In April Israel attacked military bases in Syria where Iranian weapons were kept. It was only the latest of many such attack. And as usual, there was no response from the Syrians. A Hamas columnist, and former adviser to Hamas leader Ismael Haniya, Yousuf Rizka, expressed his fury and frustration at this failure of the […]
Syrian Opposition Leader Wants To Normalize Relations With Israel
Fahad Almasri, the leader of the National Salvation Front — an opposition group in Syria — who has lived in France for 24 years, in mid-May spoke openly to The Media Line about relations with Israel in a post-Assad Syria. His story can be found here: “Though most Syrians oppose normalizing relations with Israel and […]
Muslim Terrorists Plotted Beach Attack in Israel
To stop an Islamic terror attack, you need some kind of control over the area. Once Israel surrendered control over the terrorist occupied territories, that became very difficult. This is one of those unusual incidents in which the perpetrators were based in Jerusalem. Indictments have been filed against three residents from east Jerusalem who planned […]
For The First Time, A Cyberattack Is Answered in Real Time With A Bombing Attack
While Hamas fired 690 rockets at Israeli civilians during the recent flare-up, Israel is careful to warn civilians away from its own targets. As Hamas always places its warehouses of weapons, including rockets, and its fighters, too, in the midst of civilian neighborhoods, and even in the same buildings as civilians (including schools and […]
Get Me Rewrite, Or, Who Killed The Palestinian Baby?
For many days we have read and heard from the world’s media that Israel was responsible for killing a Palestinian baby and a woman first identified as her pregnant mother. From the very beginning the Israelis categorically denied that they were responsible. Only a few media sources saw fit to include that denial in their […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Mahmoud Abbas: The PA Cupboard Is Bare, But I Won’t Compromise
The Palestinian Authority is now facing financial catastrophe. The Trump Administration’s ending of all US aid — hundreds of millions of dollars –to the PA, its ending of American contributions to UNRWA, and the Israeli government’s decision to cut transfers of taxes on imports it collects for the PA by the amount the PA […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: A Saudi Denounces “Obsessive Jew Hatred”; Allah Commanded Us To Love And Respect Jews
The website Memri.org is so full of disturbing news from the Arab and Muslim world — newspaper articles, mosque sermons, academic lectures, media appearances, book excerpts — that we come to expect the worst, and the worst is what we ordinarily get. Recently at the site, for example, Mahmoud Abbas could be seen defending his […]
Did a Palestinian father of four murder Jews because of his dysfunctional home life?
Yesterday, Nimer Mahmoud Ahmad Jamal, an Arab Palestinian father of four, left his kids at home and set off to murder some Jews and, he hoped, get killed while doing it. He succeeded at the entrance to Har Adar in both these personal goals, and he managed to give Palestinian Arabs two murdered Jews, a murdered […]
UN calls on Israel to renounce nuclear weapons
If Israel has nuclear weapons, it hasn’t used them. Nor will it use them unless attacked. Iranian officials, meanwhile, have repeatedly crowed that Israel will soon be destroyed, and has defied the UN repeatedly regarding its nuclear program. So naturally, the OIC-controlled UN condemns Israel. The UN should be shut down, or at least moved […]