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Canada:Telling Jews ‘Get Out Or You’re Dead’ Isn’t A Hate Crime

By | 2014-02-05T01:41:32-04:00 February 5th, 2014|News|

In Canada, the Ontario Attorney General (AG) has decided that an anti-Israel activist who called for all Jews living in Israel, and particularly in Jerusalem, to either "get out or be shot" while at a large anti-Israel rally in Toronto did not commit a hate crime.   Last August, Elias Hazineh, the former President of

Iran: ‘We Won’t Leave Zionists with Air to Breathe’

By | 2014-02-05T01:09:17-04:00 February 5th, 2014|News|

Hossein Salami, commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, threatened US, the West, and Israel in a televised interview Saturday, according to Maariv.    "If the Islamic nation would unite, it could minimize the breathing room of the US and the West until the Zionist regime would no longer have room to breathe," the commander threatened

Iran: Holocaust was ‘tragically cruel’

By | 2014-02-03T18:36:53-04:00 February 3rd, 2014|News|

Iran has backtracked on its previous denial of the extermination of Jews during World War II as part of its efforts to normalize ties with the West since the coming of moderate President Hassan Rouhani to power last year.   Addressing an international security conference in Munich on Sunday, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif

Abbas will support 5-year Israeli withdrawal from West Bank

By | 2014-02-03T17:42:01-04:00 February 3rd, 2014|News|

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas would support a five-year Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank provided a NATO force is deployed to ensure security, the New York Times has reported.   Abbas, in an interview published by the paper on Sunday, shifted from his insistence on a three-year time frame for Israel’s withdrawal from occupied territories

Iraqi forces kill Islamist militants in Anbar

By | 2014-02-03T17:32:03-04:00 February 3rd, 2014|News|

Iraqi troops and allied tribesmen killed 57 Islamist militants in Anbar province on Monday, the Defense Ministry said.   There was no independent verification of the toll among the militants who belong to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), a jihadist group also fighting in Syria.   The Defense Ministry statement said most

PA Reps Slam ‘Israeli’ Kerry Plan, Threaten Intifada

By | 2014-02-03T17:15:36-04:00 February 3rd, 2014|News|

The Palestinian Authority (PA) never rejected the option of violence against Israel, and will consider a return to terrorism if the current round of negotiations fails, senior Fatah member Jibril Rajoub has told Iranian media.   According to Maariv/nrg Rajoub, who is in Iran as a representative of Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, showed clear

Egyptian Court Upholds Ban on Muslim Brotherhood

By | 2014-02-03T16:56:20-04:00 February 3rd, 2014|News|

An appeals court for urgent matters in Egypt turned down Saturday a legal challenge by members of the Muslim Brotherhood against a verdict ordering the seizure of the group's funds by the interim government.   According to the Al Ahram newspaper, the court upheld the verdict, declaring that the Brotherhood's funds, assets and NGO would

Livni Receives Compliments from Saudi Official

By | 2014-02-03T04:42:11-04:00 February 3rd, 2014|News|

Justice Minister Tzipi Livni received compliments on Friday from none other than the former head of Saudi intelligence, the Walla! news website reports.   The incident took place at the international security conference in Munich, where Livni was taking part in a panel with the chief Palestinian Authority (PA) negotiator, Saeb Erekat. In the audience

Syrian Jihadists Claim Lebanon Bombing

By | 2014-02-02T21:22:07-04:00 February 2nd, 2014|News|

Al-Nusra Front in Lebanon, a group named after Al-Qaeda's jihadist Syrian affiliate, has claimed responsibility for Saturday’s suicide car bombing in a stronghold of the Hezbollah that has killed at least four people.   Al-Jazeera reported that the group said Saturday's attack, which targeted a petrol station in Hermel in eastern Lebanon, was a suicide

Iran Receives First Installment of Frozen Assets

By | 2014-02-02T20:37:59-04:00 February 2nd, 2014|News|

Iran has received the first installment of $4.2 billion in frozen assets as part of a nuclear deal with world powers, Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi told ISNA news agency Saturday, according to AFP.   Unblocking the funds under the landmark deal in which Iran agreed to roll back parts of its nuclear program and