Colombia has not joined the parade of Latin American nations that have recognized the Palestinian Authority as a sovereign country over the past year. President Juan Manuel Santos Calderon informed the World Jewish Congress on Wednesday that as a “matter of principle,” his government would not recognize any unilateral declaration of statehood by the PA. […]
The natives of the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa, off the coast of Africa, complained bitterly to the Italian government that their island was being inundated with refugees from Africa. Some of these refugees were fleeing the turbulence in North Africa. A large number of them were economic migrants from sub-Saharan Africa who had no […]
by Daniel Pipes March 30, 2011 That up-to-the-moment title comes from an article I wrote almost a quarter century ago, in February 1987, looking at the potential sectarian ramifications of Hafez al-Assad’s demise. Although reputedly sickly at the time, the dictator eeked out another thirteen years and managed to pass the rule on to his […]
Students from the University of California, Irvine met with a Hamas leader during a student trip to Israel. Posters of Aziz Duwaik The Institute for Jewish and Community Research said it learned recently that the university’s branch of the Olive Tree Initiative, an Israeli-Palestinian peace organization, arranged for a meeting between the Irvine students and […]
Judge Eilata Ziskin of the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court has sentenced a Jewish man convicted of attacking arabs and assaulting a police officer to two months in prison and five months probation. Another defendant in the same case was sentenced to community service. The conviction stems from an incident that occurred two years ago at the […]
Arab Knesset Member Mohammed Barakeh has justified the public burning on Tuesday of a photo of Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, saying it was a “legitimate” protest and not an act of incitement. Hate chants also were heard at the annual Land Day demonstration in the mixed Arab-Jewish city of Lod, located near Ben Gurion International […]
The Yisrael Sheli (My Israel) movement, a patriotic group which works to spread Zionism and pro-Israel propaganda, released on Tuesday a clip which reviews some of the predictions made by the Council for Peace and Security over the years. The council is made up of leftists who are vocally against the Jewish communities in Judea […]
Palestinian Authority activists have recreated the Third Intifada page that was banned by Facebook on Tuesday in response to thousands of member requests. An Israeli Cabinet minister, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and a massive Internet campaign were only some of the measures used to pressure the popular social networking site into removing the page, which […]
You would think liberals in Congress have nothing better to do with their time. Amid a war in Libya, an effort to aid earthquake and tsunami-stricken Japan, a continuing war in Afghanistan, rising gas prices and endless unemployment, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and the Democratic leadership in the U.S. Senate are refusing to accept a modest […]
by Daniel Pipes Fox News March 29, 2011 After decades of stasis, the Middle East is in uproar. With too much going on to focus on a single place, here’s a review of developments in four key countries. Libya: With most Americans not quite realizing it, their government haphazardly went to war on Mar. 19 […]
