Alan Philps On Monday, Kurdish forces recaptured the town of Kobani in northern Syria, having driven out the jihadists of ISIL after four months of fighting. This is a symbolic defeat for ISIL and has prompted speculation that this might mark the point when the all-conquering jihadists are rolled back. From a military point of … Continue reading
Is Iran Preparing for a Two-Front War Against Israel?
Jonathan S. Tobin | @tobincommentary The outbreak of violence along Israel’s northern border appeared to have died down by the end of the week. Hezbollah claimed a victory with a cross border shelling that left two Israeli soldiers dead. For the moment that appears to be enough for them and their Iranian paymasters as they contemplate … Continue reading
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By Ted Belman In August of last year, former Associated Press reporter Matti Friedman published an essay in Tablet titled “An Insider’s Guide to the Most Important Story on Earth”. In it he highlighted how, and why, news organizations get Israel so wrong. It caused quite a stir. On Jan 26 of this year, he delivered a speech at … Continue reading
Iran: A Real Threat
By Michael Curtis On January 16, 2015 President Barack Obama condoned a gross breach of diplomatic protocol. He allowed visiting British Prime Minister David Cameron to appeal directly to a number of U.S. Senators to reconsider their support for a bill imposing new tough sanctions on Iran. Cameron explained he was not instructing the senators … Continue reading
Chad air force bombs Boko Haram out of Nigeria border town
By HARUNA UMAR and LEKAN OYEKANMI MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Chad sent a warplane dropping bombs and ground troops to drive Islamic extremists from a Nigerian border town, leaving it strewn with the bodies of the Islamic extremists, witnesses said Friday. Thursday’s bombing marked the first such action by foreign troops on Nigerian soil to … Continue reading
Turkey vs. ISIS: The Islamic State, Then and Now
by Lloyd Billingsley In early 2015, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or simply “the Islamic State,” as news organizations now have it, has escalated its murders, massacres, persecutions and push for territory. The rise of ISIS has been rapid, but it should come as no surprise to Western leaders familiar with history. Barely … Continue reading
ISIS throw man off a building for homosexual affair, beat him to death when survives
Heather Saul ISIS allegedly threw a man charged with having an affair with another man off the top of a building and then beat him to death when he survived the fall, a human rights watchdog has claimed. The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) quoted a source as saying the man was killed … Continue reading
Indonesia: Women troll cleric who ‘banned’ selfies on Twitter
In a tweet srteam, the cleric issued a 17-point manifesto in which he outlined the reasons for condemning selfies. (Photo courtesy: Twitter) Al Arabiya News Friday, 30 January 2015 Never ask a woman not to take a selfie, especially if she is Indonesian it seems. Many Indonesian women declared a social media war on Felix … Continue reading
Syria: ‘adultress’ survives ISIS stoning
An illustrative, undated picture of a woman in a niqab led by Islamic State members to her stoning after being accused of infidelity (Photo credit: YouTube screenshot) BEIRUT, Lebanon — A Syrian woman stoned by the jihadist Islamic State group for alleged adultery and left for dead miraculously walked away from the brutal punishment, a … Continue reading
Gaza: 15,000 young complete Hamas terror training camps
Palestinian youth crawls under a barbed wire obstacle during a graduation ceremony for a training camp run by the Hamas movement on January 29, 2015 in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip. Photot credit: AFP/ SAID KHATIB) By Tamar Pileggi Thousands of recruits as young as 15 learned how to kidnap soldiers, use weapons, … Continue reading
Yazidi militia makes public request for Israel help
By JTA and Lazar Berman Yazidi fighters head to battle Islamic State militants, on the summit of Mount Sinjar, in Iraq, Sunday, Dec. 21, 2014. (Photo credit: AP/Dalton Bennett) Lazar Berman An official in a militia organized by Iraq’s Kurdish Yazidi minority has issued a public call for Israeli assistance. Lt. Col. Lukman Ibrahim, speaking … Continue reading
Saudi Arabia airman gets 35 years to life for raping boy in Las Vegas
Reuters A Saudi Air Force sergeant convicted in the rape of a 13-year-old boy at a Las Vegas casino hotel was sentenced on Wednesday to 35 years to life in prison for the crime, a court spokeswoman said. Mazen Alotaibi, 25, was found guilty in Las Vegas in 2013 of kidnapping, burglary, coercion, lewdness on … Continue reading
Obama IS Funding An Anti Bibi Campaign
by Matthew Vadum The Obama administration is using taxpayer dollars to fund a radical anti-Israel group that aims to drive Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from office in March parliamentary elections. And the U.S.-based group receiving the U.S. government money, OneVoice International, in turn is working with V15, an “independent grassroots movement” in Israel, according … Continue reading
It’s Time for US to Take the Fight to the Islamists
By Jack David A headline from last weekend screamed that the murder of an ISIS hostage from Japan, like the beheadings of Westerners carried out by the group last year, was “unforgiveable.” Two weeks earlier, political leaders around the world expressed their outrage at Islamist terrorists’ assassination of the staff of Charlie Hebdo magazine in … Continue reading
Why Netanyahu, The Churchill Of Our Time, Must Speak Before Congress
Steve Forbes It is fitting and proper–indeed essential for our very security–that Speaker John Boehner has extended an invitation to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu to address Congress on Iran and its efforts to develop nuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver them anywhere in the world. The invitation has bipartisan support because many … Continue reading
Depaul University Site of Fundraiser for Convicted Terrorist
Paul Miller On February 21, 1969 a bomb exploded in a crowded Jerusalem supermarket filled with “mostly women and children” doing their pre-Sabbath shopping, killing Hebrew University students Leon Kaner (21) and Edward Jaffe (22). This was followed four days later by a foiled attempt to blow up the British Consulate. Both incidents were perpetrated … Continue reading
