On Sunday evening, PM Netanyahu called for an independent Kurdish state, at a policy speech in Tel Aviv.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
Tourism Minister: Proposal will strengthen the peace between Israel and Jordan.
Netanyahu addresses foreign media, calls for Syria-like deal vis-à-vis Iran
By Shalom Bear
Hamas denies that ISIS is in Gaza, but the facts seem to disagree.
Former Israel National Security Advisor Yaacov Amidror said that if Jordan asks for help against ISIS, Israel should help them, during an interview on Galei Tzahal. If ISIS overruns Jordan, it would create a serious strategic risk for Israel. Jordan has deployed a large number of army units along the border with Iraq, including tanks, […]
A fire department crew reported that they were fired on Saturday night from Syria.
Iran apparently does fear something; Tehran is watching ISIS fighters closely on its Iraqi border.
"Jews were ethnically cleansed from what is now known as the Arab world, [they] were there before the Arabs even arrived,” MK Ohayon said.
“My friends all say I'm losing it big time…I'm going back there again/Back to the house of pain “ – Deep Purple
The U.S. releases military aid to Egypt after a year-long freeze; Sec'y John Kerry promises 10 Apache helicopters to fight terror in Sinai.
By Shalom Bear
An unprovoked Syrian attack killed an Israel boy on vacation from school. The IDF retaliated and hit multiple Syrian military targets in response.
'The problem with Middle East scholarship? Edward Said is treated like a guru and hero and Fouad Ajami isn't.'
Eight hours after Mohammed Karake was killed by a Syrian anti-tank missile, no Palestinian or human rights org has condemned the crime.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
An apparent deliberate attack from Syria on the Golan Heights has killed 1 Israeli child and injured 2 adults.
Serry says he was trying to openly, not secretly, funnel money to Hamas.
Israel isn't afraid of sanctions from Iraq, which doesn't permit oil sales to Israel.
By JTA
An Iranian court sentenced a man to five years in prison on charges of spying for Israel.
Iraq has threatened any country which buys the Iraqi Kurdistan crude oil. Israel is buying it.
Iran -- ironically -- has issued a warning that Sunni militants are trying to create 'disunity' in the Muslim world.
Turkey has evacuated its staff from the city of Basra, located in southern Iraq.
Will US envoy to OIC discuss the snatching of schoolgirls and boys by genocidal Islamist terrorists?
Breaking News: Fatah-linked group is latest in string of terror orgs to say they are holding boys; will demand thousands of Palestinian prisoners
Jordan appears to be the next target for the Al Qaeda-linked ISIS terrorist group, says an Arab news writer.
It is far from clear that Hamas is responsible for the current crisis. Netanyahu, however, set the stage by agreeing to the Shalit deal
An additional 10,000 Syrian refugees will be permitted to enter Germany.
By Edwin Black
For Lowey, the question is whether she will break with the Obama Administration, which has signaled willingness to continue funding the new Hamas-infused Palestinian Authority.
Palestinian Authority plans to bypass Western aid regulations by funnelling terrorist pensions through PLO
By Rachel Levy
The Al Qaeda-linked ISIL group is now eyeing Baghdad after swallowing northern and central Iraq, and eastern Syria. Emirate to follow?
The German government is cracking down on those who fight in the Syrian civil war; one who returned has been charged with terrorism.
Netanyahu brushed aside Lapid’s political threats, saying that he was either too politically inexperienced or unaware of the true nature of the peace negotiations with Abbas.
Reports on Palestinian infighting becoming daily feature. Today's segment: Fatah attacks Hamas in Ramallah, banks still closed in Gaza
Jordan summons Australian official over Canberra's decision to stop referring to east Jerusalem as 'occupied' territory.
For the first time since 2008, Iran's president has arrived in Turkey on a state visit.
By Rachel Levy
Arab media are salivating over Jewish squabbles about internal Israeli divisions on policy reported by wire services.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Fawzi Ayoub, a Hezbollah terrorist who was imprisoned in Israel for an attempted terrorist attack in Jerusalem and was also on the FBI's most wanted terrorist list, finally met his death in Syria last month.
The US is trying to reach an agreement with Iran on its nuclear weapons program so it can drop the sanctions against them.
Hypocritical statements emanate from Jordan.
On Saturday night, a Lebanese car ran into the crash/infiltration barrier separating the border between Lebanon and Israel...
Parliament speaker to ask US Secretary of State John Kerry to intervene, give up claim to coastal waters
Obama tried to re-set US-Muslim relations, but he has failed to meet the challenges of his time in office.
