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Category Archives: Arab World

The International Community

19-Mar-10

On Wednesday, Jordan’s King Abdullah urged the international community to intervene in order to prevent “Israel’s provocative actions in the occupied Palestinian territories, which are intended to change Jerusalem’s identity.”
Abdullah met in the afternoon with EU foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, after which the royal palace issued a harsh criticism of the Jewish Country:
“We cannot [...]

“DAY OF RAGE”

18-Mar-10

THE SCOOP
What does Hamas do when they sense things are not going their way? Declare a sloppy Jihad!
Hundreds of Palestinians held a “Day of Rage” yesterday – the Palestinian Authority announced a general alert and Israeli Border Police did their job.
What does a “Day of Rage” entail? Why, it entails throwing stones at security forces [...]

Restoring Egypt’s Synagogues

10-Mar-10

Just in time for the festival of Pesach, Egypt’s culture minister says that it will shoulder the costs of restoring the country’s synagogue’s.
Farouk Hosny says that his ministry views Jewish sites as much a part of Egypt’s culture as Muslim mosques or Coptic churches and the restorations would not require any foreign funding. This marks [...]

Syria and Israel Wax Nuclear in Paris

10-Mar-10

On Tuesday both Israel and Syria announced ambitions to develop nuclear energy, with Israel facing the prospect that its plan could bring new attention to its secretive nuclear noodling.
The confessions were made at an international conference in Paris on civilian nuclear energy. Nuclear energy contributes far less to global warming than the burning of fossil [...]

Tell Me Lies Tell Me Sweet Little Lies

28-Feb-10

At least 30 Arab youths who barricaded themselves in the al-Aqsa Mosque plaza at the Temple Mount and hurled stones at passers-by, provoked Israeli Police last night and early this morning.
Stones were occasionally thrown at police officers in the alleys of the Old City, including near the Antonia Fortress, which is one of the [...]

Last Vacation in Dubai

28-Feb-10

It’d make a good spy thriller novel, you know?
Those keepers of law and justice, the Dubai police have released the names of new suspects linked to the slaying of a top Hamas operative and founder Mahmoud al-Mabhouh.
Wednesday saw the Dubai police release the names of 15 suspects, bringing to 26 the number of people suspected. [...]

We Were Refugees

25-Feb-10

A law passed through Knesset on Monday, mandating that the rights of Jews who fled Arab lands should be taken into consideration – Palestinians and Israeli Arabs, displaced during the war in 1948 are not the only ones who have the right to demand compensation as refugees.

MK Nissim Ze’ev said that the law which [...]

I RAN TO SEE THE NEW DRONE FLEET BY THE BOYS IN BLUE

23-Feb-10

Those geniuses in Israel have done it again. Readers, WE have done it again…as we have always been a nation by and for the Jews and under one auspice of nature divine – if you don’t mind.

Stumped in a game of international nuclear chess, the Jews have long wondered how to eliminate the Persian threat. [...]

Time is Running Out

21-Feb-10

It is not sit back and watch as – but more of a chance that the strategic relationship between Israel and the United States could collapse amid their dispute over Iran.
In three simulations conducted in Israel and the United States, a dispute was had over a response to Iran’s nuclear weapons program. The simulations [...]

Dig This

18-Feb-10

A home renovation in the Old City of Jerusalem yielded an unusual Arabic inscription offering insight into the history of Muslim rule in the holy city.
The fragment of the 1,100-year-old plaque was probably made by an army veteran expressing his thanks for a land grant from the Caliph al-Muqtadir, whom the inscription names “Emir of [...]

Declaring War One Incident at a Time

14-Feb-10

IDF soldiers opened fire Friday morning on Palestinian terrorists who were caught planting explosive devices along the security fence that separates Israel from Gaza, near Kibbutz Kissufim in the western Negev region.
The terrorists fled the scene.
The four terror cell members came to the fence carrying grenades and assault rifles. They were able to plant [...]

Do the Eyes Deceive?

14-Feb-10

Over 100 Israeli Arabs arrived Thursday morning at the Erez crossing point of Gaza and called for the release of kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit, as well as Palestinian prisoners.
Malik Faraj of the Arab village Kafr Qasim founded the “Ner LeShalom ve Ahva” (a candle for peace and love) foundation that initiated the event. Faraj [...]

Israel Goes to College

11-Feb-10

Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon was giving a talk at England’s Oxford University on Monday night, hosted by the university’s Student Union, when a student began shouting,
“Itbah Al-Yahud”
…Ayalon knew what it meant…it means “kill the Jews.”
“Our policy is always to await the outcome of police investigations where criminal offences are alleged, and to look [...]

IRAN: 20% Increase on Uranium Stockpile, 15% on Rhetoric

09-Feb-10

“Today Palestine is the symbol of life, determination, faithfulness, diligence, and dignity,”
Iran’s Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei told Ramadan Abdullah, the secretary general of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement.
“Israel is going downhill toward decline and fall and God willing its obliteration is certain.”
In these sentiments, Khameini joined a long list of top Iranian officials, [...]

Oh Aafia!

06-Feb-10

Aafia Siddiqui is a 37-year-old Pakistani scientist who trained in the US at Brandeis and at MIT. She was convicted on Wednesday of charges that she tried to kill Americans while being detained in Afghanistan in 2008. The jury was deliberated three days in a Manhattan federal court, before the gavel sounded its final slam.

As [...]