The goal of the planned “provocative and hateful†flotilla to Gaza is aimed at fighting the IDF and not to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza, Navy Commander Vice Admiral Eliezer Meron said Sunday. The Foreign Ministry says that in any event, Gaza is not blockaded.
A mosque is being illegally constructed in close proximity to the graves of deceased prime minister Menachem Begin and Eliezer Ben Yehuda, the reviver of spoken Hebrew.
The law that no Muslim should be killed in Qisas (equality in punishment) for the killing of (a disbeliever).
What was once the most beautiful synagogue in Libya’s capital city can now be entered only by sneaking through a hole smashed in a back wall, climbing over dusty trash and crossing a stairwell strewn with abandoned shoes to a space occupied by cooing pigeons.
Curfew is a concept that is very alien to a country half of which plays dominos in coffee houses till 3:00 a.m. and the other half wakes up to the dawn call for prayers and half of each half sits in front of the TV till the first and second reruns of the day’s movies are aired.
They said it wouldn’t last—the popular revolt against Syrian President Bashar Al Assad. That he would quell it quickly, brutally even; that demonstrators wouldn’t be able to go beyond cities. All of it has been proven wrong—except the part about Mr. Assad’s brutal tactics.
Spanish police said they froze millions of euros in bank accounts, as well as property and luxury vehicles linked to Egyptian-born businessman Hussein Salem, who appeared in court on Friday in Madrid to face corruption charges.
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman told European Union counterpart Catherine Ashton on Friday a unilateral declaration of statehood by the Palestinian Authority would nullify the Oslo Accords.
Tens of thousands emerged from Friday afternoon Muslim prayers to participate in rallies against the regime of President Bashar Assad Friday despite the harsh military crackdown in Syria, Reuters reports.
Egyptian prisoners in Israel have sent a letter to Egypt’s Foreign Minister, Nabil Al-Arabi, asking that he make a prisoner exchange deal with Israel, under which they will be released in exchange for Ilan Grapel, the Israeli who was arrested in Egypt on spying charges earlier this week.