By: Ken Timmerman– For the first time since the expansion of Iran’s nuclear program was exposed in 2002, the Iranian government is dropping the pretense that it is developing nuclear technology purely for peaceful purposes. Iran has developed nuclear war plans to deter U.S. and Israeli aggression and retaliate against it, a top adviser to […]
by Maayana Miskin Iranian Intelligence Minister Heider Moslehi said Sunday that his country is under cyber attack, and blamed the United States and Israel. Iranian officials initially admitted that their country had been hit by the Stuxnet computer worm, but insisted that the damage was minimal. Iran has been forced to push back the opening […]
A journalist who visited Gaza found that Hamas is confiscating humanitarian goods donated by the international community and forcing Gaza Arabs to pay for them. The journalist, Mitchell Prothero, wrote an article about attitudes towards Hamas for the UAE paper The National. Prothero spoke to a commander in the Islamic Jihad terrorist group, who complained […]
by Chana Ya’ar Jerusalem’s Arab population prefers Israeli sovereignty to the prospect of living under Palestinian Authority rule, according to a column written by popular Arab writer Khaled Abu Toameh. In a hard-hitting piece published last week in Hudson New York, he contends that any talk of dividing Jerusalem, a “very small city where Jews […]
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu U.S. President Barack Obama soon may hang the “help wanted” sign outside the door of his Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, who reportedly will step down. Emanuel once was allegedly called a “self-hating Jew” by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who denied the report. Sources said that Emanuel, whose father was an underground fighter […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has offered to extend a freeze on settlement construction in the West Bank–a key sticking point with Palestinians in peace talks–if the U.S. will free Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, who has been in custody since 1987. Israeli Army radio says Netanyahu offered to extend the moratorium for three months in […]
Jerusalem police on Sunday arrested a Jewish man who was suspected by Islamic authorities of saying a quiet prayer atop the Temple Mount, Judaism’s most holy site. Other Israelis who were in the same group as the arrested man told Israel National News that they were accompanied by several police officers and Islamic monitors as […]
Congressman Adam Schiff hosted a “Members Only” meeting of the ‘Congressional Friends of Jordan Caucus’ in the US House of Representatives this morning in the CVC Congressional Meeting Room with Jordan’s King Abdullah II. According to one attendee in the session, “the King’s message was sobering.” King Abdullah seemed significantly concerned that conflict was about […]
UNITED NATIONS— The US delegation walked out of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Thursday speech to the UN General Assembly after he said some in the world have speculated that the Americans were actually behind the Sept. 11 terror attacks, staged in an attempt to assure Israel’s survival. Ahmadinejad criticized the US wars in Iraq and […]
By Joseph Farah– Ever since I wrote a column last October called “Myths of the Middle East,” readers from around the world have asked me what is meant by the term “Palestinian.” The simple answer is that it means whatever Yasser Arafat wants it to mean. Arafat himself was born in Egypt. He later moved […]
