanians”
On 1 August 1988 those one million Arabs amazingly became subjected to a semantic conversion - to be known thereafter as “Palestinians”.
This remarkable transformation came about by an amendment to the Jordanian Nationality Law as a result of a speech given by Jordan’s King Hussein on 31 July 1988 announcing the severance of Jordan’s administrative and legal ties to the West Bank and relinquishing claims of Jordanian sovereignty in the West Bank. No laws were passed by Jordan on the details of such disengagement.
Two days before the king's disengagement speech, Jordan’s Ministry of Interior had issued disengagement instructions comprising 22 articles.
Article 2 of those instructions provided for withdrawal of Jordanian nationality from residents of the West Bank stating: |
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Law and SocietyMiddle EastBy david 2000
6 weeks ago
King Abdullah with interviewer Fareed Zakaria
Jordan’s King Abdullah is clearly feeling the pressure as the spotlight increasingly focuses on the role Jordan will have to play in resolving the allocation of sovereignty in the West Bank between Jews and Arabs.
This became very clear in the interview given by the King to Fareed Zakaria, in Davos Switzerland during the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting on 29 January.
The two-state solution - designed to create a new Arab State between Israel, Jordan and Egypt in the West Bank and Gaza - has comprehensively failed despite the most intensive diplomatic efforts to achieve such an outcome during the last 17 years
The root cause of failure has been the Arab League’s refusal to budge from its 43 years old negotiating position that demands: - the ceding by Israel of sovereignty in 100% of the West Bank and Gaza and
- Israel accepting millions of Arabs into the Jewish State
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Law and SocietyMiddle EastBy david 2000
8 weeks ago
Maj. Gen. (res.) Giora Eiland presents his study as
Prof.Efraim Inbar Director of the Begin-Sadat Center
for Strategic Studies (left) and Prof. Shmuel Sandler,
Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, look on
Jordan and Egypt need to replace the Palestinian Authority as the Arab partner to negotiate with Israel on the allocation of sovereignty in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem according to a paper entitled “Regional Alternatives To The Two State Solution” written by Israel’s former National Security Advisor - Giora Eiland
Eiland‘s paper contains two suggested alternatives to the “two-state solution”. He states that there are other creative alternatives that will present themselves once Jordan and Egypt replace the Palestinian Authority as Israel‘s negotiating partner.
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World AffairsPolitics & OpinionsBy Gentile Warrior
2 months ago
The Obama administration and Jordan laid out a new tack in Mideast peace efforts on Friday, pressing Israel and the Palestinians to take on the tough issues of borders for a Palestinian state and the status of Jerusalem before addressing other obstacles.
It's just that simple. Why didn't anyone else think of this? Holy cow! All these years of empty diplomacy and negotiations. All those dead Israelis and "palestinians". If we only knew it was this simple.
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