By Shalom Bear
Kerry's friendly visit to Hezbollah dominated Lebanon was a message to Israel.
Syrian Rebels are claiming that Israel fired the anti-tank missiles after 2 mortars landing within Israel.
11.3% of Population to be culled.
Current Syrian president Bashar al-Assad is expected to "win".
Morocco’s national soccer federation stepped in at the last minute last week to protect innocent young Moroccans from the unbridled humiliation and degradation of playing against Israeli children. On May 27, Moroccan authorities announced they would pull two teams, made up of 11-year-olds and 13-year-olds, from the Kawkab Athletic Club Marrakech out of the Mondial […]
An early morning round of rockets from Syria hit locations on the Hermon Mountain.
Residents on the Israeli side of the Golan Heights were woken up by alert sirens at 5:55 AM on Saturday morning, in response to fighting in Syria along the border with Israel.
Someone scammed California taxpayers, using their money for faculty meet-ups with terrorists.
By JTA
Hackers believed to be from Iran used social media and a fake news website to spy on leaders in the United States, Israel and other countries.
Lebanon’s Daily Star newspaper reported Thursday that Maronite Patriarch Beshara Rai, who is currently on a landmark visit to Israel, said he would ask Lebanese authorities to allow former members of the South Lebanon Army to return to their homeland. The SLA fought alongside Israel during the latter’s maintenance of the security sone, a 17-kilometer […]
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi swept the polls to become Egypt's new president Wednesday. Can he fix a broken nation?
An Iranian Revolutionary Guard officer, Colonel Mohammad Eskandari, was identified as the man that was beheaded in Syria last week. He was beheaded by the Al Qaida linked Al-Nusra Front Syrian opposition. Iran and Hezbollah support Assad in the battle for control over Syria, while Al-Qaida and the US support the rebels/opposition/freedom fighters. Iranian soldiers […]
Syria oldest synagogue was flattened and destroyed over the weekend.
Fighting in Ukrainian city prevents Jews from leaving; Jewish Agency steps of to help
Since taking office in 2003, Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan has moved to align Turkey with Islamist elements
A Turkish court has issued arrest warrants for four ex-IDF officers over the deaths of 10 Turkish citizens on board the Mavi Marmara.
By JTA
Amos Yadlin invites Saudi Prince Faisal Al Saud for talks on 2002 Arab Peace Initiative
Egyptians are headed to the polls today and tomorrow to choose a president for the second time since 2011.
Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah celebrated the 14th anniversary of Israel’s withdrawal from the south Lebanon security zone Sunday with a warning that the terror group's operatives are, "active day and night to improve our deterrence capabilities," and that this progress "worries the Israeli enemy." Since Labor Prime Minister Ehud Barak withdrew from Lebanon against […]
Additional fatality from 2010 attack brings Mavi Marmara toll to 10; Ankara rejects Israel 'compensation' offer
Concern in Israel about Jordan-Iraq plans to lie oil pipeline in Gulf of Eilat
By Shalom Bear
Former Balad party MK Sayid Nafa met with terrorists while in Syria. Not the first Balad MK to do so either.
In Eman Mohammed's TED interview were wildly false accounts of IDF ethical standards and actions.
Syrian border has been quietist in Israel for more than 40 years. Could al-Qaeda on the border change that?
The Palestinian Authority is hoping to use the upcoming visit by Pope Francis as a political pipebomb.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
Three Israeli students from Ben Gurion University of the Negev won second place at the International Cultural and Academic Meeting of Engineering Students conference (ICAMES), a world-wide engineering project competition organized by the Engineering Society of Bogazici University in Istanbul.
US Army Specialist Adrian M. Perkins, 19, of Pine Valley, California, was shot and killed on Saturday. He died in an Amman, Jordan hospital from his injuries. US military officials said the shooting was not combat related, but there are no other details known about the incident, other than officials say the shooter was not Jordanian, […]
More than 265,000 Egyptian expats voted in the Egyptian presidential elections.
Severe birth pains have accompanied Libya's lurch towards democracy.
By JTA
An Israeli held for 14 years in an Egyptian prison accused Israel’s prime minister of not doing enough to secure his release. The prisoner, Ouda Tarabin, is a former resident of the Bedouin city of Rahat, in the Negev Desert. He was arrested in 2000 while visiting Egypt, charged with being an Israeli spy and given […]
Talks between Iran and the U.S., Russia, China, Britain, France, and Germany in Vienna ended on Friday with no progress.
Expats have begun early voting in Egypt's presidential elections.
