1, On 22 January 2009, pursuant to article 12(3) of the Rome Statute, Ali Khashan acting as Minister of Justice of the Government of Palestine lodged a declaration accepting the exercise of jurisdiction by the International Criminal Court for “acts committed on the territory of Palestine since 1 July 2002.”1 2. In accordance with article … Continue reading »
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Party of Fraud: Hezbollah’s Criminal Enterprises
On March 19, 2012, Michael Braun, David Asher, and Matthew Levitt addressed a Policy Forum at The Washington Institute. Mr. Braun, a managing partner with Spectre Group International, is former assistant administrator and chief of operations at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Dr. Asher, a senior fellow at Center for a New American Security, specializes … Continue reading »
IDF Elite Unit Combats Hamas Smuggling Tunnels (Video)
Between March 9th and March 14th, terrorists from the Hamas ruled Gaza Strip fired hundreds of rockets at Israeli population centers. These rockets are smuggled into the Gaza Strip through a vast network of smuggling tunnels, often hidden under residential structures. The IDF Combat Engineering Corps’ elite unit ‘Yahalom’ (Diamond) detects and destroys these tunnels, … Continue reading »
Ahmadinejad Tells Germans Holocaust a Lie
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has surpassed previous acts of chutzpah and tells German television the Holocaust “was a colonialist plan that resulted from a lie” that Israel exploits to suppress Palestinian Authority Arabs. Speaking through an interpreter to Germany’s ZDF public television, Ahmadinejad asserted that Jews “never were rulers of this land. They made a … Continue reading »
American Public Favors Safe Havens in Syria
Half Approve US Providing Air Cover, But Not Troops Questionnaire with Findings (PDF) Two thirds of Americans approve of the idea of the Arab League and Turkey establishing safe havens inside Syria, to provide Syrians who are at risk of being attacked by government forces a place to retreat. Half (48%) approve of the US … Continue reading »
Dilemmas of a protracted conflict/Annexation is needed
Exactly.. Now were thinking here…It’s time to retake Gaza, and annex it all and deport all the troublemakers and terrorists with haste.. There is no need to wait for terrorist groups to build up their weapons supply and start firing long-range, accurate missiles on Israel. By Marc Israel Sellem/The Jerusalem Post The false sense of … Continue reading »
Muslim Antisemitism: What everyone needs to hear
Great read: :Muslim Antisemitism: What My Daughter’s Friend and Ambassador Gutman Need to Know by Richard Landes. One of my daughters recently wrote me about a friend who thought that “most of the Muslim antisemitism in Europe wasn’t based on their dislike of what is going on in Israel and not so much on religion.” … Continue reading »
Kim Jong-un’s first provocation—Why the U.S. should respond forcibly
In a less-than-shocking turn of events, North Korea has announced that it will launch a satellite into orbit next month. This launch, as with the last satellite launch, will amount to a ballistic missile test; United Nations Security Council resolutions have banned such launches. Better yet, Pyongyang has said it will launch the missile southward—potentially … Continue reading »
Iranian general urges Afghanistan to fight U.S.
Mullah’s are starting to really push their luck… (AP) TEHRAN: A senior Iranian military commander urged Afghans on Saturday to use force to kick American troops out of their country, hinting that “new resistance groups” could launch attacks on U.S. interests in Afghanistan. Brigadier General Masoud Jazayeri, a senior figure in the powerful Revolutionary Guard … Continue reading »
Iran’s pervasive n persistent assaults on human rights
While the world is understandably focused on the threat posed by Tehran’s nuclear weaponization program, we cannot abandon the Iranian people. While the world is understandably preoccupied with the slaughter of innocents in Syria– and when addressing Iran, is concerned primarily with its nuclear threat — Iran’s massive domestic repression has been passing quietly under the … Continue reading »
Islamic Jihad: Proud to be murdering sub-human terrorists
When Israel finally has to go back into Gaza, Please do not stop until all the terrorist gangs in the enclave from the top leadership on down to the launchers to the drivers to the stone throwers. (Yes, the stone throwers..When a group of Arab punks all throw jagged rockets the size of baseball’s and … Continue reading »
Will Hezbollah Attack Israel? Only if…
In the middle of a region experiencing unprecedented change, a question lingers: Will Israel attack Iran? As a result, a flurry of writings have appeared attempting to answer this pertinent question. A “yes” comes with a list of consequences of which the most troubling is the threat of an escalating regional conflict. In the middle … Continue reading »
The partition of Syria?
Since as far back as June 2011, some have speculated that the embattled Syrian regime is trying to cement control over a neat enclave along the country’s coastline, extending westwards from the outskirts of Aleppo to Homs to the sea. The area is the Alawite heartland, the sect to which the Assads belong and from … Continue reading »
A mass murderer lectures about Israeli apartheid in South Africa
From the Muslim Judicial Council of South Africa, last week: The Muslim Judicial Council on Wednesday received Palestinian exchange prisoner, Dr. Abdul Aziz Umar. Dr. Abdul Aziz is a true symbol of hope as he in many ways represents the attitude and strength of the Palestinian people in their continuous struggle for freedom against the … Continue reading »
Iran cut off from global financial system
BRUSSELS (AP) — Iran was largely cut off from global commerce on Thursday, when the company that handles financial transactions said it was severing ties with many Iranian banks — part of an international effort to discourage Tehran from developing nuclear weapons. The action is meant to enforce European Unionsanctions, as global financial transactions are … Continue reading »
Syria and Assad’s emails
Bashar al-Assad took advice from Iran on how to handle the uprising against his rule, according to a cache of what appear to be several thousand emails received and sent by the Syrian leader and his wife. The Syrian leader was also briefed in detail about the presence of western journalists in the Baba Amr … Continue reading »
