Arutz Sheva analyst Mark Langfan has warned that US Secretary of State John Kerry’s “security arrangement” proposals for Israel are an updated version of the 1967 “Allon Plan,” and place the country in strategic danger. Continue reading
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Islamic Movement: All Negev Lands Belong to Islam
Leaders of the extremist IslamicMovement in Israel have claimed that Muslim MKs and other communal leaders took part in Saturday’s “Day of Rage” against the Prawer plan, which resettles Bedouin squatters to legalterritories in the Negev. Continue reading
Nobel Laureate: Bible is Key to Jewish Genius
After two Israeli professors living in the US won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry this year, it begs the question: Why have Jews been so successful in this realm, despite their proportionately small population? Continue reading
Jewish activists want to pray on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, raising alarm in Muslim world
A small but growing movement by Jewish activists demanding the right to pray at the site of their destroyed temple, in the heart of this disputed capital’s Old City, is creating a potentially explosive clash with the Muslim world, which considers the spot holy and bans Jews from public worship there. Continue reading
Turkey’s Erdogan Battles Country’s Most Powerful Religious Movement
Both were religious men. In the early 1970s, Cemal Usak and Recep Tayyip Erdogan were classmates at the Istanbul Imam Hatip Lisesi, an Islamic high school. By the end of the decade, their career paths had begun, ever so slightly, to diverge. “I was coming from what you would call a tradition of cultural Islam,” says Usak. “He opted for political Islam”. Still, he says, the pair remained close. Continue reading
Erdogan’s problems with his neighbors
Two days after Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan described the situation in Egypt as a “humanitarian drama” and dismissed the legitimacy of the trial of deposed leader Mohamed Morsi on charges of inciting murder of his political opponents, the Egyptian government announced its decision to expel Turkish Ambassador Huseyin Avni Botsali and cut off ambassadorial relations indefinitely. Continue reading
Weekly Interviews – November 30, 2013
Some refreshing, politically incorrect clarity from Tony Blair on Islamic extremism
In a world where politicians and potentates clog the media with pre-packaged sound bites, yammer with a staccato of political chatter, or drone on with endless explanations of subjects even they forgot, it’s heartening to see a former British Prime Minister act the role of statesman and sage. Continue reading
UN rings in ‘The Year Of Palestine’ by passing six resolutions condemning Israel
The UN General Assembly passed six more resolutions concerning Israel on Monday, including one that called for Israel to return the Golan Heights to Syria. Continue reading
Pope-Putin Visit: Is church détente in the works?
President Vladimir Putin’s Nov. 25 meeting with Pope Francis was the third to the Holy See by a Russian leader since the two sides established full diplomatic relations in 2009. Continue reading