Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday condemned as “catastrophic” the Israeli settlements in the occupied territories, which he said were killing hopes for a two-state solution to the Middle East conflict. He said he would seek an upgrade to the Palestinians’ U.N. status to recognize it as a sovereign country and cautioned that Israeli
Spanish political satire magazine El Jueves has published a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed on its cover, soon after violent protests rocked the Muslim world over a U.S. film and French caricatures deemed insulting to Islam. El Jueves’ latest edition, which hit Spanish newsstands on Wednesday, shows several Muslims in a police lineup under
France’s Socialist government vowed Thursday to do more to integrate the country’s Muslims but warned that it would not tolerate the country becoming a hotbed of Islamic radicalism. In a speech marking the inauguration of the Strasbourg Grand Mosque, the biggest Islamic place of worship ever built on French soil, Interior Minister Manuel Valls
More than two weeks after the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, which resulted in the death of four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador to Libya, FBI agents have still not been granted access to investigate the crime scene, sources said. "They've gotten as far as Tripoli now, but they've never gotten to
Barack Obama's address at the UN clearly had November 6 in mind and particularly the Republican attempt to challenge Obama's reputation on national security as a result of recent events in the Middle East. Obama defended free speech as a value enshrined in the U.S. Constitution, but also as a value that would serve
A new report says Iran is being hard hit by international sanctions, but the evidence indicates its nuclear development activities are galloping ahead. The report, leaked Thursday allegedly by Israel's Foreign Ministry indicates the Islamic Republic is being hard hit by international economic sanctions. Oil exports from Iran have declined by 50 percent over
Egypt's new president on Wednesday hit out at Israel over its veiled threats to attack Iran's nuclear facilities and the deadlock in the Middle East peace process, AFP reports. President Mohammed Morsi received a rousing ovation for his first speech to the 193-member UN General Assembly since becoming Egypt's first civilian, democratically elected leader
Protesters gathered outside the United Nations on Wednesday to demonstrate against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as he made his last speech as Iranian leader to the UN General Assembly. "Ahmadinejad, no, no, no!" the crowd of several thousand mostly Iranians chanted. Protesters also praised the US government for its plan to remove an Iranian
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday accused the West of nuclear "intimidation" in his final speech to the UN General Assembly which was boycotted by the United States and Isr.ael But the Iranian president generally steered clear of the more toxic remarks about Israel which have sparked mass walkouts at his previous seven appearances
Islamic supremacist journalist Mona Eltahawy was arrested today after assaulting a defender of freedom who caught her in the act of vandalizing one of AFDI’s pro-Israel ads in the New York Subway Stations. {youtube}qVw1XRT48iQ&feature=player_embedded{/youtube} This again proves the Islamic supremacists and the Leftist thugs are dedicated to shutting down free speech. Anti-Israel ads ran
