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The Israeli and Egyptian armies and the Hamas regime in Gaza are on high alert at Sinai and Gaza borders and near smuggling tunnels, according to eyewitnesses quoted by the Egyptian Independent. Police stations, the airport at El Arish, the Kerem Shalom crossing, jails and entry points are under heavy security.
JERUSALEM – Even as Secretary of State John Kerry tried to put a positive spin on his arduous negotiations with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in an effort to restart Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, high-ranking Israeli government officials and Israeli media outlets said that the growing chaos in Egypt and the continuing Syrian civil war, along with Abbas’s intransigence, were undermining the chances for a resumption of talks in the coming months.
Mobs protesting the rule of Mohammed Morsi have sexually assaulted nearly 100 women and raped at least 91 in the last four days of protests, Human Rights Watch reported. Forty-six attacks took place on Sunday, 17 on Monday and 43 on Tuesday, according to figures attributed to the Egyptian Operation Anti-Sexual Harassment/Assault, which operates a […]
The US created a Palestinian Authority army and still trains “policemen.” One of its cadets was killed in a riot against the IDF Tuesday. Now, an officer has been arrested for trying to murder a Jew.
The Egyptian army military announced on Tuesday it will establish an interim regime if Mohammed Morsi cannot come to an agreement with opposition forces by Wednesday night, a virtual impossibility. The army insisted it is not intending to rule the country, but in effect it plans to unilaterally dissolve the legislature and appoint Egypt’s chief […]
The New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief and a correspondent in Washington have woken up and realized that there are a few matters in the Middle East a bit more urgent than fawning over the fossil of the peace process. Under the headline “Chaos in Middle East Grows as the U.S. Focuses on Israel,” Judi […]
Iraqi, Jordanian, and Turkish border guards are pushing back tens of thousands of people trying to flee Syria, Human Rights Watch charged on Monday. “Iraq, Jordan, and Turkey have either closed numerous border crossings entirely or allowed only limited numbers of Syrians to cross, leaving tens of thousands stranded in dangerous conditions in Syria’s conflict-ridden […]
Egypt may be on the brink of another temporary military regime or civil war. The army told Morsi to make peace with the opposition within 48 hours or face a military “roadmap.”
Muslim Brothers exchanged fire with demonstrators in several cities.
Protesters chanted "Leave!"
Netanyahu told his cabinet that any agreement would be brought to a vote of the people.
The Palestinian Authority is a master at inventing history. Arabs claim they have been there long before Jews although evidence proves the contrary. The tactic is conquering the southern Hevron Hills.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has turned his schedule upside down to keep his three-ring circus from collapsing under his “peace tent” that he has weighted down with his fake smile and iron fist to save himself from looking like a diplomatic clown. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas are […]
Israeli Prime Minister has publicly stated several times recently: "If Hezbollah is not a terrorist organization, I don't know what is a terrorist organization."
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry may or may come up with results in his peace process trip to the region, but at least he will have a full stomach. He ate and talked with Jordan’s King Abdullah in Amman Thursday afternoon before flying to Jerusalem, where he and the Prime Minister will dine at […]
Turkish premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan will visit Gaza next Friday, even though he said earlier this week that protested against his government have forced him to suspend plans to honor Hamas with a visit. A Palestinian Authority newspaper quoted the Hamas regime’s secretary Abdulsalam Siyam as saying that two Turkish officials and several journalists already […]
Kerry has great timing. He comes to Israel hours after the anniversary of the death of the founder of Zionism, giving Netanyahu the opportunity to state there is no peace without security.
It's doubtful that Rouhani ever attended the British university in person.
The Arab world has mined the diplomatic field before Kerry’s visit Thursday. Saudi Arabia tells Kerry the PA musty be a “contiguous” state. Jordan’s King Abdullah: A stalemate will result in violence.
Here’s good reason for Israel’s saying that UNESCO has been hijacked by the PA agenda. ”Israel planning to raze Al-Aqsa to build ‘second temple,” Screams Saudi Gazette headline. PS: They can’t count.
