One of the things I love doing is showing Israel to visitors. It isn't just about missing work or stealing a day but about seeing, through their eyes, the wonder that I still see here, even after more than two decades. I'm used to questions like - aren't you afraid? Do you think there
The Palestinian Authority (PA) will join the International Criminal Court (ICC) on April 1, United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday night, according to The Associated Press. In a statement posted on the UN's treaty website and quoted by the news agency, the secretary-general said "the statute will enter into force for
France warned the Palestinian Authority (PA) on Tuesday against escalating a diplomatic battle with Israel after PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas said he would resubmit to the UN Security Council a resolution calling for the creation of a Palestinian state, Reuters reports. Abbas said on Sunday he hoped to resubmit the resolution, which was defeated
The United States military has made progress in its effort to identify moderate Syrian rebels to train for the fight against Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists and a U.S. training mission could begin this spring, the Pentagon said on Tuesday, according to Reuters. Rear Admiral John Kirby, the Pentagon press secretary, welcomed statements from Ankara
The new Christian anti-Semitism is meant to strip the State of Israel of its history and roots in the land. It has happened before, but to the Jewish people as a whole. The Presbyterian Church USA is considering banning the word “Israel” from its prayers. That anti-Semitic resolution was meant to “distinguish between the
has complained to the United Nations (UN) about several officials who, it claims, entered the country without visas in violation of its sovereignty. These include Republican Senator John McCain, former French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner and former U.S. diplomat Peter Galbraith, according to Reuters. Syria's UN ambassador, Bashar Ja'afari, called on UN Secretary-General
Islamist terrorists shot dead two Egyptian policemen guarding a Coptic church on Orthodox Christians' Christmas Eve, bringing the number of police killed Tuesday to three. The shooting took place in the central city of Minya, a provincial capital which lies some 135 miles south of Egypt's capital Cairo and is home to the country's
If gift wrapping and church going are Christmas traditions, carrying out massacres during other people's holiday celebrations is a Muslim tradition. Muslim Terrorism has become as much of a Christmas tradition for Christians in the West, as it already was for Christians in the Muslim world, where Somali Muslim gunmen attacked a Christmas party
The Palestinian Authority’s (PA) chief negotiator, Saeb Erekat, on Sunday said that the PA will not agree to maintain the status quo and threatened that the PA will dismantle itself and “hand the keys” back to Israel. Speaking to Army Radio, Erekat referred to Israel’s decision to withhold the tax money it collects on
Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas said on Sunday he was discussing with Jordan plans to resubmit to the United Nations Security Council a resolution calling for the establishment of a Palestinian state that failed to win enough votes last week, Reuters reports. Jordan remains a member of the Security Council, but several other
