How Jewish should Israel be? Why does the West recognize that democracy must be accommodated to Arabic culture world over, but not to Judaism in Israel? A thought provoking analysis based on Prof. Paul Eidelberg's "Jewish Statesmanship". PM Netanyahu has made it clearer than ever, that the PA must recognize “Israel as the national
Relations between the United States and Egypt are in deep-seated turmoil which could harm the entire Middle East, the Egyptian foreign minister said in remarks published on Wednesday. In an interview conducted by the state-owned daily newspaper al-Ahram, Nabil Fahmy said the extension of the period of instability in ties would “reflect negatively
A suicide bomber killed at least eight people including a provincial law minister after breaking into his home in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, officials said. Israr Ullah Gandapur, law minister for the restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, was meeting constituents in his home village of Kulachi when the bomber struck, provincial health minister Shaukat Yousafzai
Chechnya's President Ramzan Kadyrov announced last week the assassination of Rastom Saleef one of the most extremist Islamic fighters, by elite Chechen forces. Saleef, known by his fighting name, Abu Muslim al Shishani, belonged to an extremist Islamic movement that had called for the establishment of a "Caucasus Emirate" as the basis for the
A last minute cross-party agreement between Democrats and Republicans in the US Senate has ended a partial government shutdown. The agreement, forged just one day ahead of the deadline to raise the country's $16.7 trillion debt limit, extends the federal borrowing limit until February 2014, and funds the government until this coming January.
The Lebanese army claims to have thwarted another car bomb attack on a Hezbollah-dominated neighborhood in Beirut on Monday. Bomb disposal experts were summoned after a "suspicious" vehicle was seen in the Maamura area of the capital's southern suburbs. Upon closer inspection the vehicle turned out to be "rigged with explosives," according to
An American citizen who was arrested by Egyptian security forces in August in El Arish, in the Sinai Peninsula, has died in jail after apparently committing suicide. James Henry Lunn, a former US Army officer, was detained in the north of the restive Sinai Peninsula on 27th August. He was one of nine foreign
It is detrimental to your health to write or say anything against Islam. In Moscow they used to call it a purge. In Paris it is known as “incitement to hatred”. This is the charge against Ivan Rioufol, one of the most famous and respected columnists of the French newspaper Le Figaro, where
Brain implants? Mind-control? It may seem like the stuff of science fiction, but for at least one Egyptian celebrity it is the only reasonable explanation for comments made by a Muslim Brotherhood-linked preacher last July, following the ouster of President Mohammed Morsi by the Egyptian army. During a phone interview with Al Jazeera,
Syrian regime forces operating in the suburbs of the capital Damascus on Monday made a startling discovery: a "terror tunnel" along the lines of the one recently discovered by Israeli security forces along the perimeter with Hamas-controlled Gaza, leading all the way to neighboring Deraa. Rebel forces had apparently been using the tunnel
