Just the facts. In 1920, at San Remo, the Jewish People were recognized by the Principal Allied War Powers in WWI as owning the political rights to Palestine The competing Arab claims also submitted at the Paris Peace talks were implicitly denied in Palestine, but recognized in the rest of the Middle East,
Israel security forces have joined their Kenyan counterparts in the fight to rescue hostages captured by Islamist terrorists at a Nairobi mall. "The Israelis have just entered and they are rescuing the hostages and the injured," a security source said on condition he not be named. An Israeli foreign ministry spokesperson would neither
The Saudi religious police warned against singing and dancing in public places on Monday as the kingdom marks its 83rd National Day, according to DPA. Turki al-Shalil, a spokesman for the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice religious police, said in a press statement on Monday that violators will face
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that any foreign military intervention against Syria would be a form of “aggression” that would hit the entire region and breach international law. Putin told a summit of an ex-Soviet security group that he was grateful for its decision to support Moscow's refusal to sanction strikes against
What might be expected in monitoring Syria. Introduction: Weapons experts point to the successes of the West in both Iraq and Libya in destroying large weapons arsenals. Yet there are certain problems that weapons inspectors have had to deal with over the years that are common to all attempts to deal with control
At least 60 people were killed at a funeral in the mainly Shiite Muslim Sadr City district of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, on the weekend. The BBC reported that a tent where mourners were gathered was hit by two explosions, one of them a suicide car bomb. A third explosion followed as police,
As Kenyan security forces continue to battle Somalian Al Qaeda-linked terrorists, more stories have emerged, shedding light on the horrific events of the assault on the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, which have killed at least 62 people and left more than 170 wounded. Gunmen - and, it is emerging, at least one
An Egyptian court has outlawed the Muslim Brotherhood, in a Monday ruling banning "all activities" by the group in Egypt and its assets. The court had been asked to review the Brotherhood's application for non-governmental status back in March, and returned its verdict this afternoon. The move is the latest in a
Two narratives are at war on the same, slim and holy piece of land. Forget about coexistence. Israel’s problems stem from a guilt complex. The Jewish people are, I believe, the chosen people, but are subjected to brainwashing by a small group of guilt-ridden personalities, including most of the politicians and almost all of
Here are 10 things to know about al-Shabaab, the Somali Islamist extremist group that has claimed responsibility for the attack on Kenya’s premier shopping mall that killed dozens of civilians. What is al-Shabaab? Al-Shabaab is an extremist Islamic terrorist force that grew out of the anarchy that crippled Somalia after warlords ousted
