Arabs vandalized cars of Jews praying at the Western Wall (Kotel) Monday night, the eve of the Tisha BAv fast day. Thousands of worshippers crowded the Western Wall plaza to hear the Book of Lamentations (Eicha) following the evening prayers. When they returned to their cars, dozens of the worshippers discovered slashed tires and damage to […]
Over 150 Italian MPs from all the political parties have signed a document calling on the international community to oppose the Palestinian Authority’s bid for a unilateral declaration of a Palestinian State at the United Nations General Assembly in September. The document calls for a rapid resumption of negotiations between the Israeli and the Palestinian […]
Iranian lawmakers blamed Russia for the latest delay in activating its the Bushehr nuclear plant. “The Russians keep making bad promises,” lawmaker Asgar Jalalian told Aftab Yazd daily. “One of reasons for continued payment to the Russians is that our contract with them does not have a financial ceiling and lacks clear timing on contract […]
Nothing stops Syrian President Bashar Assad. Saudi Arabia recalls its envoy. The Arab League calls on him to stop the violence. The United Nations talks and his army shoots to kill. When it seemed things could not get worse in Syria, they did, as Assad leads a daily war on protesters. The death toll has […]
The UK has been recognized as one of the globe’s major centers of anti-Israel activity in the assault on Israel’s legitimacy. This is reflected in the amount of material that HonestReporting continues to dedicate to the UK media, which is itself a major contributor to the hostile environment that has encouraged the demonization of Israel […]
The truth from Iran: The protest movement in Israel is anti-Zionist and further proof that the Zionist regime is coming apart at the seams”. Iranian news agencies, controlled or under the influence of the regime headed by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, are informing Iranians that the social protest movement actually is a Facebook-inspired revolution that […]
by Daniel Pipes July 20, 2011 updated Aug 6, 2011 This weblog entry is dedicated to the oil rich who find creative new ways to burn through excess funds, listed in reverse chronological order. Spell your name out on sand in kilometer-high letters: A member of Abu Dhabi’s ruling family, Hamad Bin Hamdan Al Nahyan, […]
Researchers at the Center for Near East Policy Research have produced a new documentary film entitled Palestinian Refugee Policy: From Despair to Hope. The film shows just how deeply Hamas has penetrated UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency), the UN agency specializing in providing aid to PA Arabs. The film does this by using […]
The following correction has been published in The Independent relating to an article by Robert Fisk on the Arab Spring: In his Friday essay on 15 April 2011 (“The Arab Awakening – a long time coming”) Robert Fisk quoted from an order said to have been issued by the Saudi Minister of the Interior, HRH […]
While some western European countries do not understand why Israel has failed to make peace with the Palestinian Authority, those living in the Balkans “get it,” Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said last week, speaking at the beginning of a visit to Romania and Bulgaria. “They have lived under tyranny, so they are more skeptical, they […]
