Arab states “will never recognize Israel”, the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) foreign minister stated on Monday, according to NRG/Maariv. Riyad al-Malki was speaking to Radio Palestine after participating in a weekend meeting in Paris between U.S. Secretary State of John Kerry and foreign ministers of the Arab League. In the interview, al-Malki said that
Israel will be gone in eight years, according to one Hamas official. Fathi Hamad, Hamas's Interior Minister, claimed in a speech honoring the anniversary of Operation Cast Lead that "Palestine" would replace the Jewish State by 2022. Hamad noted in his speech that the Palestinian Arabs, according to Islamic prophecies, will enter the
Members of Fatah, the party of Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, have reportedly raided Arab villages in "Area C", just north-west of Jerusalem, opening fire with automatic rifles. The clashes are reportedly part of internal power struggles within the party "Area C" refers to areas within Judea and Samaria which are under full
More than 98 percent of Egyptians voted “yes” for a new constitution in a referendum, authorities said on Saturday. The turnout was lower than some officials had predicted, with just over a third of the electorate taking part. Voters supported the constitution by 98.1 percent, said the head of the supreme election committee,
The Hamas terrorist organization is holding a string of events in Gaza to commemorate Operation Cast Lead, the counter-terror operation held December 2008 to January 2009. The terror group, which recently restated its genocidal threats against Israel, is celebrating its "victory" during the fighting, which ended in an uneasy cease fire. The operation, which
Iran will receive the first $550 million installment of a total of $4.2 billion in previously blocked overseas funds on or about February 1, a senior U.S. official told Reuters on Sunday. The money will be transferred to Iran as part of the implementation of the nuclear deal reached with it in Geneva on
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) official Hanan Ashrawi said on Saturday that Israel's demand that the PA recognize it as a Jewish state is an attempt to “legalize racism,” reports the Ma’an news agency. Ashrawi, a member of the PLO’s Executive Committee, said that defining Israel as a Jewish state would signify that any Jewish
Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas told a delegation on Saturday that there will be "no peace between us and Israel" without eastern Jerusalem as the capital of the future Palestinian state, the Ma’an news agency reported. Speaking to a delegation from Jerusalem in his office in Ramallah, Abbas highlighted that the Arab Follow-up
Hezbollah has dramatically improved its missile capabilities and can pinpoint targets anywhere in Israel, a senior commander in Iran's Revolutionary Guards threatened on Saturday, according to The Associated Press (AP). General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the head of the Guard's aerospace division, said that Israelis would see the armed group's increased strength should there be
Egyptian voters have overwhelmingly approved a new constitution in a referendum held over the past two days, an Interior Ministry official said on Wednesday, according to Reuters. "Turnout so far may exceed 55 percent and the approval of the constitution is perhaps more than 95 percent," Major General Abdel Fattah Othman, director of public
