BY ELAD BENARI, ARUTZ 7— Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas said on Sunday that the PA will not meet Israel’s demand that it recognize Israel as the Jewish State, Kol Yisrael radio reported. According to the report, Abbas explained this statement using the reasoning that once that the PA agrees to this requirement, there would…
BY MORAN AZULAY, YNET— Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Iran and Hezbollah of being behind Monday’s double terror attack on the Israeli embassies in India and Georgia. Earlier, an explosion hit an Israeli diplomatic car near the embassy in New Delhi, injuring the wife of a diplomat stationed with the Defense Ministry’s mission in India.…
No matter who you are or how you’ve lived your life to this point, God will receive you into His family. He will change you and make you complete. Trust Him, as these people and millions of others have done. “I am the LORD, the God of all mankind. Is anything too hard for me?”…
By AYAAN HIRSI ALI, NEWSWEEK— We hear so often about Muslims as victims of abuse in the West and combatants in the Arab Spring’s fight against tyranny. But, in fact, a wholly different kind of war is underway—an unrecognized battle costing thousands of lives. Christians are being killed in the Islamic world because of their religion. It is…
BY BRET STEPHENS, WSJ— Can Israel attack Iran? If it can, will it? If it will, when? If when, how? And what happens after that? On Sunday with Matt Lauer, President Obama said “I don’t think that Israel has made a decision on what they need to do.” That didn’t square with the view of…
BY KHALED ABU TOAMEH, STONEGATE— At a time when Arab heads of state are facing popular uprisings demanding reforms and democracy, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has secured himself yet another job: Prime Minister. Earlier this week, Palestinians were surprised to hear that Abbas had reached a deal with Hamas to form a unity government…
BY DEBKAFILE— As the US and Israel carried on bickering over the right time to strike Iran’s nuclear sites, their war preparations continued apace. debkafile’s military sources report that flight after flight of US warplanes and transports were to be seen this week cutting eastward through the skies of Sinai on their way to Gulf…
BY Y.MANSHAROF & A. SAVYON, MEMRI— As the reciprocal war of words between the Western and Iranian media escalated, and in response to Israeli declarations regarding the necessity of stopping Iran’s nuclear program with a military strike, Alireza Forghani, a staunch supporter of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and, until recently, governor of Kish Province,…
By RICHARD COHEN, WPost— There are three red lines when it comes to Iran’s nuclear program. The first is the moment when Iran tunnels so deeply underground that Israeli bombs will be incapable of doing real damage. The second is when the tunneling goes even deeper, and the United States’ “bunker buster” bombs will be…
BY EARL COX— The term, ‟Jihad” in Arabic means ‟holy war.” To me, it’s quite a stretch to think of war as ‟holy.” Wouldn’t you consider peace to be a lot more ‟holy?” Shouldn’t the Muslims be promoting ‟holy peace” instead of ‟holy war?” ‟Jihad,” to my understanding, is an important doctrinal concept to Muslims.…