Iran Barack Hussein Obama (2009 – 2017) Kerry Confronts Concerns of Arab States After Iran Nuclear Deal Manama, Bahrain ― A year after he struck the outlines of a nuclear deal with Iran, Secretary of State John Kerry finds himself confronting a new challenge from Tehran: While it is observing the nuclear agreement to the […]
Rare Second Temple-period implements unearthed on Sea of Galilee shores The excavation of a 2,000-year-old Jewish settlement and synagogue from the Second Temple period in Magdala, located on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee, recently revealed rare and well-preserved antiquities, including a bronze incense shovel and jug. Indeed, incense shovels frequently appear in […]
April 18, 2016 Islamic Murder, Mayhem, and Mutilation Hamas Tel Aviv ― Israel’s military said it discovered a tunnel built by Hamas from the Gaza Strip in Israel for the first time since 2014, when Israel launched an operation to destroy the Islamist movement’s underground network. Soldiers discovered the tunnel recently and destroyed it it […]
Murder Bomb Explodes on Jerusalem Bus Injuring 21, Most Riding Alongside Tel Aviv ― A bomb exploded in the back of a bus and injured 21 people as it traveled through southeast Jerusalem on Monday, Israeli police said. The attack comes amid one of the worst periods of violence in Israel in decades. PALESTINIANS HAVE […]
April 25, 2016 Islam Says No to Jewish Homeland and State of Israel Earlier this month, Harvard law student Husam El-Qoulaq posed a question at a public conference to Tzipi Livni, the former Israeli foreign minister. “How is it that you are so smelly?” Mr. El-Qoulaq wanted to know. “It’s regarding your odor―about the odor […]
Yasir Arafat/ Hamas President Bill Clinton (1993 – 2001) BILL CLINTON: ‘I KILLED MYSELF TRYING TO GIVE THE PALESTINIANS A STATE’ Former US president Bill Clinton came to his wife’s defense on May 13 when the focus of a campaign event for Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton shifted to Israel. During a speech discussing his wife’s […]
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat turned down President Bill Clinton’s offer of an independent Palestinian state with its capital in East Jerusalem and an opening offer of $23 billion in aid. Arafat’s renewal of terrorist violence only reinforced this point. Source: Rubin, Barry, “Hamastan,” The Wall Street Journal, June 15, 2007.
Egyptian writer Abd al-Tawab Mustafa writes in his book dedicated to refuting the “Jewish lie about the Temple”: “We came to realize that the Jews’ belief in the Temple is no more than a false allegation that does not hold up in the face of scientific criticism, since the Jews’ supposed scholarship on the topic […]
July 2000 The Temple Mount Most Israelis were first exposed to the Palestinian denial of history in July 2000. According to U.S. negotiator Dennis Ross, when Jerusalem was discussed during the second Camp David summit, Palestinian Authority leader Yasir Arafat asserted that “the Temple never existed in Jerusalem, but rather in Nablus.” Another senior Palestinian […]
Palestinian attacks escalate, triggering the second intifada. Source: Newsweek, January 16, 2006.