Al Jazeera December 10 The leader of Egypt’s Coptic Church has cancelled an upcoming meeting with US Vice President Mike Pence, protesting against Washington’s move to declare Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. The move by Pope Tawadros II on Saturday came a day after Palestinian leaders also said that Pence, who is scheduled to visit the […]
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An open letter signed by 47 Malaysian NGO’s recently was addressed at Donald Trumps, pertinently on his decision in recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. The letter describes the move as is in violation of international law and numerous United Nations Security Council and General Assembly Resolutions. The Palestinian territory occupied by Israel in the 1967
Al Jazeera English Jaclynn Ashly · Dec 8, 2017 Occupied East Jerusalem – The Zahwat al-Quds kindergarten and primary school’s walls are decorated with colourful cartoons, while its students are dressed in grey-and-red striped uniforms. The children’s wide smiles and laughter echo through the hallways, belying their lingering anxiety after a recent Israeli raid
Middle East Eye Azzam Tamimi Wednesday 6 December 2017 If you asked my mother and most of her generation what difference Donald Trump’s decision to move the US embassy to Jerusalem would make, the answer would be: “None whatsoever.” Whether in Tel Aviv or in Jerusalem, the US embassy would still be sitting on Palestinian land.
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Al-Jazeera 8 December 2017 New Delhi, India – A Muslim man was hacked and burned to death in India’s western state of Rajasthan in a suspected hate crime. The half-burned body of the victim was found by the police on Thursday morning on a street in Rajsamand, over 300km away from the state capital
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Palestinian factions in the West Bank announced on Tuesday that they would carry out three days of protest across the West Bank over U.S. President Donald Trump’s expected decision regarding American policy on Jerusalem. Trump on Tuesday told Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Jordan’s King Abdullah II he intends to move the American Embassy in Israel from Tel
Citizens International is highlighting once again the dangerous and irresponsible rhetoric by the Trump’s Administration on the possibility of relocating U.S Embassy to Jerusalem. As at the 4th, of December, various news outlets including Al-Jazeera are actively reporting on this matter with anticipation that Trump could announce such decision within this week (Wednesday, 6 December).
Stop the state visit. Britain should not allow the US president’s racism to be dressed up in pageantry All relationships have boundaries. Those between nations can be particularly fraught, freighted with ties forged in history and culture. In diplomacy the manners, customs and morals of others need to be acknowledged and respected. But humanity begins
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CAIRO — The Egyptian regime has been trying to enrol judges and members of judicial authorities and committees in training sessions in strategic and national security studies at the Nasser Higher Military Academy, a judicial source that attended one of the sessions told Al-Monitor. The sessions, which started three months ago, are ongoing and will target all
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Western states have long laboured under an illusion that they have evolved beyond wars of religion. The Crusades and The Thirty Years War are bloody chapters of history, not dimensions of contemporary foreign policy. Even detractors of the United States’ imperialism and its borderless war on terror consider the wars to be about nationalism, not
