Western news coverage tends to depict Israel as the chief advocate for a hard line against the Iranian nuclear program.
But the concerns of the Gulf states, in particular Saudi Arabia, are of equal or greater urgency. Continue reading
Category Archives: News Articles
New Council to Spread Hebrew in North America
The World Zionist Organization (WZO) has announced a new initiative, The Hebrew Language Council (HLC) of North America, to advance the Hebrew language and Israeli culture in North America. Continue reading
Are there really 100,000 new Christian martyrs every year?
It’s often claimed that 100,000 Christians are killed every year because of their religion. Earlier this year, the Vatican called it a credible number. But is it? Continue reading
Why France stood alone to scuttle Iran deal
In 1979, France promised Iraq it would build it a light-water nuclear reactor to be fueled with uranium enriched to 93 percent. Israel perceived the reactor, at Osirak, as an existential threat and tried to dissuade Paris from going ahead with the project. After several attempts at diplomacy were ignored, then-prime minister Menachem Begin ordered an airstrike that destroyed the facility, on June 7, 1981. Continue reading
Saudi nuclear weapons ‘on order’ from Pakistan
Saudi Arabia has invested in Pakistani nuclear weapons projects, and believes it could obtain atomic bombs at will, a variety of sources have told BBC Newsnight. Continue reading
‘National governments declining in importance’
As more key powers are transferred to Brussels, it poses an existential question for central governments. Continue reading
Why Vladimir rules and Obama bombs
On both the NSA saga and the Syrian crisis, Putin played chess while Obama played checkers with himself – and lost. Continue reading
Mix of radical ideas and idealism drives Europeans to join global jihad
One way to curb the existing threat from the European jihadist fighters is to monitor them upon their return from warzones, Gilles de Kerchove, European Union Counter-terrorism Coordinator told RT. Continue reading
Syria’s ‘black hole’ threatens known universe, or at least could bring wider war
Syria, like one of those mysterious black holes in space, is irrevocably sucking its neighbors and the major powers into an unknown vortex that could lead to regional war – or more. Continue reading
Ten Basic Points: Israel’s Rights to Judea and Samaria
1. Upon Israel’s taking control of the area in 1967, the 1907 Hague Rules on Land Warfare and the Fourth Geneva Convention (1949) were not considered applicable to the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) territory, as the Kingdom of Jordan, prior to 1967, was never the prior legal sovereign, and in any event has since renounced any claim to sovereign rights via-a-vis the territory. Continue reading