The long-awaited plan presented by President Donald J. Trump paves the way for broader Israeli annexation of occupied territories, has no real chance of Palestinian support, and risks provoking violence.
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In Mid-East peace plan, Trump treats people as puppets
CORNELL UNIVERSITY MEDIA RELATIONS OFFICEJan. 28, 2020 In Mid-East peace plan, Trump treats people as puppets President Trump outlined a long-awaited Middle East peace plan on Tuesday, which, he says, is a “win-win opportunity” for both Israel and advocates of…
Technology Protects Respiratory Tract of Premature Infants Who Need Assisted Ventilation
A new artificial model of premature infants will make possible experiments that are expected to reduce injury to infants on respirators.
Your Brain: Individual and Unique
New findings show that individual variations in the brain’s structural connectome (map of neural connections) define a specific structural fingerprint with a direct impact on the functional organization of individual brains.
First Solar Energy System to Split Water into Hydrogen and Oxygen at Separate Sites
Researchers have developed a prototype system for efficient and safe production of hydrogen using only solar energy. The innovative system contains a tandem cell solar device that enables more efficient utilization of the light spectrum.
Pompeo announcement deeply alienates American and Israeli Jews committed to ending the occupation, says Notre Dame’s Atalia Omer
Please see comments on Pompeo’s announcement regarding Israeli settlements from Atalia Omer, associate professor of religion, conflict, and peace studies at the University of Notre Dame‘s Keough School of Global Affairs. Omer is also the author of Days of Awe: Reimagining Jewishness in Solidarity With Palestinians, about…
Falling short in election, Netanyahu proves he is not ‘above it all’
Israeli citizens went to the polls this week to vote in an election that long-serving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyau hoped would give him and his Likud party agoverning mandate. However, the election resulted in no party securing enough seats in parliament…
Israel election shows testimony to the deep political divide in the Middle East, says expert
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is fighting for his political survival with voting underway in Israel’s second election in five months, says Mehrzad Boroujerdi, an internationally recognized expert on Iran and Middle Eastern politics at Virginia Tech. The election comes…
Israel election shows testimony to the deep political divide in the Middle East, says expert
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is fighting for his political survival with voting underway in Israel’s second election in five months, says Mehrzad Boroujerdi, an internationally recognized expert on Iran and Middle Eastern politics at Virginia Tech. The election comes…
Evidence of the 587/586 BCE Babylonian Conquest of Jerusalem Found in Mount Zion Excavation
Researchers digging at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte’s ongoing archaeological excavation on Mount Zion in Jerusalem have announced a second significant discovery from the 2019 season – clear evidence of the Babylonian conquest of the city from 587/586 BCE.
Treasures From Site of John the Baptist’s Martyrdom Brought to New Light Through Mississippi State’s Cobb Institute of Archaeology
Contact: Allison Matthews STARKVILLE, Miss.—When Mississippi State’s founding director of the Cobb Institute of Archaeology first saw the ancient site of Machaerus—the place in modern-day Jordan near the Dead Sea where John the Baptist was imprisoned and beheaded by Herod…