(Communicated by the MFA Spokesperson) The Foreign Ministry of the State of Israel today expressed its shock and consternation at the news that UNESCO is establishing a Chair at the Islamic...
http://www.timesofisrael.com/haifa-is-trade-conduit-between-iraq-and-europe-mayor-says/
Concerning the passing of former Prime Minister Itzhak Shamir [http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=275812], our agency followed Yitzhak Shamir up close. Covering the 1988...
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3734/palestinians-economic-aid-bribe
NGO also lists as past or present funders: The French consulate, the Italian Institutions Union, the Swiss Development Agency and others A Palestinian NGO, the Burj Luq-Luq Social Center...
How Many Refugees? - Elliott Abrams Today the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics commemorated World Refugee Day by releasing new statistics on Palestinian refugees. Therein lies a tale. The...
It appears that Israel will be building more fences. Israel radio reported this week that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered IDF and Defense Ministry officials to start planning a new...
EU-Funded PA TV Program: Suicide Terrorists Are "Greatest Role Models" - Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik Last week, Israel transferred the bodies of 91 terrorists...
As before, Hamas's chances of taking over the West Bank are high after the failure of Abbas's ruling Fatah faction to implement significant reforms or combat rampant corruption. Israel's Defense...
Former Arafat advisor reveals that he has all necessary documents to prove existence of account with $39 million. Yasser Arafat's former financial advisor, Mohammed Rashid, revealed over the weekend...
As in other operations by the Mossad, this one – in late 2006 – also began when Unit 8200, the IDF’s Signal Intelligence unit, incidentally intercepted a phone conversation and an...
WASHINGTON - Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations Ron Prosor was elected to serve as one of the General Assembly's vice presidents. Prosor, 53, who has been serving as Israel's envoy to...
The 1967 Six Day War was the result of the renewed Arab effort to “wipe Israel off the map” – a renewal of the 1948 war that ended in a temporary cease-fire, with no interest among...
A couple of weeks ago the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee unanimously passed the Kirk Amendment as part of the State Department and Foreign Operations Appropriations Bill for 2013. The bill...
What is clear by now is that no matter how much the king does to fight corruption and implement reforms, the Muslim Brotherhood will continue to argue that it is not enough. Many Arabs feel that...
Abdel-Moneim Abolfotoh, now a leading candidates for the Egyptian presidency is a 9/11 Truther as revealed in this is Ben Birnbaum piece: Mr. Abolfotoh expressed his views on the Sept. 11, 2001,...
With the growing concern—and alarm—over the rebellion in Syria, one issue seems to have “fallen by the wayside”: the Palestinian’s application for membership in the...
The monthly U.N. Security Council Debate on “The Situation in the Middle East, Including the Palestinian Question” offered nothing unusual in the way of concrete results...nor was is...
The Israeli organization “Yesh Din” (There is Justice) recently made a presentation at the United Nations, under the auspices of the United Nations...
The Palestinian Authority has been boasting over the past four years of its success in restoring law and order to the West Bank city of Jenin. Journalists from all around the world...
Despite their limited knowledge of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, South Africans have many prejudices that are being fueled by anti-Israel groups The two of us, an Israeli and a Palestinian, went...
The Palestinians want the US to endorse all their demands and force Israel to give them everything. Palestinians are reminded almost every day that the US, which has been providing them with...
Pro-Palestinian groups and individuals in the US and Europe are doing Palestinians injustice by devoting all their energies only against Israel. There is a feeling in the West Bank and Gaza Strip...
Google Street View, launched five years ago in the United States and has since then expanded to Europe, Australia, Asia and parts of Africa, has finally made its way to the Middle East. Israel has...
Jerusalem - Thousands of high school students from across Israel participatedin a national walk on Sunday, April 22, from Yad Vashem on the “Connecting Path” to MountHerzl,...
This week's barefaced Palestinian lie that the September 4, 1999 Sharm el-Sheikh Memorandum obligated Israel to release all terrorists held for terror attacks carried out before Oslo served as a...
