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 …

US to UNHRC: 'Stop anti-Israel bias'

The United States on Monday urged the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva to stop its biased treatment of Israel.It took particular issue the council’s Agenda Item 7, under which at every session Israel’s human rights record in areas over the pre-1967 line …

Hamas official to address UN human rights body

Senior Hamas official Ismail al-Ashqar is set to speak before the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva on Monday, Ma’an News reported. Amongst the issues he will address is the issue of Hamas members who are being held in Israeli jails.Haaretz reporter Ba …

France: 4 dead in shooting at Jewish school in Toulouse

Gunman opens fire outside Ozar Hatorah school before fleeing the scene on scooter; teacher and two of his children among dead, several wounded; Jewish official: This was an anti-Semitic attack.

Fatah accuses Iran of trying to block Palestinian unity

Following Hamas visits to Iran, Fatah says the Islamic Republic is paying Hamas leaders in Gaza to block reconciliation efforts; attempts to implement unity agreement at an impasse.

Qurei calls for reconsidering one-state solution

Former PA prime minister says two-state solution lost momentum, one-state solution should be considered despite its "endless problems."

Muslim Persecution of Christians: February 2012

Half of Iraq's indigenous Christians are gone, due to the unleashed forces of jihad [holy war]. Many Christians fled to nearby Syria; yet, as the Assad regime comes under attack from al-Qaeda and others, the jihad now seeps into Syria, where Christians are experiencing a level  …

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