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The Latest Breaking News from the Jordan River

‘From the river to the sea’: Why a 6-word phrase sparks fury and passion over the Israel-Hamas war

The Jordan River is a winding, 200-plus-mile run to the east of Israel and the occupied West Bank

The Independent UK · Nov 10, 2023

'From the river to the sea': Why a 6-word phrase sparks fury and passion over the Israel-Hamas war

The Jordan River is a winding, 200-plus-mile run to the east of Israel and the occupied West Bank

The Independent UK · Nov 10, 2023

How interpretations of the phrase 'from the river to the sea' made it so divisive

It's a nod to the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea and the tensions between Palestinian Arabs and Israeli Jews who live there. But what does it actually mean?

WEKU · Nov 9, 2023

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‘From the river to the sea’: What does the Palestinian slogan really mean?

Critics have called its use anti-Semitic amid Israel’s war on Gaza. But the slogan has more complex roots.

Al Jazeera · Nov 2, 2023

Israel-Palestine conflict: How sharing the waters of the Jordan River could be a pathway to peace

When the Israeli government cut off supplies of water to the Gaza Strip following Hamas’s brutal attack, it put the role of water within human conflict into particularly sharp relief.

The Conversation · Oct 23, 2023

OPINION - Rachel Johnson: Boris and I volunteered on a kibbutz — all I feel is sympathy for both Israel and Palestine

In 1984, I spent a few months in Israel with my older brother, the then future but now former prime minister of this country. Our summer started as volunteers on a kibbutz in the north, in a thumb of land poking out between Lebanon and the Golan Heights, on the…

Evening Standard · Oct 19, 2023

Jordan Following up on Arrest of MP in Israel on Suspicion of Arms, Gold Smuggling

Israel has detained a Jordanian lawmaker on suspicion of smuggling arms and gold into the West Bank and Amman is working to secure his release, the kingdom's foreign ministry said on Sunday. Imad al-Adwan, a member of parliament who had crossed a main border crossing along the Jordan River earlier…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Apr 24, 2023

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