Whether Robert Malley will be the most anti-Israel person on Secretary of State John Kerry's foreign policy team may be a tough call, but he sure will fit right in
American sanctions on trade with Iran have enough exceptions that the Islamic Republic imported from the United States 4,000 tons of goods valued at $18.6 million in the last two months, Iran’s Mehr News Agency reported Tuesday. Iran measures the two-month period from March 21, the beginning of its calendar year. The imports of approximately […]
Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday he cannot visit Gaza as planned because of the protest movement in his country but that he could "make a surprise any time." He has been saying for two years that he will visit the Hamas-controlled region, a trip that would boost the terrorist organization’s stature. However, […]
Jihadist terrorists fired a Grad missile in the Sinai Tuesday, causing no injuries or damage. Egyptian sources said that attack was a warm-up for Sunday when widespread violence is expected in massive demonstrations against the Muslim Brotherhood government of Mohammed Morsi. His defense minister warned that the army will intervene is the protests turn violent on […]
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has succeeded in convincing the European Union to back off from passing another critical resolution of a Jewish presence in Judea and Samaria, an indication that the international community is losing its patience with the Palestinian Authority. The Foreign Ministers were expected to adopt a critical resolution on Israeli settlement policy […]
Globe-trotting U.S. Secretary of State John Kelly has left India for Saudi Arabia and Kuwait before flying to Jordan and Israel later this week to tackle the issue of Palestinian Authority demands. The Saudi kingdom is a powerful ally of the United States and is solidly behind the rebels in the Syrian civil war. Kerry […]
Egypt has enough diesel fuel to last eight days, butane enough for ten days and petrol enough for 14 days and no-one has proposed a way to find the more than $20 billion a year that Egypt requires to stay afloat.
By JTA
Druze leaders living on the Israeli Golan Heights asked Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to allow Druze from 20 families in Syria to enter Israel. The Druze living in Syria had left the Golan as students, many marrying and starting families, but the request could expand to include family members of the Golan Druze stuck in […]
The Syrian civil war continued to spill over inside Lebanon Sunday when Hezbollah forces killed at least four Lebanese soldiers and two others after an attack on a military checkpoint near Sidon by Salafist anti-Hezbollah forces loyal to Sheikh Ahmed Assir. Assir’s fighters used RPGs and set on fire at least one armored personnel carrier, […]
Women in Iran are pinning their hopes on Hassan Rohani to pass what would be a sweeping reform in the Islamic Republic – allowing them to enter a soccer stadium. The issue is not minor in a country where an Iranian sports journalist told Turkey’s Hurriyet News, “In terms of freedom of expression, football stadiums […]
The U.S. troops that are to be deployed in the Sinai are a mere "formality," says Egyptian Army Spokesman Ahmed Ali said on Saturday, according to Al Ahram. "The 400 U.S. soldiers coming to Egypt as mentioned in the media are part of the periodical renewal routine for the U.S. faction of the 13-state multinational […]
An IDF medical team sent a 13 year old Syrian girl to the Western Galilee Hospital in Nahariya (northern Israel) for treatment. She suffered serious facial and body injuries, according to a report in Walla. The girl had an fracture in her leg that required surgery, as well as shrapnel damage to her face that […]
The scholars at the American Enterprise Institute responded to the age-old effort to blame the Jews mostly with humor, but also with a suggestion for Erdogan. If he wants to see who is responsible for Turkey's situation, he should hold up a mirror.
Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Lebanon said the kingdom plans to deport Lebanese citizens who back the Hezbollah terrorist organization, the latest sign of Saudi concern over Hezbollah’s direct military offensive with the army of Syrian President Bassar al-Assad. Saudi Arabia air ruled by Sunni Muslims, and most of the Sunnis in Syria are part of […]
Iran’s state-controlled media announced it will build a new nu clear “research center” for the production of medical isotopes. The new reactor is to be built approximately 420 miles south of Tehran and will supplement Iran’s Bushehr reactor.
Khaled abu Toameh, who for years has been the leading journalist reporting accurately on the Palestinian Authority, its many divisions and opponents, as well as the situation in general in Israel and the wider Middle East posted on his Facebook page the bombshell that the brand new Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority, Rami Hamdallah, […]
Yisrael Beitenu Knesset Member Shimon Ohayon, on United Nations World Refugee Day, called on the Arab League to accept responsibility for the exodus of Jews from the group’s countries before and after the re-establishment of the State of Israel . “The Jews of Arab countries, starting in 1947, were used as weapons by the Arab […]
Every normal person knows Rohani is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. For the abnormal, (Read: Western diplomats) guess what? He helped plan to kill Jews in Buenos Aires and backed hiding Iran’s nuke program.
