March 23, 2014 16:13 by Simon Plosker According to an Israeli Channel Two TV report, PA President Mahmoud Abbas issued “three no’s” in his meeting with U.S. President Obama: Specifically, the report said, Abbas rejected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s demand that he recognize Israel as a Jewish state. He also refused to abandon the Palestinian […]
A lawmaker from Hamas recently called for a “massacre” of Jews, explaining that Koran indicates that this must be done. In a televised address the lawmaker, Yunis Al-Astal, also said that Jews must be forced to pay the “jizya” tax, which under the strict Islamic Sharia doctrine, non-Muslims living under Muslim sovereignty must pay in […]
AFP reports: The European Union and UNICEF launched a project Thursday to build a desalination plant in the Gaza Strip to provide 75,000 Palestinians with drinking water. A joint statement said the project will be implemented by UNICEF thanks to a 10-million-euro ($13.7-million) EU grant. Just 5.8 percent of Gaza households have good quality water because […]
Ron Kerman, whose 17-year-old daughter, Tal, was killed in the 2003 bombing of bus line 37 in Haifa, told Arutz Sheva Thursday that he fully supported Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon’s declaration that he would resign his post if the government went ahead with yet another round of releasing terrorists. The only reason talks with […]
Officials in Australia said that they had observed debris in the Indian Ocean that could be part of the wreckage of the Malaysian airliner that disappeared 12 days ago with 239 people on board. The debris was sighted using satellite imagery in an area of the Indian Ocean, about 1,500 miles off the coast of […]
Mahmoud Abbas, the “illegal” chairman of the Palestinian Authority (PA), faces very imminent threats to his life, according to Middle East expert Prof. Rafi Yisraeli. In an exclusive interview with Arutz Sheva, Yisraeli notes the complexity of Abbas’s relations with US President Barack Obama, whom Abbas met Monday in Washington DC, and the balancing act he is playing in […]
Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon on Wednesday warned Syrian President Bashar Assad would “regret his actions” in threatening Israeli security, after the IAF conducted airstrikes on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights Tuesday night. The IDF reports the strikes hit artillery batteries and a Syrian army training camp which had aided in the setting of an […]
March 19, 2014 14:32 by Simon Plosker A two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is currently accepted by much of the international community as well as the official position of the Israeli government. Using the language of universal human rights, a one-state alternative has been promoted by those who wish to see the end of […]
A senior diplomatic source told Voice of Israel public radio Tuesday that if it turns out, in the coming days, that talks with the Palestinian Authority (PA) have reached a dead end, Israel will reconsider the release of the fourth and last batch of terrorist murderers that it is planning to free as part of […]
by Daniel Pipes Feb 22, 2014 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner The Menendez-Kirk “Nuclear Weapon Free Iran Act of 2013” (S. 1881) threatens the Iranian regime with additional sanctions and appears to be the only way to counter the Obama administration’s flaccidity vis-à-vis Tehran. I am skeptical, however, that it can do much […]
