Terrorism

A Turkish court acceded to the request of prosecutors and issued arrest warrants May 26 in the names of four leading Israelis for their alleged role in the 2010 Mavi Marmara episode. The demand for the arrests flies in the face of media reports and comments from Turkish leaders that...

Continue Reading >>

A day after Pope Francis touched the Palestinian side of Israel’s security fence, with his aides calling for all walls to be torn down, the pontiff paid a visit to the Victims of Acts of Terror Memorial on Mt. Herzl in Jerusalem. Francis deviated from his whirlwind itinerary to visit a...

Continue Reading >>

Far-Right parties celebrated a massive night of victories following sweeping gains in European Union elections. A mix of anti-immigration, anti-EU-integration, and neo-Nazi parties took seats away from the traditional centrist parties in France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark, Greece, Austria and elsewhere. Europe’s voters lurched towards the political fringes on...

Continue Reading >>

Israel’s leaders from President Shimon Peres on down roundly condemned the May 24 slaying of three people outside a Jewish museum in Brussels, Belgium, including an Israeli couple and a museum volunteer. President Peres called upon European leaders to take action against any form of anti-semitism and said, “We must act without hesitation...

Continue Reading >>

Egypt’s Coptic Christian community is expected to overwhelmingly back Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi in this month’s presidential election. Hailed as a savior for overthrowing an Islamist president, former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi can count on the vote of Egypt’s Coptic Christians who view him as a bulwark against fundamentalists. The Copts...

Continue Reading >>

As Iran’s economic situation is in temporary downturn and the country continues propping up the Assad regime in Syria, Tehran’s terrorist proxy Hezbollah is increasingly feeling the pinch, according to a report in the May 15 edition of The Daily Star Lebanon. The sources also pointed to the huge financial impact...

Continue Reading >>