Mahmoud Abbas is searching for an honorable way to climb down the tree. He is hoping that the US Administration or the Quartet will provide him with the needed ladder. The major obstacle to peace is...
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian and Jordanian officials in a meeting in Amman underscored the two countries' enthusiasm for bolstering bilateral ties, specially in the field of economy. During the meeting,...
Hamas Minister: "Half of the Palestinians Are Egyptians and the Other Half Are Saudis" (MEMRI TV) Hamas Minister of the Interior and of National Security Fathi Hammad told Egypt's Al-Hekma...
The murderous attack in Toulouse, France felt a little closer to home in Ashkelon last week after I spoke with Rabbi Mohe Benisti, a local Rabbi here in Ashkelon a day later. Rabbi Benisti,...
A year ago we were told that Egypt was going to become a moderate democratic state ruled by hip Facebook kids. Now we are told that we should be grateful Egypt is going to become a moderate Islamist...
A Palestinian woman accused of defaming the president on her Facebook page has been detained for two weeks while an investigation is carried out, activists said Monday, in what they say is a growing...
This Passover marks ten years since 25 year old Abdel Basset Odeh entered the Park Hotel just off the town square near the central beach in Netanya, a city on Israel’s Mediterranean coast. On...
The Plan to Attack an Israeli Naval Vessel According to a report in Egypt, two suspects were arrested for planning attacks against Israeli naval vessels on behalf of Iran IsraelDefense 25/3/2012...
Here's an interesting example of tunnel vision. There are 600 new millionaires in Gaza, according to a recent report. To learn why, click here:...
“Interchangeable ever were the terms of abuse with which the aggressor discredits those about to be ravaged!” –Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano By Barry Rubin Reality: Those who...
During his March 4 AIPAC speech, President Barack Obama came closer than ever before to declaring that should sanctions fail, he was prepared to use military force to stop Iran from acquiring...
Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon recently challenged a long-standing Israeli policy towards UNRWA as part of his ongoing social media “hasbara” campaign intended to cast...
[Editor's note: An important article I think] Hailing the latest Egyptian-brokered truce as an “achievement,” Islamic Jihad and the Popular Resistance Committees, the two groups...
A rocket war rages in the south of Israel as more than 200 rockets have been fired at urban areas since Friday afternoon, following Israel's killing of the leader of the Popular Resistance Committee...
BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Israel has sent a delegation of 100 students to represent it in the annual Apartheid Week in South Africa, an Israeli newspaper reported Tuesday. The report in Maariv noted one...
The fact that thousands of Palestinian patients receive medical treatment in Israeli hospitals each year did not stop Palestinians from voicing opposition to a visit by Israeli physicians to...
The virtual collapse of the Oslo process with its attendant proposal for a Palestinian state alongside Israel demands a new political paradigm. In light of the abortive failure of the two-state...
We are six spicy women, who meet every Friday morning, on the bustling square in central Netanya, for coffee and Danish. Some of our members are new olim and others have been here for many...
Hamas’s no longer undisputed leader Khaled Mashaal is now in deep trouble. He’s having difficulty finding a new home after leaving Damascus, and during his travels across the Arab world,...
Who is stopping the Palestinians from turning the Gaza Strip into the Middle East's Hong Kong? Is it Israel, the Palestinians themselves or the Arab countries? In the past few weeks, Hamas Prime...
Of all the issues that drive the Arab-Israeli conflict, none is more central, malign, primal, enduring, emotional and complex than the status of those people known as Palestine refugees. The origins...
[Editor's nore: This piece was originally run at http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0%2c7340%2cL-4372560%2c00.html and is being reprinted with permission of the author] For decades the conflict...
Facing growing criticism over lack of reforms and transparency, Jordan's King Abdullah has announced an unprecedented crackdown on corruption, sending a number of his former top government officials...
Every time I see the countries of the Middle East referred to as just some arbitrary lines drawn on a map by the British I am reminded of the woman, yes, woman who was responsible for those lines....
