Monthly Archives: February 2009

FBI Cuts Ties With Pro-Saudi Muslim Lobby

The Middle East Newsline has confirmed that the U.S. law enforcement community has severed relations with a leading Saudi-financed lobbying group. The FBI has cut ties with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), regarded as...

Egypt Fails To Reduce Hamas Arms Flow

Israel’s intelligence community has determined that Egypt, despite numerous operations in 2008, failed to reduce the weapons flow to the Hamas regime in Gaza. The Israel Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center (http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/site/home/default.asp ) reports that...

Grad Rocket Fired On Ashkelon

While talks concerning some kind of truce in Gaza Strip continue, residents of southern
Israel received another reminder this morning that the threat of rocket fire looming over them remained very real. At around 7:10 a.m....

Israeli Air Force Held Back By Day, Attacked By Night

Sunday morning in Israel is like Monday morning in the Western world. On Sunday, the workweek begins, as does the school week. Arab terrorists in Gaza also know that. It could, therefore, have been no coincidence...

Terror Threat High For Israelis

Rescue workers search through the rubble of the Buenos Aires Jewish Community Center on July 18, 1994. Israeli officials worry Hezbollah may seek to avenge the death of Imad Mughniyah, the bombing's mastermind, with...

Spat Between Turkish PM, Israeli President Revealed

Yesterday, the details of a major public spat between the president of Israel and the Turkish prime minister were revealed to the Israeli public. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan got up and left the...

Bid To Prevent TAU Appointment Of Israeli Expert In Military Law Fails

Tel Aviv University (TAU) plans to hire a senior Israeli army officer to lecture on international law despite an outcry from opponents of Israel’s recent Gaza incursion. Col. Pnina Sharvit-Baruch, head of the international law...