Palestinian: PA arrested me just for blogging

Jamal Abu Rihan, a Palestinian blogger who spent 36 days in a Palestinian Authority prison in the West Bank for demanding an end to corruption, said Saturday that his interrogation focused mostly on his activities on Facebook.Abu Rihan, who was released last week, was arrested  …

Muslim Persecution of Christians: April, 2012

"The Christians were running in all directions for their lives, including the children who were crying in fear." One Muslim, "brandishing a sickle, chased many of them, hurling all kinds of insults and attempting to murder them all…. 500 Muslims had gathered and were watching i …

Family Attacked by Arabs, Narrowly Escapes Injury

Nakba Day 2012Reuters A religious family narrowly escaped injuries after its car was attacked by Arab rioters in Jerusalem this week, the religious radio station Radio Kol Chai reported on Friday.The incident occurred as the family members were making their way home from praye …

'Haniyeh: No future for Israel in Palestine

Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh told an international pro-Palestinian delegation on Friday that there is no future for Israel "on the land of Palestine," Gaza news portal Al-Resalah reported.Haniyeh was speaking at a meeting in Gaza with delegates from several countries inc …

Join in Solidarity with Malmö's Embattled Jewish Community | Simon Wiesenthal Center

"...Ever since I came here people have been shouting 'F***ing Jew' and 'Heil Hitler' at me."- Rabbi Shneur Kesselman, Malmö, Sweden May 17, 2012

Point of no return: Jewish 'nakba' starts to enter the mainstream

I hope it's not wishful thinking, but do I get the feeling that talk of the Jewish 'nakba' is beginning to enter the mainstream media? Established and influential journalists like Jeffrey Goldberg are beginning to challenge the Palestinian 'narrative' by referring to the 850,00 …

The US military option for Iran is 'ready,' American ambassador to Israel says

The United States has completed its planning for a military strike on Iran, the US Ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro said in remarks at a closed conference in Tel Aviv that were broadcast on Israel TV on Wednesday night.“It would be preferable to resolve this diplomatic …

Is the filibuster unconstitutional?

According to Best Lawyers — “the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession” — Emmet Bondurant “is the go-to lawyer when a business person just can’t afford to lose a lawsuit.” He was its 2010 Lawyer of th …

A different history of displacement and loss

On May 15, many in the Arab world and elsewhere mark the Nakba, or the “Catastrophe,” mourning the displacement of the Palestinian Arabs during the 1948 war with Israel. This year, as always, the commemoration will obscure the collapse at the same time of a differen …

Turkey suspects bird of being Israeli spy

Angry Birds -- Turkish Style Ankara investigating possibility that bee-eater was 'implanted with Mossad surveillance device'; Israeli wildlife officials say accusation ridiculous

Police arrest Tel Aviv armed rape suspect... JPost - National News

A 21-year-old Palestinian man was arrested on Monday evening on suspicion of rapping a 17-year-old girl and forcing her boyfriend to watch earlier this week. The suspect was arrested near the scene of the crime, in the vicinity of the Gan Ha-Ir parking lot of the municipality, …

Lies, damned lies and the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics

The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics came out with its annual "nakba" report where it tries to twist numbers to make Israel look as bad as possible. Just a quick glance through it shows a number of lies as well as more evidence that the PA has no real interest in peace …

PA Prisoners Promise Riots Unless They Get Demands

Arab security prisoners in Israeli jails say they will stop drinking water unless Israel capitulates to their demands Terrorists and security prisoners being held in Israeli jails will riot unless their demands are met immediately, MK Jamal Zahalka threatened Saturday night. S …

Palestinian parliamentarian slams PA over rank corruption

Corruption is now more widespread than ever with ministers receiving high salaries, cars, Palestinian Legislative Council speaker tells 'Al-Quds Al-Arabi,' scoffing at PA's talk of a financial crisis in the West Bank.

Peacemaking mythologies from Taba to Olmert

Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was interviewed last Friday by CNN’s Christiana Ammanpour and sought to give his audience the impression that he had been on the verge of a historical peace agreement with Mahmoud Abbas in 2008, and only because of the interference of ind …

Hamas Beats Protesters Demanding Freedom

Hamas security forces wearing masks and wielding batons and rifle butts forcibly "dissolved" a protest against the "suppression of freedom" in Gaza.Thursday's rally was staged by Gaza residents and supporters from Egypt decrying the Hamas administration's systemic repression of …

Ha'aretz, Lost in Translation

There’s Ha’aretz in Hebrew and then there’s Ha’aretz in English, and it’s not just language or circulation which sets them apart. (The Hebrew edition of Ha’aretz has a very low circulation in comparison to other Israeli newspapers; its influe …

Hitler's Long Shadow over Israel

Why do so many Arabs sound like Nazis when they talk about Jews? The answer lay buried for decades in the archives of the Third Reich. Then a generation of younger German scholars expanded their attention beyond the death camps of Europe to Hitler's activities in the Middle Eas …

News of Terrorism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict - (April 25 - May 1, 2012)

Rocket fire into the western Negev continues. This past week two rocket hits were identified. In Judea and Samaria there were attempts to smuggle weapons through the Beqaot and Hawara security forces checkpoints.In Israeli jails, 1,450 prisoners are on a hunger strike. An Israe …

Arab Ambush of Children's Bus in Jerusalem

A bus filled with children ages 3 to 13 was suddenly pelted with rocks and concrete cinder blocks hurled by Arab teens in Jerusalem's mixed Jewish-Arab neighborhood of Abu Tur.

Video: Mudar Zahran tells Michael Coren 'Jordan is Palestine'

Here's a Jordanian exile, who lives as a political refugee in England, telling Michael Coren the truth: Jordan is 'Palestine.' In most countries with a record of human rights violations, vulnerable minorities are the typical victims. This has not been the case in Jordan where  …

Made in Israel – The top 64 innovations developed in Israel

When Israel was founded 64 years ago, it was a barren country with no natural resources, little water, and more than half of its land mass desert. The only thing the new country had going for it was the natural creativity of its people. More than six decades later, the Israeli …

Jew Targeted in Rock Attack; Fires Back

A Palestinian Authority attack on Samaria Jews ended with a PA man’s injury on the Sabbath. The incident took place between the Jewish village of Givat Assaf and the PA town of Kfar Burqa, both in the Binyamin region.A group of Jews from Givat Assaf were walking in the hi …

Toulouse suspect holed up in house, says he'll surrender

300 French police surround residential building; French interior minister names suspect as Mohamed Merah, al-Qaida affiliated man of Algerian descent.

US commission lambastes Turkey as major violator of religious freedom

n an unprecedented move, a bipartisan US commission tracking global religious freedom has recommended that the State Department name Turkey on its annual list of “countries of particular concern.” It marks the first time a NATO ally has been designated as a nation w …

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