A Palestinian Authority (PA) source on Friday told AFP that PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas formally rejected US proposals for Israel to keep troops in a future Palestinian state along the Jordan border. The source further formally stated Abbas’ position of refusing to recognize Israel as the Jewish state. Abbas’ rejection of US Secretary of State John Kerry’s proposals in Ramallah Thursday […]
The Free Syrian Army (FSA) has reportedly set up a new alliance of Syrian rebel brigades, hoping to revive its waning influence as Islamist factions gain momentum at its expense. The Syrian Rebel Front (SRF) is being touted as a more “moderate” alternative to the Syrian Islamic Front (SIF), which was formed last month, uniting the […]
Economics Minister Naftali Bennett released a statement on his Facebook page Friday, discussing the talks which have resumed between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA). Bennett cites history once more in his statement, and explains the extent of the US’s involvement in a possible peace deal. “Recently we’ve been hearing a new tune: an international […]
Lebanon Border Incidents Expose Poor Journalism December 16, 2013 12:08 by Simon Plosker IDF soldier, 31-year-old Shlomi Cohen, was killed on Sunday night after a Lebanese army sniper opened fire on his vehicle as it drove along the Israeli side of the Lebanese border near Rosh Hanikra. While the full details of the incident […]
Over 80 civilians in a town northwest of the Syrian capital of Damascus have been executed by Islamist rebels, sources within the Syrian military told RT. Many others were kidnapped to be used as human shields. Government forces are continuing a large-scale operation against Jabhat al-Nusra and Liwa Al-Islam fighters, who captured the town earlier […]
The nuclear deal the Obama Administration negotiated with Iran is flawed by the premature easing of sanctions in return for easily reversed Iranian pledges that do not substantially set back Iran’s nuclear weapons program, according to a panel of experts who spoke at a recent Heritage event. The deal also implicitly recognizes Iran’s claim that […]
A secret US Joint Chiefs of Staff (USJCoS) Memorandum from 1967 has been uncovered by Arutz Sheva analyst Mark Langfan. Langfan says the report proves that US Secretary of State John Kerry’s current proposed security arrangements are a “military security fraud on Israel and the Jews.” Kerry is currently in Israel, pushing his proposals for the Jordan Valley […]
Robert Levinson, the former FBI agent who went missing in Iran in 2007, was secretly conducting an unapproved investigation for the CIA, according to new reports. On Thursday it was revealed that an Associated Press report has tracked the connections between Levinson’s trip and the CIA, in direct contradiction to the US government’s public denials of him […]
December 11, 2013 14:36 by Pesach Benson Audit finds EU pays Palestinian civil servants in Gaza who haven’t worked in six years. AP writes: Some 65,000 civil servants and members of the security forces in Gaza stopped reporting to their jobs in 2007, when the Islamic militant Hamas seized the territory from Palestinian President Mahmoud […]
The head of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) on Tuesday called on Israel to renounce chemical weapons and join the convention banning them. Speaking to Reuters, OPCW head Ahmet Uzumcu, whose organization has been leading the mission to destroy Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal, also called on Egypt and North Korea to […]
