The Palestinian Authority’s representative at the United Nations said on Thursday that the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) can immediately start examining allegations of war crimes against Israel if she chooses, according to The Associated Press (AP). The envoy, Riyad Mansour, told a group of reporters that the PA’s formal acceptance of
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi delivered a highly unusual and surprising speech to Islamic clerics at Cairo's Al-Azhar University last week, and a translated version has been uploaded to the internet. “It’s inconceivable that the thinking that we hold most sacred should cause the entire umma (multinational community of Muslim believers) to be a
The only way to put an end to terror in Sinai, according to Egyptian official Abdel Fattah Harhour, is to completely raze the Egyptian side of Rafiach. In an interview Thursday, he said that weather conditions in recent days had slowed the rate of evacuation, but that the government must redouble its efforts to
The Palestinian Authority’s chief negotiator, Saeb Erekat, on Wednesday compared Israel’s construction of homes in Judea and Samaria to the actions of the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group. "There is no difference between the terrorism practiced by the group led by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and Israel's terrorism," Erekat said, according to the Ma’an news
Arab League is to meet January 15 to discuss the failed Palestinian Authority (PA) draft resolution at the United Nations Security Council, an official told AFP Wednesday. On December 30, the UN Security Council rejected a draft resolution that would have forced Israel to withdraw from Jewish areas of Judea and Samaria in order
the end of last month, the Egyptian courts of Alexandria delivered a verdict to ban annual visits to the historic mausoleum of Moroccan Rabbi Yacoub Abu Hasira in the nearby village of Demto. After thirteen years in the court system, the Administrative Court of Alexandria issued a definitive verdict to abolish the annual celebrations of
Muslim slaughter of fellow-Muslims and "infidels" reached new modern heights in 2014. Though car bombings still likely have the lead in worldwide attacks, the number of suicide murderers – virtually all them Muslims, and mostly from Sunni Salafist jihadi organizations affiliated with global jihad – appears to be the next-most lethal weapon. The Tel
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu released a statement offering condolences to Paris on Wednesday night, after Islamists launched a horrific shooting rampage at the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine office which killed 12 people. "On behalf of the citizens of Israel, I offer condolences to the President of France, the bereaved families and the French
12 people have been killed in a shooting attack at the offices of French satirical news magazine Charlie Hebdo in central Paris. Two of the dead are reportedly police and ten are journalists; some reports say two of the journalists are the paper's cartoonists. Ten people are reported injured, five of them critically.
Immediately after the shooting attack on the Paris offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, French Prime Minister Francois Hollande arrived on scene and defined the shooting as a terrorist attack. Hollande noted 11 people were killed by the gunmen who fled the scene after opening fire with Kalashnikov assault rifles and following a