A 13-year-old girl died while being circumcised by a doctor in a small village northeast of Cairo, according to the website Al Masry Al Youm. Suhair al-Bata'a, who went by the nickname Soo-Soo, died of a "sharp drop in blood pressure resulting from shock trauma," was the statement given by officials following the child's autopsy. […]
Syrian rebels for the first time have accused Hezbollah of using chemical weapons in battles with the Syrian opposition forces. According to the Rebel sources, the forces of Syrian President Assad and Hezbollah used poison gas during the Thursday morning shelling of Zamlika, near Damascus. The head of the UN team examining reports on the […]
By Ron Kampeas
WASHINGTON – Former national security adviser, former nuclear negotiator, a decades-old friendship with the supreme leader – Hassan Rohani is as Iranian establishment as it gets.
What’s more important to the US, another Arab state within Israel’s current borders or the Iranian nuclear threat? The answer is in expected US arms to Israel. Despite budget cuts, it will increase.
Russia is now Iran’s spokesman. It says Iran is ready to stop enriching 20 % uranium. The West, of course, must respond by lifting sanctions, while Rohani says Iran won’t all halt all enrichment.
American actor Robert De Niro landed in Israel with his son Tuesday morning for a 24-visit, highlighted by his appearance at this evening's birthday bash for President Shimon Peres, who turns 9o on August 2. DeNiro, who is not Jewish, met with the president at his Jerusalem home, and among other topics, they spoke about […]
Egypt has deployed helicopters to patrol the Sinai Peninsula and has declared a state of alert in the area after radical Islamic terrorists from Gaza set up a base in the central Sinai. Curfews were clamped on Sinai cities, including the Egyptian side of Rafiah and el-Arish, according to the Bethlehem-based Ma'an news agency. Approximately […]
Obama wants to arm Syrian rebels. Saudi Arabia is giving them anti-aircraft missiles. And Al Qaeda has a how-to manual use them. Then it can do what Israel feared Assad would do – down an Israeli plane.
On Sunday, Turkish police detained 441 people following clashes in Istanbul between police and anti-government protesters, an official at the city's bar association told Reuters. Throughout Sunday, police in Istanbul shot water cannon and tear gas at thousands of demonstrators who were trying to get into Taksim Square. An official from the capital Ankara bar […]
The IDF is refusing to comment on a report on a Syrian television channel associated with the rebels, according to which Israel attacked the Al Maza airport west of Damascus. The IDF Spokesperson's office says they never comment on this kind of reports. The Suria Mubasher TV channel said Israel bombed advanced weapons and Radar […]
“If he (Rohani) is interested in, as he has said in his campaign, mending Iran’s relations with the rest of the world, there is an opportunity to do that.”
“We won’t kid ourselves. The international community shouldn’t be tempted into wishful thinking,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Sunday after the victory of relatively moderate cleric Hasan Rohani as Iran’s new president.. “We must remember that, anyway, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei sets Iran’s nuclear policy. Iran will be tested by its deeds,” Netanyahu added. Likud minister […]
Egyptian’s Muslim Brotherhood President Mohammed Morsi announced Saturday he will cut diplomatic ties with the regime of Bashar Assad and close Cairo’s embassy in Damascus. He also demanded that Hezbollah leave Syria adding, “There is no business or place for Hezbollah in Syria.” Morsi spoke at a rally organized by hardline Islamists, whose clerics told […]
Iran and the US don’t have to go to war. They already are there. Obama arms Sunni rebels. Iran sends Hezbollah Shi’ites to help Assad. And Israel prays it won’t get the dirty end of the stick.
Erdogan goes berserk. One hour after delivering an ultimatum to protesters to leave Taksim Square, police attacked them with rubber bullets and tear gas, injuring drivers as well.
A Press Statement from Secretary of State John Kerry: We have seen the announcement by Iran’s Interior Ministry that Hassan Rouhani has been declared the winner of the country’s 11th presidential election. We admire the courage of the Iranian people who went to the polls and made their voices heard in a rigidly controlled environment […]
By JTA
The president will have to report every 90 days on how the policy is being implemented.
USA Today posts Boycott Israel press release as a "news" article. Lies about Israel are reprinted as if true, assisting in the effort to convince US singer Alicia Keys to boycott Israel.