“The phenomenon of Israeli Arabs going to Syria presents a tremendous threat to the State of Israel," said Shabak officials
By JTA
Israel’s embassy in Turkey canceled a celebration of Israel’s Independence Day and President Shimon Peres sent a letter of condolence to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan following the mine collapse Wednesday in Manisa that trapped more than 700 miners underground. Erdogan said Wednesday that 238 miners had died and more than 200 remain trapped, while 363 […]
The United Nations is considering the possibility that Iran just might have figured out how to avoid international sanctions in order to continue that country’s drive to develop nuclear weapons. According to a confidential new report by a U.N. panel that compliance with international sanctions, Tehran appears to be using its petrochemical industry as a […]
By JTA
An Israeli man charged in the United States with selling arms to Iran was arrested at Israel’s Ben Gurion International Airport.
Clinton's State Department refused to name Boko Haram as foreign terrorist organization in 2011.
Once again, peace with Israel is a major campaign issue in Egypt. Frontrunner al-Sisi says treaty is 'stable'; challenger is long-time opponent of treaty
By Shalom Bear
This Arab is angry that everyone in the media is picking on poor David HaNachlawi.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani must be addicted to WhatsApp, because he reportedly applied his official veto and overrode the decision to outlaw WhatsApp in Iran.
Iranian Fars news agency reports a massive explosion in Qazvin city in Iran. The explosion supposedly happened in a "storage facility".
By Shalom Bear
Egypt is to receive 4.5 BCM (billion cubic meters) each year for 15 years, valued at 1.1 to 1.3 billion dollars a year.
Iran has outlawed WhatsApp, reportedly because it is now owned by that wily, Jewish, Zionist Mark Zuckerberg.
In photos of the two bloody crucified Syrians, passersby don't even give them a second glance.
Syrian soldiers and rebels killed more than 50 people and wounded more than 100 others in a car bomb blast in a regime-held neighborhood in Homs and mortar shelling attacks in Damascus. The car bomb explosion killed 36 people and wounded more than 85, most of them civilians. In Damascus, at least 17 died and […]
Kerry: I do not believe nor have I ever said that Israel is or intends to become an Apartheid State.
It is one thing “never to forget,” and it is another to remember not to let it happen again.
NYU SJP students crept into a primarily Jewish dorm and shoved propaganda under the doors of the sleeping students.
Turkey “will strongly support the reconciliation agreement and offer all humanitarian aid” for the Hamas-Fatah unity government that was announced Wednesday, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told Gaza’s de facto prime minister Ismail Haniyeh. Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan became a fan of Hamas five years ago, at the same time relations with Israel […]
At the press conference with the Israeli reporters, Abbas threatened to cancel the Oslo Accords, dismantle the Palestinian Authority, and force the Israeli government to pay the salaries of PA employees and the police.
By dvora
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Abbas must choose between peace with Israel or Hamas.
Egypt receives an estimated $700 million of oil every month from Arab countries, according to a report in the Egyptian Independent. Egypt's Petroleum Minister Sherif Ismail said that Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait have been supplying Egypt with the needed oil and financing since Morsi was deposed in July, to the tune […]
The US has decided to begin restoring its military aid to Egypt, apparently in response to the Egypt-Russia MiG-35 deal that is on the table.
Bashar Assad will be running for president of Syria again...
This massive Russian-Egyptian arms deal is a slap in the face for President Obama and his failed foreign policy.
By JTA
Jordan’s foreign minister summoned the Israeli ambassador to protest what it called Israel’s “violations” on the Temple Mount. The Jordanian government told Ambassador Daniel Nevo that recent clashes between Muslim worshippers and Israeli soldiers on the Temple Mount a violation of the peace treaty between Israel and Jordan. The Temple Mount was closed to visitors […]
The United States has announced it possesses evidence the Syrian government is using chemical weapons against its own civilians.
On Friday afternoon, Syrian fighter jets hit opposition/rebel targets and villages on the Syrian side of the Ramat HaGolan (Golan Heights), in the Quneitra region. Large pillars of smoke are seen rising from struck areas. Quneitra is the site of an official crossing between Syria and Israel on the Golan. IAF jets were sent out […]
The US may pretend it was forced to give up Pollard, but it is US that most wants to continue talks.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
A report in the Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper, citing sources in Lebanon, said Hezbollah is facing increasing financial pressure over austerity measures by the Iranian government since President Hassan Rouhani took office last summer, as well as strain over the terror group’s involvement in the Syrian civil war. Additionally, the report said Hezbollah is facing financial […]