The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has made an aggressive pre-buttal against potential attacks on President Barack Obama over the AIPAC conference slated to run from March 4-6. The DNC is concerned that Obama’s policy on Israel – with whom relations are at a startling nadir – will become a major point of contention and open […]
Russia gave Israel codes for breaking Iran’s missile defense system in return for codes of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) Israel sold to Georgia, WikiLeaks claims. The information was among 5 million emails released this week by WikiLeaks, which said it worked in cooperation with the Anonymous hacker group. The leaked information focused on the U.S.-based […]
by Daniel Pipes February 25, 2012 updated Feb 26, 2012 Cross-posted from National Review Online: The Corner Some thoughts on U.S. policy toward Syria on the occasion of the just-ended “Friends of Syria” meeting in Tunisia: Since the end of the cold war, many Americans have a sense of being so strong, they don’t need […]
Syria’s ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva threw a tantrum and then stormed out of an emergency session of the U.N. Human Rights Council on Tuesday. Faysal Khabbaz Hamoui charged that sanctions imposed on the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for its brutal year-long crackdown on civilians, prevented Damascus from buying medicines and fuel. […]
A Washington-based institution is warning that an Iranian research center has more to do with the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program than was previously believed. The Associated Press reported that the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) said Wednesday it had new indications of hidden weapons work by Iran. According to the report, a cache […]
Abe Foxman, the National Director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), wrote a letter to the President of Harvard University, Dr. Drew Gilpin Faust last week, condemning the “One State Conference” scheduled to take place at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government on March 3-4. The conference, organized entirely by student groups that advocate an ideology […]
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu had fiery words for Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas Sunday evening after a day in which the Fatah and PLO leader delivered a speech that attempted to deny the ancient Jewish roots of Jerusalem. Abbas told Arab leaders in Doha that visiting “occupied Jerusalem” was the goal of every Muslim, Arab […]
Ethiopian and Somali troops took a strategic base of the Islamist al-Shabab terror militia in south-western Somalia on Thursday. About 50 vehicles, including some 20 tanks, entered Baidoa before troops spread out to secure the environs surrounding the town. After the southern port of Kismayo, the town was the most important al-Shabab base. Al-Shabab, which […]
The writer, an Italian journalist with Il Foglio, writes a weekly column for Arutz Sheva. He is the author of the book “A New Shoah”, that researched the personal stories of Israel’s terror victims, published by Encounter. For centuries, Jews have remembered the destruction of their holy Temple by crushing a glass at weddings or […]
This article is republished courtesy of HonestReporting Canada. We are proud to share this success of our Canadian affiliate with our readership. In a pointed rebuke of Canadian public broadcaster CBC Radio-Canada and its Mideast correspondent Ginette Lamarche’s recent reporting on Israel, Radio-Canada’s Ombudsman, Pierre Tourangeau, this week upheld a series of five complaints filed by HonestReporting Canada about the network’s Mideast […]
