March 13, 2014 15:36 by Alex Margolin Alan Dershowitz asks some hard questions about Europe’s support for BDS. Any objective person with an open mind, open eyes and an open heart must see the double standard being applied to the nation-state of the Jewish people by so many of the grandchildren of those who lethally […]
An American official said on Thursday that a Malaysia Airlines plane sent signals to a satellite for four hours after the aircraft went missing, an indication that it was still flying for hundreds of miles or more, reports The Associated Press (AP). The comments echo ones made by United States investigators on Wednesday night. These […]
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday that Iranian President Hassan Rouhani had failed to fulfill his campaign promises to allow greater freedom of expression, Reuters reported. Ban also noted the sharp rise in executions since Rouhani’s election. He made the comments in a report to the UN Human Rights Council. “The new administration […]
The Syrian army has been using starvation as a “weapon of war” in its siege of the Yarmouk camp for “Palestinian refugees” outside Damascus, Amnesty International said on Monday, according to AFP. In a report on the plight of Palestinian and Syrian civilians in Yarmouk, the group said nearly 200 people have died since an […]
The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight 370 on Saturday could be an act of terrorism. There has been one claim of responsibility: an email from an Islamic group called the Chinese Martyrs’ Brigade. But just how many acts of terrorism go unclaimed? Most of them. Credible perpetrators claimed responsibility for only 14 percent of the more than 45,000 […]
Pictures are now available to two Iranian nationals that boarded the missing Malaysian flight. A fresh report has emerged claiming that the pair were in fact Iranian nationals. A BBC Persian report quotes an Iranian friend of one of the men, who said he hosted the pair in Kuala Lumpur after they arrived from Tehran in the days […]
The Arab League on Sunday backed Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s refusal to recognize Israel as a Jewish state, Al-Arabiya reports. The head of the Arab League, Nabil Elaraby, reportedly urged Arab countries to take a “firm stand” against Israel’s demand for the PA to recognize it as a Jewish state. Speaking at the […]
The head of a Gaza-based jihadist group warned on Sunday that there are several thousand Al-Qaeda-inspired terrorists in Gaza. Speaking to The Associated Press (AP), the terror leader, Abu Bakir al-Ansari, said that these terrorists pose a formidable threat to both Israel and Gaza’s Hamas rulers. Al-Ansari described a movement that is larger and better […]
The clean-shaven young man with a winning smile had passed through Kuala Lumpur International airport security without any problems. He was wearing jeans and a T-shirt with smart brown loafers, not baggy clothes or trainers The body search was perfunctory. His small backpack contained a couple of books and lads’ magazines. The small diabetic kit […]
Flight MH370 departed Kuala Lumpur at 12:55 a.m with 227 passengers, and was scheduled to land in Beijing at 6:30 a.m., the airline said. It went missing two hours into the flight and disappeared off the radar at 065515 North (longitude) and 1033443 East (latitude). Malaysian officials investigating the disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines jetliner […]
