Yasser Arafat was poisoned in 2004 with polonium 210, a dangerous radioactive substance, a Swiss laboratory concluded and Al Jazeera reported this week. Arafat’s widow Suha, literally went through his clothes and underwear to find loose change to prove her husband was poisoned. Now she has called on the Palestinian Authority to exhume her husband’s […]
Hamas said on Thursday that it is concerned over the possibility that Israel would unilaterally withdraw from Judea and Samaria (Yehuda and Shomron), as it did in Gaza in 2005. Speaking to the Egyptian-based Al-Ahram newspaper, deputy Hamas leader Moussa Abu Marzouk called on Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas to abandon negotiations with Israel, and […]
Bodyguards stepped between Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman and Arab MK Talab Al-Sana, who Lieberman called a terrorist during a tour of an illegal Bedouin village in the Negev on Wednesday. During a visit to the “unrecognized” Bedouin village of Al-Zarnog near Be’er Sheva, MK Al-Sana appeared and accused the Foreign Minister of acting like the head […]
Al Qaida-Linked Group Claims Responsibility for Monday’s Terror Attack June 20, 2012 15:08 by Pesach Benson Everything you need to know about today’s coverage of Israel and the Mideast. Join the Israel Daily News Stream on Facebook. Today’s Top Stories: 1. Al-Qaida-linked group takes responsibility for Monday’s terror attack while the IDF said it killed a […]
Pro-Israel Editor Disappears In Iraq June 21, 2012 12:03 by Pesach Benson Everything you need to know about today’s coverage of Israel and the Mideast. Join the Israel Daily News Stream on Facebook. Today’s Top Stories: 1. The Iranian-born editor of Kurd-Israel disappeared in Iraqi Kurdistan. Point of No Return fears that Mouloud Afand was […]
Palestinian Girl’s Death: Hamas Owns Up June 20, 2012 15:25 by Simon Plosker When will the media learn? How many times have ubiquitous “Palestinian medical sources” turned out to be less than wholly reliable? In the latest example, the aforementioned Palestinian medical sources claimed that a two-year old Palestinian girl had been killed in an […]
Egyptian Terror Strikes Israel June 18, 2012 14:28 by Pesach Benson Everything you need to know about today’s coverage of Israel and the Mideast. Join the Israel Daily News Stream on Facebook. Today’s Top Stories: 1. Terrorists infiltrating from Egypt killed an Israeli this morning. News services were quick on the attack. Yesterday, Haaretz reported […]
Officials with the Turkish Islamist group IHH denied on Friday claims that an official investigation has been launched against IHH President Bülent Y?ld?r?m over alleged links to al-Qaeda. Turkish media outlets reported earlier that Y?ld?r?m has been accused of secretly funding the terrorist group secretly, official documentation. Two Turkish special prosecutors are conducting separate probes into the […]
Is Hamas Interfering In Egyptian Elections? June 17, 2012 15:11 by Pesach Benson Everything you need to know about the weekend coverage of Israel and the Mideast. Join the Israel Daily News Stream on Facebook. Today’s Top Stories: 1. Hamas is accused of planning terror attacks to influence the Egyptian elections. Haaretz reports that Egyptian […]
1. Israel became a nation in 1312 BCE, two thousand years before the rise of Islam. 2. Arab refugees in Israel began identifying themselves as part of a Palestinian people in 1967, two decades after the establishment of the modern State of Israel. 3. Since the Jewish conquest in 1272 BCE, the Jews have had […]
