By Khaled Abu Toameh, Gatestone Institute Hamas and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s ruling Fatah faction are continuing to contest control of the Gaza Strip. However, the two rival parties are prepared to lay aside their differences and work together to foil US President Donald Trump’s plan for peace in the Middle East, the…
The two-state solution has been the subject of international debate for longer than most of us have been alive. Palestine, a sovereign nation for the Palestinians, is the answer, supporters claim, to Arab-Israeli hostilities that have long vexed the region and the world. Israel would shrink to its pre-1967 borders (at least), Jerusalem would be…
Printed with permission by The Telegraph, Raf Sanchez, Jerusalem | 27 DECEMBER 2016 • 1:30PM Israel’s defence minister has urged Jews to leave France and move to the Jewish state as the Israeli government continued to lash out at the international community in the wake of a UN resolution criticising its settlements in the occupied…
Maybe it would have been more accurate to say the world against America and Israel. It’s never been more the case in the United Nations. Until the recent UN vote condemning Israel for building settlements on the outskirts of Jerusalem, the United States has reliably used its veto power to strike down resolutions targeting Israel….
More claims of divine intervention are being reported in the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, with an operator of Israel’s Iron Dome missile-defense system saying he personally witnessed “the hand of God” diverting an incoming rocket out of harm’s way. Israel Today translated a report from a Hebrew-language news site, which noted the Iron Dome battery failed three times to intercept an incoming rocket headed toward Tel Aviv last…
Reprinted with permission fromThe Daily Caller (dailycaller.com) Multiple media outlets report that Hamas’s offensive tunnel network – now known to have been composed of over forty attack tunnels dug underneath Israel’s border with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip – was set to be activated during the Jewish High Holidays (September 24th) as a mass terror attack. The attack was meant to generate as many as…
Introduction: As we go to print with this issue of 21st Century WATCH, a national speech is being given by the president to outline a strategy to deal with the threat of ISIS. Despite constant intelligence warnings dating back at least a year and more, the administration declined to raise the issue publicly, and declined to take any action whatever until…