Obama jumps off the fence and will arm rebels. Military planners proposed a limited no-fly zone in Syria to help arm rebels. The US charges that Assad has killed more than 100 with chemical weapons.
A referendum might be held on the future of Gezi Park in Istanbul.
After their abject defeat on the hands of the Syrian army and the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah in the central strategic city of al-Qussair near the Lebanese border, the radical Sunni rebels on Wednesday stormed a Shiite village in eastern Syria, killing 60 villagers and burning out their homes, Xinhua reports. Radical Sunni Muslim rebels […]
US policy in the Middle East never has been brilliants, but deciding on whether to arm Syrian rebels means either backing Al Qaeda and the rebels or letting Hezbollah move into the regime.
The Assad regime escalated the spillover of the civil war Wednesday with a helicopter-mounted missile attack on a Sunni Muslim Lebanese urban center, wounding at least two people, including a schoolteacher. It was the first time Syrian forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad have attacked a Lebanese city, having limited previous attacks to villages […]
By dvora
There is a “real possibility” that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad “could survive Syria’s civil war and even prevail in it” against the rebels trying to topple him, Israeli International Relations and Strategic Affairs Minister Dr. Yuval Steinitz told a group of foreign journalists in Jerusalem on Monday.
Common enemies, Iran and Syria, have brought Israel and Turkey together. The Mossad chief reportedly flew to Ankara for a pow-wow Turkish intelligence. Is Assad linked to Turkish protests?
The Muslim leader of al-Azhar offered to renew ties with the Vatican, but strongly suggested Pope Francis start off by proclaiming that Islam is a peaceful religion. A Coptic organization has suggested that Muslim leaders are the only ones who can make Islam a peaceful religion, and encouraged the Imam to take on that task.
Gulf Arab states on Monday threatened sanctions against the Lebanese Shi'ite terrorist group Hezbollah in retaliation for its intervention in support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Reuters reported. The six Sunni-led members of the Gulf Cooperation Council issued a similar statement, according to the GCC secretariat, as reported by the Saudi Press Agency: "The GCC […]
A double suicide bombing in the center of Damascus morning killed at least two people and injured two dozen others, according to a regime-operated television station. The reported attacks coincide with what appears to be the upper hand that Hezbollah has given forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad. They are prep raring to recapture […]
Turkish riot police stormed Taksim Square early Tuesday morning and clashed with protesters, one day before protests leaders were to meet with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Authorities said the police only entered the area '”to clear the banners and flags on [a] statue and the AKM cultural center." However, they also told the […]
r Liberman said that unless the EU places Hezbollah on its terrorist organization list, Israel should stop allowing the EU to meddle in Israel's diplomacy
Erdogan’s ruling party uncovers terror “deadlier than a car bomb.” It’s called Twitter ,and Turkey will carry out counterterrorist measures to ban Twitter “slander.” Now the world can sleep better.
Michael Oren knows his job. Never agitate the US. Don’t say Israel’s right when the US “knows” it’s wrong. It’s no wonder he praises Samantha Power, but must he say she “really cares” about Israel?
The rebels took Alepo in July, 2012, and since then this major industrial center had been bombarded regularly by Army forces.
Erdogan is sounding more like Assad and Mubarak every day. Protesters were vandals,. Now they are terrorists. He is making every mistake possible, fueling the protest movement by insulting it.
Club-wielding men wearing the yellow band identified with the Hezbollah terrorist organization killed protesters in an attack on anti-Hezbollah demonstration outside the Iranian embassy in Beirut on Sunday. It was not known if the attackers were Hezbollah guards or were sympathizers with Hezbollah, which dominate the neighborhood of the embassy. One man reportedly opened fire […]
"The Government of Israel Liaison Officer informed UNDOF that the IDF had provided emergency medical treatment to a total of 16 armed members of the opposition."
Erdogan blamed the "financial lobby" for Turkey's unrest and recent economic troubles. Sound familiar?
By Shalom Bear
Once again the UN has failed at peacekeeping. Israel is now concerned it will be dragged into war with Syria if the buffer zone falls..
