Turkish prime minister Tayyip Recep Erdogan has engineered a fresh assault on the already crisis-laden relationship between Turkey and Israel by putting up members of his ruling AK Islamic party to reveal that Israel ran a secret signals intelligence station from Turkish military headquarters in Ankara for covert surveillance on Iran and Syria. Erdogan is […]
From VirtualJerusalem.com: Human Rights Watch rejected a Hamas claim that the Palestinians did not target Israeli civilians with rockets during the Gaza war. In a statement Thursday, the human rights group said there is strong evidence that “Hamas’ claim that rockets were intended to hit Israeli military targets and only accidentally harmed civilians is belied […]
The German engineering corporation Siemens will no longer conduct business with Iran. The major firm announced its decision at its annual shareholders meeting Tuesday. The announcement came shortly after German Chancellor Angela Merkel said at a news conference in Berlin with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that she was seriously considering tougher sanctions on the […]
Friday, Jan. 22, Damascus ordered a Level 4 mobilization of Syria’s army reserves for deployment to the Golan Heights on the Israeli border, to meet what it calls “IDF plans of attack.” DEBKAfile’s military sources interpret Level 4 as referring to Syrian armored and commando brigades. In Lebanon, too, Hizballah has placed “all its forces” […]
The BBC’s flagship documentary distorts Jewish history and rights to Jerusalem while promoting a one-sided and biased agenda. On 18 January, the BBC’s flagship documentary program, Panorama, focused on tensions in the area of eastern Jerusalem adjacent to the Old City. Any pretence at balance is thrown out of the window as reporter Jane Corbin makes […]
An Amman taxi driver was arrested on suspicion of involvement in Thursday’s bombing of an Israeli diplomatic convoy in Jordan, Al-Arabiya reported. No one was injured in the attack, in which two remote-controlled bombs were detonated close to the Allenby Bridge crossing just as a convoy of Israeli diplomats visiting Jordan passed. Four diplomats and […]
An Israeli baby girl was injured when Palestinians threw rocks at the car in which she was riding. The year-old Jewish girl was taken to Hadassah University Medical Center in Ein Kerem on Thursday after the rock crashed through the window of the car as it was driving through the southern Hebron Hills and hit […]
Israel will build a fence on its border with Egypt to prevent the infiltration of terrorists and migrant workers. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday ordered the construction of a barrier fence along its southern border at a cost of more than $270 million. Thousands of migrants have entered Israel through its Egyptian border in […]
The U.S. Army will double the amount of emergency military equipment it stockpiles in Israel. Jerusalem and Washington agreed that Israel will keep $800 million worth of U.S. equipment, according to Monday’s issue of the U.S. weekly Defense News publication, Haaretz reported. Israel would be allowed to use the equipment in a military emergency, according […]
Iran’s foreign ministry is claiming that “Zionists and American agents” planted a bomb that killed an Iranian nuclear scientist. Massoud Ali-Mohammadi, a professor at Tehran University, was killed by a bomb Tuesday morning near his home, according to Iranian reports. Tehran is claiming on a government Web site that it was the work of Americans […]
