Monthly Archives: November 2014

Abbas’s PA and Fatah Celebrate ‘Heroic’ Jerusalem Attack

By | 2014-11-23T10:53:20+00:00 November 23rd, 2014|News|

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's adviser and members of his Fatah faction have come out and directly praised the terrorist attack in Jerusalem on Tuesday in which five Israelis were murdered in a synagogue, after Abbas's office made a perfunctory condemnation of the attack.   Abbas's adviser Sultan Abu Al-Einen, who praised another terrorist

PA Clarifies: ‘Abbas is Inciting for Religious War’

By | 2014-11-23T10:24:05+00:00 November 23rd, 2014|News|

Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet) head Yoram Cohen may have claimed Tuesday after the Har Nof attack that Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas "isn't inciting terrorism" - but that appraisal is completely wrong according to Abbas's own adviser.   Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) revealed on Tuesday that PA Supreme Sharia (Islamic law)

CIA Blunder? Kurdish Leader Says ISIS Has ‘200,000 Fighters’

By | 2014-11-23T09:31:43+00:00 November 23rd, 2014|News|

The CIA and other intelligence services have estimated the fighting strength of Islamic State (ISIS) to be no more than 31,500 terrorists - but according to a senior Kurdish officer, that number is actually at least 200,000.   Fuad Hussein, the chief of staff of Iraqi Kurdish Region President Massoud Barzani, told the Britain's The

Hamas Leader: We Plan to Carry Out Terror from Judea and Samaria

By | 2014-11-22T21:29:43+00:00 November 22nd, 2014|News|

Senior Hamas leader Mahmoud Al-Zahar declared on Sunday that the terrorist movement is planning to develop its capabilities to carry out terror attacks against Israel from Judea and Samaria, and that it intends to continue to lead the Palestinian camp which advocates for armed struggle until Israel is destroyed.   Al-Zahar, who spoke in Gaza,

Iranian Cleric Threatens to ‘Raze Tel Aviv, Haifa to the Ground’

By | 2014-11-22T21:04:33+00:00 November 22nd, 2014|News|

A leading Iranian cleric has threatened to "raze Tel Aviv and Haifa to the ground" if Israel attacks the country over its nuclear program.   Speaking in a televised public sermon in the capital Tehran, Ayatollah Ali Movahedi-Kermani boasted that "the Sejjil ballistic missile can hit and raise to the ground any place in Israel,

Sinai Jihadists Claim Attack Which Killed 30 Soldiers

By | 2014-11-22T19:22:54+00:00 November 22nd, 2014|News|

Ansar Bayt Al-Maqdis, Egypt's deadliest terrorist group which has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (ISIS), claimed responsibility for a suicide attack last month that killed 30 soldiers, AFP reported on Saturday.   The group made the claim in a video posted on social media, according to the report.   Ansar Bayt Al-Maqdis has killed scores of

UAE Names Muslim Brotherhood a Terrorist Group

By | 2014-11-22T18:57:50+00:00 November 22nd, 2014|News|

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has formally designated the Muslim Brotherhood and local affiliates as terrorist groups, Reuters reported on Saturday, citing state news agency WAM.   The Gulf Arab state has also designated the Syrian based Al-Nusra Front and the Islamic State (ISIS),    whose fighters are battling Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, as terrorist organizations,

Muslims Discovered America

By | 2014-11-16T18:40:57+00:00 November 16th, 2014|News|

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday that the Americas were discovered by Muslims in the 12th century, nearly three centuries before Genoese explorer Christopher Columbus claimed the discovery in the name of Spain.   "Contacts between Latin America and Islam date back to the 12th century. Muslims discovered America    in 1178, not Christopher Columbus," the