Diplomacy
Hamas Suffering Financial Crisis
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010Hamas is suffering a financial crisis due to the three-year-old international ban on transferring funds to the terrorist authority. Successful lawsuits obligating Hamas to pay out millions of dollars in compensation for terror victims have compounded its financial problems.
One sign of the severity of the crisis was the recent Hamas robbery of an Arab bank, [...]
Obama challenged by Goldstone over Bias Claims
Sunday, April 4th, 2010Jurist Richard Goldstone, whose report to the United Nations accused Israel of war crimes, challenged United States President Barack Obama on Thursday over charges of bias. Obama’s administration expressed concern that the report was both biased against Israel and flawed.
// “I have yet to hear from the Obama administration what the flaws in the report [...]
Hadas Shalit starts with Army Service while Brother Remains Captive
Friday, April 2nd, 2010Hadas Shalit will begin her army service Wednesday as her brother, Gilad, remains three years in captivity by Hamas terrorists. Hadas, 19, will serve as a Soldier’s Welfare NCO. She spent the previous year in national service in Jerusalem. Hadas said that her brother’s captivity didn’t affect her decision to enlist.
// As Hadas begns her army service, [...]
Women in Business Conference 2010 announces two more inspiring speakers
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010The latest two speakers to be announced are Mrs Susan Lansing, Corporate Development Director at the Qatar Finance and Business Academy (QFBA) and Dr Asyah Al-Bualy, Advisor for Culture and Humanities, Research Council.
Susan Lansing has more than 17 years of experience on four different continents in the areas of business development, public relations and executive [...]
Well, at least they had a seder | The Daily Caller – Breaking News …
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010After the recent period of cool treatment of Israel by the Obama administration, the New York Times reported that there will be a Seder in the White House this year to commemorate Passover. One wonders if the well-timed and prominently placed piece is supposed to cause American Jews to forget the substantive activity of the [...]
UK arms sold to Israel used during so-called Operation Cast Lead
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010In London, a Parliamentary report says British arms exports were almost certainly used in the Israeli attack on Gaza last year, despite a UK policy that bans Israel from using these weapons in the occupied territories. From London, Naomi Fowler reports.
The government has admitted exported weapons from the UK were very likely used in [...]
Jewish Passover Prayer-Next Year in Jerusalem
Saturday, March 27th, 2010Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad Saturday night copied a 2,000-year-old Jewish prayer and told Christians in Bethlehem, “Next year, Inshallah (G-d willing), we will celebrate in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in east Jerusalem, the capital of the Palestinian state…according to 1967 borders, a state whose capital shall be Jerusalem.”
// The city is [...]
Arabic School in America
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010New York’s first Arabic language school, Khalil Gibran International Academy, open to all ethnic backgrounds, is grooming students to become ambassadors of hope and peace Khalil Gibran, Lebanon-born and America-raised literary giant, called for the adoption of Arabic and the application of the language at all school levels in his homeland (then part of Greater [...]
British MPs call for change in weapons export policy to Israel
Monday, March 22nd, 2010British MPs say they will call for a change in policy in weapon sales to Israel following a government announcement that the state “almost certainly” used UK-made weaponry in Operation Cast Lead in Gaza, the Guardian reported Monday.
“It is regrettable that arms exports to Israel were almost certainly used in Operation Cast Lead,” the [...]
Tom Campbell letter stokes controversy over ties to jihadist
Monday, March 22nd, 2010WASHINGTON — Republican U.S. Senate candidate Tom Campbell is facing a potentially crippling controversy over his past defense of a fired Florida professor with ties to terrorists and his inconsistent statements regarding what he knew and when about the man’s actions.
Dogged for weeks by criticism over his defense of Sami Al-Arian, who later pleaded guilty [...]