The Palestinian Authority (PA) announced last week that it will give an extra $46 million a year to released terrorists. US taxpayer dollars will inevitably go towards funding the reward for terror, as US President Barack Obama has reportedly pledged the PA $440 million in 2014. PA Minister of Prisoners' Affairs Issa Karake made
The secular and libertarian magazine Causeur asks: “Is this the end of the bell towers of France?”. Until last week, the church bells of Boissettes, a town of five hundred inhabitants in the district of the Seine, were ringing every half hour. Then, the Administrative Court of Paris has stopped the bells, as an
The Palestinian Authority’s (PA) chief peace negotiator with Israel, Saeb Erekat, on Wednesday called on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to prepare the Israeli people for “tough concessions”. Speaking on Army Radio, Erekat once again blamed Israel for the lack of progress in peace talks, claiming that Israel was stubborn and refused to make any
Russia on Wednesday rejected U.S. President Barack Obama's criticism of its stance on Syria, a day after Obama criticized Moscow for threatening to veto a UN Security Council resolution that would impose sanctions against the Syrian government. On Tuesday, during a press conference with French President Francois Hollande, Obama slammed the Russians over their
In the speech Wednesday commemorating the 35th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani once again turned on the "charm offensive" against the US, insisting that Iran does not want to attack any country. In the same breath, however, Rouhani warned that Iran would issue a harsh response against any attackers -
A commander of a group loyal to al-Qaeda was arrested by the Lebanese army on Wednesday, according to an army statement. The commander, Najm Abbas, is of the Abdallah Azzam brigades, the jihadist group which claimed a twin suicide attack against the Iranian embassy in Beirut last November, killing 25 people. "After careful
Egyptian army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi headed to Russia accompanied by Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy on Wednesday to discuss bilateral cooperation, the army said. Field Marshal Sisi, who is also Egypt's defense minister and deputy prime minister, and Fahmy would hold "2+2" talks with their Russian counterparts, Colonel Ahmed Aly, the army spokesperson said
Diplomats in ivory towers have made this mistake before. Israel’s former defense minister, Ehud Barak, was the first to suggest leaving behind 100,000 Jews who currently live outside the main blocs in Judea and Samaria. Now the vision of abandoning those Jews to a death trap and the mercy of the Muslims is sponsored
A Muslim cleric was Tuesday charged in Australia with conducting an illegal marriage between a 26-year-old man and a 12-year-old girl. It follows the arrest of a Lebanese national -- the "husband" -- last week on child sex offences. Police said the imam, reportedly Pakistan-born, was arrested in Sydney on Monday afternoon by
Iranian state television ran a documentary showing simulated air attacks on Israel and the United States Friday, as revealed in an inflammatory clip uploaded to YouTube. The clip shows Iranian drones and missiles carrying out simulated strikes on the American aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, striking American military targets in the Persian Gulf and
