(Reuters) - A Israeli police raid on Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque on Wednesday has triggered a furious reaction from Palestinians across the occupied West Bank and the wider Arab and Muslim world. WHERE AND WHAT IS THE AL-AQSA MOSQUE? The Al-Aqsa lies at the heart of...
just as the East Germans were as a trauma. The surprising thing is that Norway wasn’t occupied. Stoltenberg was this way not because of any personal suffering at the hands of the Russian.
“It limits our ability to understand the historical Jesus, who wasn’t a White man and didn’t walk through the world as such. He was under Roman occupation — not unlike someone living in Gaza right now. We miss a lot of the historical Jesus’ story and teachings because they were co...
But while al-Sadr's command defused the deadly standoff between his backers and rival Shiite factionsconsidered allies, if not proxies, of neighboring Iran, the underlying rift remains. Iraqis know that if it's not mended, the violence could easily erupt again, and escalate into a wider...
A case in point: Jewish Israeli settlers forcibly occupied a section in the home of the Al-Kurd family in 2001, claiming the land was owned by Jews during the Ottoman Empire era. Instead of removing the intruders, Israeli courts awarded the home to Jewish settlers. The Al-Kurds became tena...
protestors report being kicked, pulled by their hair and choked by their scarves. According to SAIA, the violence was initiated by members of the Jewish Defense League (JDL), a far-right group with links to white-supremacist organizations and that is widely considered a ...
Thus, exposure to radiation needs to be considered particularly when thinking of long-duration missions into deep space (out of Earth’s magnetic field), as it is the case for a mission to Mars. This is because radiation-induced mutations can lead to functional changes, particularly in ...
More than 500,000 Jewish settlers live in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, which was captured by Israel from Jordan in the 1967 war. Jewish settlements there are considered illegal under international law. Elise Stefanik, who is slated to become the new US ambassador...
and Gaza as occupied territory under United Nations Security Council Resolutions, though that characterization is disputed by Israel.United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334, passed in 2016, said that Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territory have “no legal validity” and constitute a ...