As Israelis vote Tuesday, one critical factor may be the youth vote, newly-energized by a contested race (and by millions of dollars in foreign donations, including from U.S. taxpayers, to left-wing get-out-the-vote efforts). One critical factor in the expected strong performance by the Zionist Union opposition to incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party is that young Israelis voting for the first time will have had no real memory of the Oslo peace process–and its failure.
by Joel B. Pollak17 Mar 2015, 5:42 AM PST0
We’ve known for years that most Americans support the National Security Agency’s mass surveillance apparatus. Poll after poll shows that about roughly 53 percent of Americans think the government should prioritize investigating terrorism over privacy.
by Ferenstein Wire16 Mar 2015, 9:18 PM PST0
Secretary of State John Kerry told CBS News that the United States is now willing to negotiate with (and accept as a legitimate ruler) Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, a striking contrast from the administration’s prior insistence that regime change would be the only tolerated approach for Damascus.
by Jordan Schachtel16 Mar 2015, 10:17 AM PST0
Britain needs to be vigilant as many more young Muslims are travelling to Syria to join ISIS than previously realised, a senior politician has said. Keith Vaz, chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee, made his comments last night following the
by Donna Rachel Edmunds16 Mar 2015, 7:49 AM PST0
(SKY NEWS) Three British teenagers are back in the UK after being detained for allegedly trying to travel to Syria to join terror group Islamic State. Follow Breitbart London on Twitter @BreitbartLondon
by Breitbart London16 Mar 2015, 6:30 AM PST0
On Sunday, Pope Francis decried the massacre of Christians in Lahore, Pakistan, and denounced a worldwide effort to conceal the reality of Christian persecution.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.16 Mar 2015, 5:31 AM PST0
Pakistani Christians have long protested the lack of government protection from terrorist attacks and random, unsubstantiated accusations of blasphemy. Sunday’s Taliban attack on two Christian churches in Lahore resulted in the death of at least 14 people, with many dozens wounded. Again, a lack of police presence seems to be a contributing factor in the violence.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.16 Mar 2015, 5:21 AM PST0
Nigerian troops reported this week that they discovered a facility they are describing as a “bomb factory” run by the radical Islamic group Boko Haram in northeast Borno state.
by Mary Chastain15 Mar 2015, 6:22 AM PST0
CIA Director John Brennan refused to refer to the Islamic State (ISIS) terror group as an “Islamic” terrorist organization in a Friday speech at the Council on Foreign Relations, repeating White House rhetoric.
by Jordan Schachtel14 Mar 2015, 9:04 PM PST0
On Fox & Friends this morning, Breitbart National Security editor and Major General Horner Chair of Military Theory at the Marine Corps University Dr. Sebastian Gorka warned that any intervention against the Islamic State in Iraq on the part of Iran was not a positive development for the United States, as the warring factions of Islam are both fighting to establish a caliphate.
by Frances Martel14 Mar 2015, 10:33 AM PST0
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi sat down with the Washington Post for a wide-ranging interview, covering a plethora of issues in which his country remains deeply involved, including the struggle against the Muslim Brotherhood and global jihadi terrorism and Egypt’s promising relationship with the state of Israel.
by Jordan Schachtel13 Mar 2015, 9:47 PM PST0
Rasmieh Odeh, a Palestinian terrorist who had previously been convicted of assisting in a Jerusalem supermarket bombing, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for omitting her involvement in the jihadist act on her U.S. immigration papers, according to reports.
by Jordan Schachtel13 Mar 2015, 5:54 AM PST0
Reuters reports that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, using an undercover operative, have thwarted a plot by a Pakistani man to attack the U.S. Consulate and other buildings in the financial district of Toronto.
by John Hayward12 Mar 2015, 12:32 PM PST0
In a demonstration of close ties between Tehran and the Palestinian terror group, Hamas chairman Khaled Mashaal, who has made a home in Qatar, met with Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larjani on Wednesday during his visit to Doha.
by Jordan Schachtel12 Mar 2015, 10:22 AM PST0
Between 2006 and 2007, at least twelve Democratic Congressmen agreed to meet with Iranian officials in the Ayatollah’s regime at the behest of National Iranian American Council (NIAC) President Trita Parsi, according to a report by Hassan Dai of the Iranian American Forum.
by Jordan Schachtel11 Mar 2015, 7:26 PM PST0
Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi joined others in calling for the destruction of Egypt’s Great Sphinx and Pyramids. In a statement out this week, said it is a Muslim’s “religious duty” to destroy the monuments. The monuments are the only one of the Seven Ancient Wonders of the World still in existence.
by Mary Chastain11 Mar 2015, 12:33 PM PST0
The Kurdish town of Kobane opened up the first school since the town was liberated from the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in January.
by Mary Chastain11 Mar 2015, 10:53 AM PST0
Former Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) hostage Nicolas Henin, 39, spoke out recently about his ten months with the jihadist group. He told the BBC the militants enjoyed Teletubbies and Game of Thrones. He also claimed there were some who could not come to terms with the blood the group spills on an almost daily basis.
by Mary Chastain11 Mar 2015, 8:55 AM PST0
The Saudi Arabian government has responded with fury to suggestions that its jailing and vicious punishment of a liberal activist was in any way unjustified.
by Jordan Schachtel10 Mar 2015, 8:08 PM PST0
WASHINGTON—Rep. Robert Pittenger (R-NC), the chairman of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, released a manual to help Americans prepare for terrorist attacks and cyber crimes.
by Edwin Mora10 Mar 2015, 5:34 PM PST0
As recently as last night Eastern Time, reports circulated that the Colombia government had approved the extradition of major Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) terrorist Eduardo Cabrera (alias ‘The Priest’) to New York, where he awaits a 16-year prison term. Hours later, the government has rescinded its agreement with the United States.
by Frances Martel10 Mar 2015, 6:57 AM PST0
In 2014, Saudi Arabia passed India as the largest weapons importer in the world, according to a new report on world defense trade by the London-based IHS Jane’s organization. The figure covers all defense imports, except for munitions and small arms, leaving out anything under 57mm caliber.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.10 Mar 2015, 6:42 AM PST0
A 20-year-old man who planned to murder the president and attack the U.S. Capitol with pipe bombs confessed he made the plans in sympathy with ISIS. In an interview from jail, he warned that the group has followers in every state and claimed additional attacks are on the way.
by John Sexton9 Mar 2015, 5:28 PM PST0
Two teenage boys were stopped by Aussie authorities while they were attempting to fly out of Sydney Airport and join the Islamic State’s (ISIS) jihad in Syria and Iraq.
by Jordan Schachtel9 Mar 2015, 1:00 PM PST0
As the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) expands, members are reporting rifts in various factions of the group. Those who have fled the group and residents in areas the jihadist group controls claim that the more fighters the group recruits, the more problems ISIS leaders have begun to face.
by Mary Chastain9 Mar 2015, 12:32 PM PST0
