November 17, 2013 14:14 by Pesach Benson Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah warned of war if Iran’s nuclear talks collapse. Ari Lieberman notes that the Party of God desperately needs the talks to succeed, and is even playing the same pipes of peace as the Obama administration. Whoda thought? A cash infusion, the byproduct of sanctions relief, […]
French President Francois Hollande has landed in Israel Sunday with an entourage for his first official visit. Hollande will be here for 3 days, where Iran is likely to be the main issue under discussion in meetings with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. AFP reports that Hollande was welcomed on the red carpet by his Israeli counterpart Shimon Peres […]
November 11, 2013 14:25 by Pesach Benson Israel and the US still not eye-to-eye on Iran. The State Department’s number 3 person, Wendy Sherman, was in Israel trying to reach an understanding with Jerusalem on the unfolding “first-step” deal with Iran. But the Times of Israel reports Sherman went home without one. Meanwhile, Benjamin Netanyahu […]
Lawyers on Monday challenged a decision to extradite Lebanese-born Canadian university professor Hassan Diab, who is accused of being involved in the deadly 1980 bombing of a Paris synagogue, calling France’s key handwriting evidence “fatally flawed.” On October 3, 1980, the eve of Simchat Torah, a bomb went off outside the Union Libérale Israélite de France synagogue in Paris. Four people were killed and more than forty injured. The […]
by Daniel Pipes History News Network August 19, 2013 The French and British empires historically had different premises, with the former (in the Roman tradition) focused more on culture and the latter more on race, hierarchy, and family. This difference took many forms: one finds meals of bifteck-frites in tiny towns in the former French […]
At least 20 cars were torched and four people arrested in a second night of rioting after French police enforced a law banning the wearing of a full face veil in public places. The violence, which began in the town of Trappes, some 50 miles north of Paris, had spread within a day to the […]
An Iranian dissident group in exile in Paris said Thursday that it had documentation proving the existence of a previously unknown underground nuclear facility in Iran. The facility is currently under construction, and will be used for nuclear research and development, the group said, although it is not clear what specific work will be done […]
Suicide of Europe. “Paris museum opens exhibit of Palestinian ‘martyrs,’” from the Jerusalem Post, June 8 (thanks to Golem): A Paris museum subsidized by the French government opened an exhibition of photos of Palestinian suicide bombers, which the museum calls freedom fighters. The exhibition of 68 photos entitled “Death” by Ahlam Shibli opened on May […]
France is in talks with the United States and Israel to buy intelligence-gathering drones, the country’s Defense Minister said on Sunday. “We need this capacity in the short term. There are currently two countries in the world that build drones, the United States and Israel,” Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told the iTele TV channel. “We […]
by Daniel Pipes The Washington Times April 24, 2013 N.B.: Text differs slightly from the Washington Times What will be the long-term impact of the Apr. 15-19 Boston Marathon attack and the ensuing action-movie-style chase, killing a total of four and wounding 265? Let’s start with what its impact will not be. It will not […]
