The Ministry of Defense said on Friday that it is looking into a report that Israeli-made internet-monitoring software was being used in Iran. Channel 10 News quoted the Defense Ministry as having said that the appropriate course of action will be decided upon based on the findings of the investigation. Earlier on Friday, Bloomberg reported […]
Hamas will focus on holding Arab Spring-style mass protests against Israel but is not renouncing the use of violence against the Jewish state, leader Khaled Mashaal told The Associated Press late Thursday. Mashaal told the news agency that popular protests have “the power of a tsunami,” pointing to the recent waves of demonstrations across the […]
by David J. Rusin • Dec 23, 2011 at 11:52 am The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) reserves some of its harshest words for Muslims who contribute to combating radicalism and terror. This was true a decade ago, when CAIR’s rhetoric endangered reform-minded Muslim Khalid Durán, and it is just as true today. Dawud Walid, […]
by Clare M. Lopez According to Islamic law, Jihad is warfare to spread the religion and is obligatory for all Muslims everywhere until such time as “there is no more Fitna [resistance to Islam] and the religion will all be for Allah alone.” (Q 8:39) Jihad against the infidel (kuffar) is of two types: offensive […]
by Judith Greblya FrontPage Magazine December 23, 2011 The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Center for Near Eastern Studies hosted a roundtable discussion last month titled, “After a Decade of the ‘War on Terror’: The Middle East, Human Rights and American Muslims.” Sponsored by the UCLA School of Law Critical Race Studies Program, the […]
Gulf Arab leaders Tuesday rallied behind Saudi King Abdullah’s call to form a “single entity” in their ongoing move to form a strategic bulwark against their increasingly aggressive rival Iran. King Abdullah said Monday the security of Saudi Arabia and its Arab neighbors was being targeted, in an apparent reference to Iran, and called on […]
by Daniel Pipes December 21, 2011 Cross-posted from National Review Online In its 30-year history, Hezbollah has gone from strength to strength, going from simple terrorist group to major political force within Lebanon. But now, with economic sanctions starting to bite in Iran and the government of Syria fighting for its life, Hezbollah has met […]
Jailed Fatah arch-terrorist Marwan Barghouti told a Jordanian newspaper on Thursday he was disappointed with the prisoner exchange between Hamas and Israel. “We welcome the exchange deal which saw the release of hundreds of strugglers who had spent many years in occupation prisons,” Barghouti told Jordan’s al Ghad newspaper. “But we were hoping that the […]
The success of Islamist parties in North Africa during the Arab Spring has inspired the Hamas terror organization to rebrand itself as ‘pragmatic.’ Hamas, which has ruled Gaza since seizing the coastal enclave in a bloody 2007 putsch, is now jockeying to reposition itself amid the shifting terrain of the Arab world. Hamas is reported […]
Hamas does not discriminate between Israeli soldiers, civilians, men, women, children or babies when it carries out terror attacks. For Hamas, they are all potential soldiers and legitimate targets. That’s why Israelis and most of the media knew exactly what Hamas meant when it boasted of killing 1365 “Zionist soldiers” over the 24 years of […]
