(Jerusalem, Israel) A mob of some 50 Palestinian Muslims stoned a group of Christian tourists atop Jerusalem’s Temple Mount on Sunday morning. Three of the Israeli police officers who acted to protect the Christian group were wounded by the Muslim stone-throwers. Police arrested 11 Palestinians, several of them minors, for their role in the attack. […]
Rocket and missile fire from Gaza put the IDF on high alert on Friday evening, Channel 10 News reported. According to the report, an IDF force on patrol near the border with Gaza heard an explosion heard near the border fence. An IDF statement said the explosion was from an RPG anti-tank missile that was […]
This week’s terror attack in New Delhi focused the Irish Times‘ attention on the Israeli-Indian relationship, particularly on Israel’s position as India’s second largest supplier of arms. But despite this rapidly proliferating association – Israel’s most significant in Asia – it is shrouded in secrecy, operating in an undefined smoke-and-mirrors environment. Both sides go to […]
Iran and the core leadership of the al Qaeda terror group, under Ayman al Zawahiri, have established an “operational relationship”, the British Sky News reported on Wednesday. According to the report, there are concerns that the terror group is planning an attack, possibly targeting Europe, in revenge for the killing of former al Qaeda leader […]
by Daniel Pipes February 11, 2012 Cross-posted from National Review Online: The Corner 1. Dewy-eyed predictions of democracy within the year proved to be as sillyas they appeared to be back then. Instead, a power-hungry military leadership shows it will do whatever necessary to remain in the saddle. 2. The real action has yet to […]
Palestinian Authority prime minister Salam Fayyad said Wednesday his administration is actively defying Israel and operating in eastern Jerusalem. “The PA is continuously trying to allocate resources inside the city, which Israel occupied in 1967,” Fayyad said in his weekly radio address from Ramallah. “The Israeli government is trying to impose its policies to control […]
(CNSNews.com) – The plight of a young Saudi journalist accused of blaspheming Islam’s prophet on the Internet is prompting growing concern around the world, although the Obama administration has been silent on the case so far. Hamza Kashgari, 23, fled his native country last week after his postings on Twitter brought death threats and calls […]
In an interview on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s “The World Today” radio program, guest pundit Geneive Abdo is asked by host Eleanor Hall who is responsible for this week’s terror attacks on Israeli embassies: ELEANOR HALL: Iran’s leadership says it’s sheer lies that it’s behind the attacks and that the Israelis have planted the bombs […]
Israel raised its state of alert on Tuesday following the attacks on Israeli diplomats in India and Georgia that took place on Monday. There has been also speculation that Israelis were the intended targets of another attack in Bangkok on Tuesday, in which an Iranian man carrying explosives blew off his own legs. Yigla Palmor, […]
The Free Syrian Army (FSA) and Syrian revolution coordination committees rejected on Sunday last week’s reports that Syrian security forces captured an “armed gang” whose members possessed weapons manufactured in Israel and in the United States, the Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper reported. The newspaper quoted the Syrian Al-Baath newspaper, the ruling party’s mouthpiece in Syria, which […]
