Soner Cagaptay, senior fellow and director of the Turkish Research Program at The Washington Institute, writes in an article that since 2002, when Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to power… Continue reading
Earlier this week, Tehran Province police chief Hossein Sajediniya reported the arrest of several young Iranians belonging to underground rap groups. He said that intelligence had made it possible for the public safety police to track down and capture the group members… Continue reading
A video recently circulated on YouTube, showing fragments from two speeches made by Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, has angered many Iranian web surfers this week. The video contains fragments from two speeches given by Nasrallah on… Continue reading
This week, Iranian top officials and media extensively reported on the Democratic Party’s defeat in the U.S. midterm elections, taking it as a reflection of President Obama’s weakness and the failure of his [Middle East] policy… Continue reading
Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu briefed his Cabinet Sunday on the U.S. 90-day settlement freeze proposal to entice Israel to renew limits on settlement construction and revive stalled peace talks with the Palestinians… Continue reading
If you’re a regular visitor to our website, you’ll probably know that we published an article on August 09, 2010 about an Iranian website promoting chastity and hijab by using posters, clothes and bags. We also showed you some posters which they use for their promotional activities, because it gives us a… Continue reading
On November 4, 2010 a new satellite TV channel called Filastin Al-Yawm broadcast its first trial programs. They included news read by a female newscaster wearing a headscarf (hijab) and various short propaganda movies with anti-Israel themes… Continue reading
On November 3 a festive ceremony was held in Nablus at which a street was named for Dalal al-Magribi, one of the Fatah terrorists who carried out the massacre on the Coastal Road in 1978 (which left 37 Israelis dead and 71 wounded). Since the attack, Dalal al-Magribi has become a kind of national heroine whose action was praised… Continue reading
Preparations continue for the so-called Freedom Fleet 2 flotilla. The Palestinian media reported that approximately 60 organizations were collecting donations to send a French ship to the flotilla. According to… Continue reading
Khaled Mashaal, head of Hamas’ political bureau, again proclaimed that “Palestine belongs to the Palestinians and there is no place in it for Israel.” He called on the Palestinian Authority not to rely on the United States because President Obama, especially after… Continue reading
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday commemorated the sixth anniversary of late leader Yasser Arafat’s death and asserted the Palestinians right to petition the United Nations Security Council to recognize a Palestinian state if Israel refuses to halt settlement… Continue reading
The statement was a response to President Barack Obama’s remarks in Indonesia when he was asked whether “Israel’s advanced planning for more than a thousand new homes in Jerusalem” undermines… Continue reading
So today, 20 years later, you and most of the Western World don’t remember that event. But the Arabs of Yemen (who were expelled) and the Saudis (who expelled them) certainly do remember… Continue reading
In een lang afscheidsinterview met de Jerusalem Post laat Seaman, enigzins teleurgesteld, al zijn opgehoopte frustraties de loop over zijn werk en de verhoudingen tussen de Westerse media en Israël. Het is dus een openhartig interview geworden, maar het belangrijkste… Lees verder
In an unusual move, Payam-e Enghelab, a monthly published on behalf of the Supreme Leader’s representative in the Revolutionary Guards, strongly criticized President Ahmadinejad for his recent remarks about the status of the Majles… Continue reading
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast announced this week that Iran had repeatedly expressed willingness to resume negotiations with the West and had already clarified its position on the principles on which such negotiations should be based… Continue reading
Egyptian authorities refused to allow 17 activists from the Viva Palestina convoy to enter the Gaza Strip. Those denied entry included Viva Palestina leader George Galloway, several activists who had been aboard the Mavi Marmara, Muslim Brotherhood activists, and participants in the confrontation with… Continue reading
On Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010, IDF Chief of the General Staff, Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi, sent to every commander in the IDF a letter in which he expressed his personal thoughts on ethics with regards to several recent incidents that had occurred… Continue reading
Fathi Hamad, the Hamas administration’s interior minister, revealed that as many as 700 Hamas military-security operatives were killed during Operation Cast Lead. The number, consistent with Israel’s examination, is significantly higher than the biased numbers given in the past by Hamas… Continue reading
The Egyptian authorities, who recently permitted the Viva Palestina convoy to enter the Gaza Strip, continue supervising the crossing and imposing restrictions on the entrance of activists and convoys into the Gaza Strip… Continue reading
Speaking before the Al-Quds Institute in Damascus, Khaled Mashaal, head of the Hamas political bureau, said that “resistance [i.e., terrorism and violence] is the only way to liberate Jerusalem, return the refugees and establish the Palestinian state.” He also said that… Continue reading
At the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations in Washington on October 22, 2010, Andrew Whitely, outgoing director of the UNRWA office in New York, called on Palestinians to acknowledge the fact that the probability of their returning to “Palestine” was low. He said they would do better to… Continue reading
Op dinsdag 2 april 2002 werd de Geboortekerk in Bethlehem bezet door zwaar bewapende Palestijnse terroristen die probeerden te ontsnappen aan een actie van het Israëlische leger, Operation Defensive Shield, die erop gericht was om Palestijnse terroristen te arresteren in de omgeving van… Continue reading
There is a struggle for power in Lebanon of the greatest importance. Yet it is a battle that the West, for all practical purposes, has already ceded the country to the Iran-Syria bloc. Lebanon has a unique political system. It is what might be called a communal democracy… Continue reading
Senior Hamas figure Mahmoud al-Zahar was recently interviewed by several Arab and Western media. He used an opportunity to strongly attack Western values and the West’s lifestyle (particularly tolerance for homosexuality, secularism, gender equality and… Continue reading
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THE CLUELESSNESS OF CLAIMING THAT OBAMA'S MIDDLE EAST POLICIES WERE A FAILURE CANNOT BE FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH, WHAT THE...
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