Monthly Archives: July 2014

PA Claims US Plotting to Torpedo Middle East, ISIS is Jewish

By | 2014-07-17T20:56:26-04:00 July 17th, 2014|News|

The Middle East is falling apart, according to the Palestinian Authority (PA)'s official daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida - all because of an elaborate conspiracy on the part of the US to stoke conflict in Gaza, Iraq, Syria, and Libya.    "After the coffins of US soldiers returned from Afghanistan and Iraq, and before that, from Lebanon,

Assad sworn in for new seven-year term

By | 2014-07-17T16:40:08-04:00 July 17th, 2014|News|

Bashar al-Assad was sworn in on Wednesday as Syria’s president for a new seven-year term, in a red carpet ceremony in Damascus, after an election his opponents had slammed as a “farce.”   Assad swore by the Koran before the country’s parliamentarians in an extraordinary session, 40 months into a conflict estimated to have killed

After Another Rocket Salvo, Hamas Agrees to UN Ceasefire

By | 2014-07-17T11:32:02-04:00 July 17th, 2014|News|

Hamas agreed on Wednesday night to a temporary humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, but not before firing another salvo of rockets towards Israel.   "The group agrees to a ceasefire for five hours," starting from 10:00 a.m. local time Thursday, Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said in a statement quoted by the AFP news agency.  

Egypt sentences 7 to life for sexual assaults

By | 2014-07-17T02:21:29-04:00 July 17th, 2014|Women rights|

An Egyptian court has sentenced seven men to life in prison for sexual assaults on women during a number of public rallies in Cairo’s iconic Tahrir Square.   They are the first such heavy sentences against perpetrators of sexual violence following the government’s decision to toughen penalties.   Sexual violence has been on the rise

Radical Jordanian Cleric Says ISIS Caliphate is ‘Void’

By | 2014-07-17T01:25:51-04:00 July 17th, 2014|News|

Radical Islamic cleric Abu Qatada, who is being tried on terror charges in Jordan, on Tuesday denounced as "void" the declaration of a caliphate by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS).   "The announcement of a caliphate by the Islamic State is void and meaningless because it was not approved by jihadists

The Palestinian Arab Cause Gets Vicious in Boston

By | 2014-07-17T01:05:18-04:00 July 17th, 2014|Op-Eds|

Boston Transit ads blame Israel for Gazan children's deaths - in effect, blaming the IDF for Gazan's using children as human shields.   The war to destroy Israel has come to Boston, Massachusetts.  The Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA)—part of Greater Boston’s transit system-- has become a ground-zero in the propaganda war against Israel. Several