Two weeks ago, the Shin Bet, Israel's internal intelligence service, located the car of Ahmed Jaabari, the military leader of Hamas in Gaza. The Shin Bet officials warned the Chief of Staff, Benny Gantz, and the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. There was an opportunity of a few seconds to assassinate Jaabari. The head of aviation,
The International Civil Liberties Alliance (ICLA) is a human rights organisation that aims to uphold democracy, freedom and individual liberties. In its Mission Statement ICLA commits itself to campaign for the right to oppose sharia. There are many people who would argue that such a right is automatic in
Hizbullah's officials, the Shiite terrorist group based in Lebanon, were hosted in Rome by the Vatican during the recent ceremony for the election of six new cardinals. Among the new cardinals is the Lebanese Patriarch, Bechara Boutros Rai. As head of Lebanon’s Catholic Church, Rai recently sent his envoy, Father Abdo Abou Kassem,
SECULARIST Ibn Warraq explains that the reason he wrote Why I am not a Muslim, is “first and foremost an assertion of my right to criticize everything and anything in Islam-even to make errors, and to satirize. “Muslims and non-Muslims have the right to critically examine the sources, the history, and dogma of Islam.” Are
Seventy-five years ago, in November 1938, the Nazis rampaged through Nazi Germany, and parts of Austria, murdered 91 Jews, arrested another 30,000 Jews that were packed off to the gas chambers, and left streets covered in Jewish glass. It was called Kristallnacht, just a fancy way of saying it was a pogrom to murder Jews.
"There is no solution for the Palestinian question, except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors." Israel is like Guernica, the Basque town that in 1937 was the premature victim of the savage and merciless Nazi Blitzkrieg that was to sweep Europe. But there
Sderot, Ashkelon, Ashdod, Beersheba….All southern Israel cities are again under a heavy rocket war from Hamas-controlled Gaza. There are Israelis traumatized and injured, schools and houses destroyed, cities and towns terrorized. 15,000 Gazan rockets have fallen on Sderot and Ashkelon since Israel tragically uprooted Gush Katif in 2005. The sense of possible death has
Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal maintains a residence in Qatar, while the Taliban opened their first representation in a foreign country in its capital, Doha. A hateful wind emanating from the small Islamic emirate is now blowing toward Europe, a wind accompanied by an ocean of poisonous, oily, bloody money - all coming from the
“Sudanese Bin Laden-linked Islamist wants Obama win.” Here’s an AFP headline I could have written and it has yet to be ‘fixed’ to something more innocuous, like “Moderate Islamist hopes Obama second term will improve relations with the West.” Sudan’s veteran Islamist leader Hassan al-Turabi, linked to Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in the
Can America afford four more years of Barack Obama as President of the United States? In the most literal terms, probably not: his reckless deficit spending can’t be sustained indefinitely, and as he has campaigned on a platform of more free goodies for everyone, it won’t be much longer before the gravy train runs out.
