TEL AVIV – Less than one week before the international community is set to unlock a decade of sanctions imposed on Iran, the country’s Islamic hardliners deliberately generated a crisis with the US for pure domestic consumption with the aim of ensuring the ayatollahs’s continued grip on power.
TEL AVIV – Less than one week before the international community is set to unlock a decade of sanctions imposed on Iran, the country’s Islamic hardliners deliberately generated a crisis with the US for pure domestic consumption with the aim of ensuring the ayatollahs’s continued grip on power.
A tense kind of quiet has characterized the Israel-Egypt border for the past year. The desert area has seen the threat of the Islamic State group grow in that time, leading the IDF to realize that it could end up affecting Israel directly – specifically its southern towns. The IDF has taken this danger to heart, and has been preparing.
Iranian state-controlled news outlet Tasnim released video Wednesday afternoon that shows a U.S. sailor apologizing for purportedly infringing upon Tehran’s sovereignty.
ABU DHABI (AFP) – A majority of Arab Muslim youths see the actions of extremists such as the Islamic State group and Al-Qaeda as a perversion of Islam’s teachings, according to a new poll. The Zogby Research Services poll of 5,374 young
An Israeli aircraft attacked a group of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday who the military said planned to detonate a bomb at the border with Israel, and a Palestinian terrorist faction said one of its men was killed. Local
TEL AVIV – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement broadcast a music video on its television channel that called on Palestinians to “drown [Israelis] in a sea of blood, kill them as you wish,” Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reported. The
JAFFA, Israel – A prominent Saudi media outlet is striking back at British officials who accused the kingdom of fanning the flames of terror. The British officials relied on a German intelligence report and similar statements by German officials indicating that
JAFFA, Israel – An estimated 211 conversion requests were submitted to the Saudi government by foreign nationals in the last month alone, the Office of Religious Guidance (Dawah) in the city of Bdei’a announced on Tuesday. According to the published figures,
The director-general of Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs asserted that Iran has plans to turn Syria into a province of the Islamic Republic, Business Insider reported. During a discussion at the Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington, DC on
TEL AVIV – The Chief of Staff of Iran’s Armed Forces, Major General Hassan Firouzabadi, boasted that Tuesday’s capture and subsequent release of 10 American sailors “proved how vulnerable the U.S. is in front of powerful Iranian forces.”
The Islamic Republic of Iran has announced the release of the 10 U.S. Navy sailors captured Tuesday in the Persian Gulf. On Wednesday morning, Iran state news declared that the sailors had been taken to international waters and freed there, though
The Israeli embassy in Britain has sent a letter of complaint to a Muslim Labour MP after she claimed that no Israeli children had been killed or even injured by rock-throwing Palestinians. During a parliamentary debate on child detainees and
The Metropolitan Police have been called in to investigate a BBC Radio phone-in show that gave an anti-Semitic Londoner almost 15 minutes of airtime to air his views on the topic of Jewish world domination. As Breitbart News reported, during the
France’s chief rabbi was among Jewish leaders who rejected a call for men and boys to stop wearing skullcaps, after a string of anti-Semitic attacks in the southern city of Marseille. Zvi Ammar, the leader of Marseille’s Jewish community, earlier
The Jerusalem Post reports: Jerusalem – A senior Israeli official has voiced concern for Jordan’s future stability given encroaching Islamist-led insurgencies in the region, a departure from Israel’s customary reticence about its neighbor and security partner. Jordan, one of two Arab
The Times of Israel reports: Israel’s leaders were on hand at the Israeli Navy’s Haifa base on Tuesday to welcome the country’s fifth Dolphin-class submarine. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Reuven Rivlin, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon and Chief of General
The Jerusalem Post reports: German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen on Tuesday announced plans for the army to lease Israeli Heron TP drones from Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) rather than buy Predator B drones from US defense contractor General Atomics.
The Times of Israel reports: Eighteen months after the last Israel-Hamas war, the Islamist terror group is believed to have rebuilt much of its cross-border terror tunnel infrastructure, with almost as many terror tunnels reaching under the Gaza border into
The Jerusalem Post reports: Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallström is supporting terrorism and encouraging violence, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday in a sharply worded statement, after she once again attacked Israel in Sweden’s parliament. Wallström on Tuesday called for an
TEL AVIV – The Army of Islam, a Gaza-based Salafi organization that was involved in the kidnapping of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, is attempting to become the Islamic State’s sole representative in Gaza and the West Bank, according to militant Salafi sources in Gaza close to the organization.
JAFFA, Israel – A court in the United Arab Emirates sentenced a 14-year-old girl to three months’ imprisonment for sending a naked picture of her to a 16-year-old boy, who was himself sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for “soliciting obscenity”
Alain Ghozland, 73, a French Jewish politician from outside of Paris, was found dead in his apartment on Tuesday, with his body showing multiple lacerations that appeared to be stab wounds, according to reports. Mr. Ghozland was a municipal councillor
TEL AVIV – A Jerusalem band paid tribute to late rock star David Bowie with the release of a new song, “Timebound.” The band, The Portnoy Brothers, hail from the UK but now reside in Jerusalem. Originally planning to release
TEL AVIV – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement marked its 51st anniversary with parades in which children are seen sporting mock explosive belts and carrying dummy RPG launchers, MEMRI reported. You can see their video coverage here. In his “Fatah
TEL AVIV – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement posted a picture of the terrorist who murdered three people in Tel Aviv lying dead in a pool of blood and congratulated him on becoming a martyr, Palestinian Media Watch (PMW)
