Lebanon’s radical leftist newspaper, Al Akhbar is the latest media outlet to grab a virtual fistful of WikiLeaks documents and start making waves – the only Arab newspaper in the region to do so. But even as the paper supports feminist causes and equal rights for homosexuals, it also is careful to back the Shi’ite […]
Thousands shouted “death to Israel” and greeted the Mavi Marmara flotilla ship Sunday as it docked in Istanbul, a day after Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told journalists that although Turkey would like to restore its formerly friendly ties with Israel, the Jewish State must first apologize for the deaths of nine terror activists who […]
A Turkish court has released a man accused of planning to murder Jewish and Christian leaders, according to Turkey’s Anatolia news agency. Suspect Ismet Recber was freed until the end of his trial. Prosecutors say Recber planned the murder of rabbis and of Patriarch Bartholomew I, the Istanbul leader of Orthodox Christians. He was arrested […]
Seattle’s King County Metro Transit officials announced on Thursday that they have decided to halt all new non-commercial ads, The Seattle Times reported. This includes a controversial ad campaign which claimed that Israel committed war crimes in Gaza. The campaign, sponsored by the Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign, would have seen twelve buses carrying an ad […]
There has been an increase in terrorism in the Jordan River Valley over the past six months, according to senior IDF officers who spoke to the military magazine B’Machaneh. Most of the new terror incidents appear to be relatively uncoordinated, they said. Many of the new attacks involved placing large stones along Highway 90. The […]
Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’ Gaza leader, admitted Thursday that his government is having trouble paying its bills. “It’s really difficult to provide” the $25 million it takes every month to fund ministries and pay employees, he said. Hamas employs 34,000 people – roughly one out of every 22 adults living in Gaza – most as members […]
Christmas in Bethlehem: the cross banished from souvenirs. For fear of Islamic fundamentalism, textile workshops in Hebron and Jerusalem, produce and sell T-shirts and other items depicting the Church of the Nativity without the cross. Discrimination and economic crisis are forcing Christians to flee from the Palestinian territories and Israel. The risk is to see […]
By Bill Warner– You can sort the written and spoken words about Islam into two categories — negative and apologist. Closer observation shows that the negative camp and the apologist camp use different logic, as well as come to different conclusions. An easy way to see this is to go to a reporting source on […]
The term “1967 borders,” the Arab world’s mantra for the borders of a PA state, never existed, says former Ambassador to Canada Alan Baker in a research paper for the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. Ever since neighboring Arab countries attacked Israel in 1948 as it became an independent country for the first time in […]
The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (IFCJ) marked the tenth anniversary of its establishment in Israel by organizing a special conference which took place in the Knesset earlier this week. Israel has benefited from the political support of tens of millions of Evangelist Christians in the United States, whose pro-Zionist views are religion-based, but whose political […]
