by Hana Levi Julian Al Aqsa (Hamas-Gaza) TV is continuing its unabated televised anti-Semitic incitement with an interview that claims United States founding father Benjamin Franklin warned Americans about the Jews. The claim, made in an Arabic-language interview on June 17 by United Arab Emirates Creativity Center director Dr. Ali Al-Hamadi, was translated by […]
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu The world soccer federation FIFA has banned the waving of “Free Shalit” flags at the World Cup, calling it a political act. Fearing lawsuits and political recriminations, the Johannesburg Jewish Community Center called off a planned flag-waving protest at the World Cup finale between Spain and Holland Sunday. The FIFA […]
by Hillel Fendel In an exclusive interview with Israel’s Channel Two, U.S. President Barack Obama was asked why he thinks Israelis mistrust him. “Some of it may just be the fact that my middle name is Hussein,” he told interviewer Yonit Levy, “and that creates suspicion. Some of it may have to do with the fact […]
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s son reportedly organized a humanitarian ship to sail from Greece to the Gaza Strip no later than Saturday. The Hope cargo ship will carry 2,000 tons of food and medicine and about 27 supporters who want to express solidarity with the Palestinian people, AFP, the French news agency, reported. Organizers said […]
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu Time is working against U.S. President Barack Obama, who appears to be “detached” from Israel, former U.S. Middle East negotiator Aaron David Miller wrote in Politico.com Tuesday. He maintains “there is not much of a U.S. strategy yet” for Middle East peace. President Obama and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu are to […]
by Daniel Pipes National Review Online July 6, 2010 Under Yasir Arafat, the Palestine Liberation Organization notoriously said one thing to Arab/Muslim audiences and the opposite to Israeli/Western ones, speaking venomously to the former and in dulcet tones to the latter. What about Arafat’s mild-mannered successor, Mahmoud Abbas? Did he break from this pattern of […]
by Maayana Miskin As Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu prepares to meet with United States President Barack Obama, the Judea and Samaria (Yesha) Council is taking steps to “remind” the prime minister of his commitment to end the Judea and Samaria building freeze in September. The “A Promise is a Promise” campaign has put up billboards […]
by David J. Rusin • Jun 30, 2010 at 3:02 pm Islamists’ long march through the West involves three interlocking campaigns, each of which can be advanced violently or nonviolently: provoking conflicts with authorities (governments, courts, police, etc.), intimidating the non-Muslim public, and bullying insufficiently radical Muslims. All three facets were on display in Europe […]
by Gil Ronen As the march by First Sergeant Gilad Shalit’s family and supporters neared Jerusalem, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu took a step Thursday to preempt public pressure on him and gave a clear statement of his policy on freeing terrorists. In a live news conference, Netanyahu said that Israel agreed to free 1,000 Hamas […]
by Maayana Miskin Sixty Jewish families living in the town of Pnei Hever, near Hevron, face a Sabbath without water due to Palestinian Authority water thieves. Officials at Mekorot, Israel’s national water company, say they are unable to help. Pnei Hever and other Jewish towns in the Hevron region have faced daily water theft for […]