President Bashar al-Assad's Syrian army has recaptured the Golan Heights crossing—the only crossing on the ceasefire border with Israel—in a setback for rebels, only one day after rebel forces had been forced out of the strategic town of Qusayr, AFP reports. The capture of the town Qusayr, after weeks of bloody battles, leaves President Assad […]
The Syrian side of the border crossing near the Syrian town of Quneitra has been captured by the rebels after heavy fighting Thursday. Quneitra is the only border crossing between Israel and Syria, and this is the first time it has been captured by the rebels since the fighting began in early 2011. The IDF […]
Turkey is burning. Nine days of riots. Three dead. Erdogan’s police arrest society’s enemy – Twitters. Now, a Turkish doctor charges police are using Condoleezza Rice gas, a chemical agent.
The Gulf Cooperation Council took the lead against Hezbollah Tuesday and unanimously declared it a terrorist organization, a designation that the European Union is considering. “All GCC countries are convinced that Hezbollah is a terrorist organization,” Bahrain’s Foreign Minister Ghanim bin Fadl Al-Buainain told reporters in Jeddah. “There is no difference of opinion among the […]
Look out below! Donilon quits as National Ssecurity Advser. Rice replaces him and Samantha Power, of ‘Inavde Israel’ and ‘Clinton is a monster’ fame, nominated to take over as UN Ambassador.
Amateur videos said to be from the June 4 funeral appear to confirm the reports.
“We strongly believe that Jerusalem should be recognized as the capital of Israel with no waivers and no caveats,” said the co-chair of the congressional Israel Allies Caucus.
By JTA
An Egyptian court on Tuesday convicted 43 employees of NGOs in Egypt, including 19 Americans, of using foreign funds to incite violence in the country. The workers were sentenced to jail terms of one to five years and fines. Most of the American workers, including Sam LaHood, the son of U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, […]
It couldn’t happen to a more deserving country. Iran sits on seismic faults and experiences an earthquake almost every day. This time, tremors damaged the Bushehr nuke site. Iran, of course, denies it.
News from Russia: Putin says he has not yet shipped any S-300 anti-aircraft missiles to Syria. Even bigger news: Putin is telling the truth for once.
Israel security personnel have broken up another Hamas terrorist cell linked with one of more than 1,000 terrorists and security prisoners freed last year to bring home kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit. The Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet), IDF and police arrested Bachar Attalah Sa'ad, who lives near Ramallah, on charges of plotting to kidnap an […]
Leave it to John Kerry and his Foggy Bottom aides to come up with the idea, intentional or not, to make the anniversary of the Six-Day War as the deadline for talks. Instead, Arabs plan mass protest.
Thank God it was Greenpeace and not Hezbollah. If terrorists, instead of activists, had entered Israel’s natural gas terminal and roamed freely for 90 minutes, it would have been a mass catastrophe.
Just as the majority cannot oppress the minority, the minority cannot oppress the majority either.
Syria returns the favor, in light of the escalating violence in Turkey.
Another Arab with Israeli citizenship has been exposed as a traitor. Zahar Ben Omar Yusfin, of the Arab city Shfaram, located immediately east of Haifa, allegedly handed over to a Hezbollah agent intelligence information of an IDF base. He was charged with “making contact with an enemy agent, assisting a banned organization, and passing on […]
The Iranian Intelligence Ministry alleged on Sunday it has uncovered a Mossad-trained network of terrorists with links to the spy agency of an Arab state, plotting to sabotage Iran’s upcoming election. “The ringleader of this group was recruited by the spy agency of one of the most dependent and reactionary Arab countries in the region,” […]
You find the rats when the ship sinks. The Iranian dictatorship used to love the Hamas dictatorship until Hamas opposed the Assad dictatorship. Hamas asks, “How could Ahmadinejad support a dictator?”
On Saturday night, Prime Minister Erdogan has admitted "some cases" of extreme police action.
By Atara Beck
“You don’t have to send delegations to Hungary to witness raw antisemitism.”
When the going gets tough, Arab leaders routinely huff and puff at Israel. On cue, Assad threatens to open military front against Israel.
Everyone is going nuts over Assad’s statement that he already has received Russia’s sophisticated S-300 anti-aircraft missiles. But when did Assad ever tell the truth?
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez has close ties with other Latin American leaders who are friends of Iran.
JERUSALEM – Sirens wailed across Israel on Monday, as the country’s Home Front Command began testing a new nationwide alert system as a measure to warn the citizenry of what to do in the event of an impending missile attack. Conventional methods, as well as smartphone and social media applications, were used in the test.
September 11, 2026 
