Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beytenu) on Tuesday said William Schabas’s resignation from the UN Human Rights Council’s Gaza war probe will not affect the findings of the UN Commission of Inquiry, which is investigating “war crimes” charges against Israel. Those findings are “as prejudiced as the body that established it, whose sole purpose is bashing and […]
By Alan Caruba The news of the day is former President Jimmy Carter, who placed the blame for the Paris jihadist massacre on—you guessed it—Israel. That reflects the surreal world in which anti-Semites live. Meanwhile, the Palestinians, both Fatah and Hamas, are running out of friends. For reasons that defy any logic and which have […]
by Moshe Phillips and Benyamin Korn In most parts of the world, it’s not easy to find a major issue on which 80% of the population agrees. An election victory in the United States is considered a “landslide” if the winner receives more than about 60% of the vote. (Such as Richard Nixon winning 65% […]
by Khaled Abu Toameh “I’m sad that I’m back in the Gaza Strip. I went through happy times [in Israeli detention], where I had food, calm, good work, although I did not receive a salary. Those were unforgettable days where I had delicious food that we don’t have in the Gaza Strip.” — Rabi, 16, […]
Hours after a terrorist attack in a Jerusalem synagogue killed five people on Tuesday morning, Hamas is continuing its incitement against Jews. The latest incident is an animated propaganda video, posted on the Facebook page of the Shehab News Agency, and which encourages car terrorist attacks against Israelis. In the video, “Zionists” are warned to […]
Israel Forbes ranked Hamas as the world’s second richest terror group, behind only ISIS. The original article‘s in Hebrew, but i24 News picked up on this. Hamas reportedly gets $1 billion annually from taxing goods that come in to the Gaza Strip, which it has controlled since 2007, and from charitable contributions by organizations and […]
Minister of Communications Gilad Erdan (Likud) added his voice to criticism of comments made Friday by US Secretary of State John Kerry, in which the latter implied that the lack of a “two-state solution” to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was to blame for the rise of ISIS. Speaking to Kol Yisrael radio, Erdan said Kerry had […]
A number of bronze shoes were stolen from the riverside Holocaust memorial ‘Shoes on the Danube’ in Budapest, Hungary, The Budapest Beacon reported on Tuesday. It is not known whether the incident was racially motivated or simple theft, the report said. The memorial by Gyula Pauer and Can Togay, which was erected on the left […]
The Shin Bet busted a Hamas plot to topple the Palestinian Authority. Jerusalem Post reports: The plot was orchestrated by the Hamas overseas headquarters located in Turkey, and centered on a string of mass casualty terror attacks on Israeli targets, the Shin Bet added. The end goal was to destabilize the Palestinian territories and use the instability to […]
Investigative journalist Richard Behar has written what is possibly the definitive article on the media bias we’ve witnessed during the current Gaza conflict. In just one of many examples of bias featured in his comprehensive piece in Forbes magazine, Behar reserves particular criticism for the New York Times: I agree that there’s a lot of […]
