Page 34 - Arab State News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

A two-state solution remains our only viable option. 

Gaza is Netanyahu’s Gateway to Power Hamas was baited, and it fell for it I received a forward on social media, which could have been a funny meme had it not been for the tragic circumstances – two ladies arguing, with one pointing menacingly at the other and saying ‘God promised me your house, so I’m taking it and that’s that!’. Below the picture was the punch line ‘Don’t like this argument? Now you know how it feels to be Palestinian’! That in essence, is the substantive issue, as all other subtexts of religious extremism, terror, conspiracy, Ummah-Zionism etc., are subse...

Reviewing: “The Zionist Ideas” by Gil Troy. Jewish Publication Society. 2018. English. Paperback. 608 pages. ISBN-13: 978-0827612556. One of the most interesting books I ever read was “The Zionist Idea” by Arthur Hertzberg, published in 1959. It was a collection of excerpts from the writings of Jewish thinkers in the pre-Zionism stage and in the early years of the Jewish state. It began with excerpts from the precursors such as R. Zvi Hirsch Kalischer and Moses Hess. The book then moved on to Russia in the 1870s and 1880s with excerpts from Peretz Smolenskin, Eliezer Ben-Yehudah, Mose...

Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, Introduction Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics by Marc Lamont Hill and Mitchell Plitnick (the “Authors”) argues that “progressives” who hold anti-racist and anti-imperialist political outlooks and who champion gender equality, LBGTQ rights and other social justic...

The United Nations The UN Security Council has unanimously passed a resolution which calls for all foreign forces and mercenaries to leave Libya and gives the green light for a UN team to monitor last October’s historic ceasefire agreement. In a second vote announced on Friday afternoon in New York, ambassadors also passed a resolution unanimously, renewing measures relating to the illicit export of petroleum, through to 30 July, 2022. Ceasefire monitoring The UN-brokered agreement last year was signed by military representatives of the internationally recognized Libyan Government of Nation...