Monthly Archives: July 2012

Israel Will be Destroyed if it Attacks

By | 2012-07-02T11:34:34-04:00 July 2nd, 2012|News|

The Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Aerospace Unit, Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, threatened Israel on Sunday, saying it will be destroyed if it “ventures an attack” on Iran. His remarks were quoted by the Iranian IRNA news agency.   Speaking at a press conference in Tehran, Hajizadeh said that Iran was in

Egypt’s journalists fear the ‘Islamization’ of press

By | 2012-07-01T13:40:12-04:00 July 1st, 2012|News|

Egypt’s long list of unending crises since the Jan. 25 revolution appears to be unending as evidenced by the latest crisis between the upper house of parliament, known as the Shura Council, and the country’s journalists.   It began when the Islamist-dominated parliament decided to set certain regulations for choosing the editors-in-chief of state-run newspapers.

Iraqi women face court-ordered virginity tests

By | 2012-07-01T13:04:08-04:00 July 1st, 2012|Women rights|

Iraqi women face court-ordered virginity tests that often show they were virgins until marriage but shame them nonetheless, doctors at an institute that carries out the tests and a lawyer told AFP.   Remaining a virgin until marriage can be an issue of life or death for women in the Middle East, where those who

Clashes in southern Libya leaves 47 dead in three days

By | 2012-07-01T00:52:24-04:00 July 1st, 2012|News|

Renewed tribal clashes in the Libyan city of Kufra have claimed at least 47 lives and left more than 100 others wounded in three days, local leaders and a medic told AFP on Saturday.   “Thirty-two have been killed this week in the two Toubou residential areas,” a medic treating Toubou casualties in Kufra told

Former Prime Minister Yitzchak Shamir Passes Away

By | 2012-07-01T00:36:39-04:00 July 1st, 2012|News|

Yitzchak Shamir, Israel's seventh Prime Minister, has passed away at the age of 96. Born in 1915 in Belarus, Shamir passed away on Shabbat. His funeral is expected to take place on Monday.   Shamir was Prime Minister of Israel twice, in 1983-84 and 1986-92. He presided as head of the nation over numerous important