Stuck in strategic stalemate, Hamas uses Gaza border protests to pressure Israel
Israel has come under harsh criticism in recent weeks over its response to Palestinian mass protests on its border with Gaza. Called the “March of Return,” the protests are expected to last the next...
Israeli security heads confer after Trump’s threat to bomb Syria
Top-level Israeli security officials met Wednesday to prepare for scenarios in which Israel is attacked by Iran or Syria, following a tweet by U.S. President Donald Trump declaring he would bomb Syria.
Iran, which has...
Syria to chair UN disarmament forum on chemical weapons; watchdog urges US-EU walk-out
Despite accusations that it perpetrated yet another deadly chemical weapons attack on Saturday, Syria will next month chair the United Nations disarmament forum that produced the treaty banning chemical weapons, sparking calls by an...
Egyptian journalist: ‘Scope of the Holocaust is just a rumor’
Egyptian journalist Dr. Hoda Zakariya, a lecturer on political sociology, said that while “there was some persecution of the Jews by Hitler,” the scope of the Holocaust is a “well-known historical rumor.”
Speaking on the...
Palestinian Authority falsifies concentration-camp photo as Arab victims of Jews
(April 11, 2018 / PMW)
Holocaust abuse: Palestinian Authority TV misrepresented a photo of concentration-camp victims as Arabs and wrote that Jews burned Arabs in ovens.
P.A. TV lie #1: P.A. TV distorted a photo of victims murdered in a...
Palestinians detonate bomb next to IDF bulldozer in Gaza
An Israeli military construction vehicle next to the security fence in northern Gaza was the target of an attempted bombing by Palestinians. No injuries or damage were reported.
Israel responded by striking Hamas terror targets...
Analysis: Latest Israeli airstrike in Syria likely stopped new Iranian threat
The recent missile strike on a military airbase deep in the central Syrian desert looks like the latest installment in a long-standing Israeli campaign to police its red lines against highly dangerous developments to...
AP misuse of photograph erroneously links Syrian gas-attack victims to Israel
According to an Associated Press headline on April 9, Israel is being blamed for a pre-dawn strike on a Syrian military base. The large photo that the wire service opted to use alongside that headline, though,...
Hamas sending civilians in Gaza to die for media coverage, says Abbas’s adviser
Mahmoud Abbas’ senior advisor has accused Hamas of intentionally sending Palestinians in Gaza to “go and die,” for the sole purpose that Hamas will have stories of dead Palestinians to tell the media.
Mahmoud Al-Habbash,...
Tunisia denies Israel entry to Taekwondo championships
Israel’s Taekwondo Junior National Team was essentially banned from participating in the 2018 World Junior Championships, as well as trials for the upcoming Youth Olympic Games to be held in Argentina in October, after...