Germany permits Iran’s regime to build European network – report

“It is clear that Iran is expanding its network in Europe to this day and that Hamburg is still at the center of this network,” says the historian and Islam expert Christian Osthold. BENJAMIN WEINTHAL FEBRUARY 27, 2020 07:42 The Iranian regime-controlled Islamic Center in the northern city of Hamburg oversees a growing network in […]

US blacklists Hezbollah-affiliated companies

US adds host of Lebanese individuals and entities linked to Hezbollah-affiliated Martyrs Foundation to its terror blacklist. Elad Benari, 27/02/20 The United States on Wednesday added a host of Lebanese individuals and entities it said were linked to the Martyrs Foundation to its designated list of “global terrorists”, Reuters reports. US officials have previously targeted […]

US forces in Afghanistan strike ISIS during partial truce with Taliban

An Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle from the 332rd Air Expeditionary Wing takes off Feb. 13, 2020, at an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia. U.S. airstrikes Feb. 25, 2020, killed four Islamic State fighters in Afghanistan’s Kunar province, U.S. officials said. ALEXANDRIA BRUN/U.S. AIR FORCE By J.P. LAWRENCE | STARS AND STRIPES Published: February 25, […]

Syrian opposition fighters retake key town from government

BEIRUT (AP) — Turkey-backed Syrian opposition fighters on Thursday retook a key northwestern town in Syria that was recently captured by government forces, and cut the highway linking the capital, Damascus, with the northern city of Aleppo. The development comes days after the government reopened the road for traffic for the first time since 2012. […]

10 bouts in Gaza later, Israel not much closer to preventing the next round

The Strip remains a powder keg, with terror groups just waiting for another excuse — like Sunday’s bulldozer incident — to set it off By Judah Ari Gross Today, 1:09 am   Judah Ari Gross is The Times of Israel’s military correspondent.   Israel’s two-day battle with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group this week […]

UK condemns Israel for building houses but says NOTHING about Palestinian rockets against Israeli civilians

Feb 26, 2020News The UK government has condemned our closest ally in the Middle East whilst completely ignoring the terrorist attacks on Israeli citizens, in what is another shocking display of anti-Israel bias from the Foreign Office. The statement made against Israel came from MP James Cleverly, the government’s Minister for the Middle East and […]

Iran’s Incompetent Response to Coronavirus Threatens the Middle East and the World

Iran has responded to coronavirus in characteristically counterproductive fashion. The Iranian government has covered up an outbreak of coronavirus that now threatens the Middle East and has led to border closures and hospitalizations in five countries. Over the weekend of February 21, president Hassan Rouhani and other Iranian officials downplayed the growing crises as Iran’s […]

PA calls for EU boycott of Israeli goods

PA calls on the EU to boycott goods from Judea and Samaria, and recognize a ‘Palestinian’ state. Dalit Halevi, 26/02/20  PA Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh called on EU states to require international businesses in Judea and Samaria to cease operations. Shtayyeh said that the UN Human Rights Council had recently released a “blacklist” of “settler […]

Coronavirus Outbreak Could Lead to Cancellation of the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo

According to a senior member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), if the coronavirus outbreak doesn’t reverse, it is likely that the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo will be altogether cancelled, not delayed or postponed. Due to the rapidly increasing nature of the CoVid-19 (coronavirus) outbreak, a senior official from the International Olympic Committee, Dick […]

UN slams ‘worrying’ Israeli plans to build in West Bank, East Jerusalem

Peace envoy Nickolay Mladenov says moves promoted by Netanyahu endanger prospects for two-state solution The United Nations Middle East peace envoy condemned Israel’s recent advancement of construction plans in the West Bank and East Jerusalem that he said would effectively cut the West Bank in two and isolate some Palestinian neighborhoods. The statement from Nickolay […]

World powers express ‘serious concerns’ about Iran’s atom program

Meeting of remaining signatories to 2015 nuclear deal in Vienna look to keep accord alive, despite US withdrawal, sanctions and Iranian violations Philipp JenneDavid RisingToday, 10:20 pm VIENNA (AP) — The world powers that remain party to the nuclear deal with Iran expressed “serious concerns” Wednesday about Tehran’s violations of the pact, while acknowledging that […]

Hezbollah could use Likud app to harm Israeli security: Ex-Mossad chief

“Everyone who has an Israeli SIM card can download the app. This means that our friends from Hezbollah can also do it, as well as IRGC operatives and Hamas operatives in Nablus and Gaza.” TZVI JOFFRE FEBRUARY 26, 2020 14:09 Former Mossad chief Tamir Pardo warned that the Elector app used by the Likud Party […]

Israel slams Sanders for hint at returning embassy to Tel Aviv

FM Katz condemns ‘horrifying comment’ by presidential candidate during Democratic debate in which the Jewish Vermont senator also called Netanyahu a ‘reactionary racist’; there’s not a Jew in the world who ‘hasn’t dreamed of Jerusalem,” minister says Associated PressPublished: Foreign Minister Israel Katz on Wednesday lashed out at Jewish presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders for what […]

Thoughts on how hatred of Israel feeds historic antisemitism

February 26, 2020by Seth Frantzman How hatred of Israel feeds historic antisemitism By SETH J. FRANTZMAN The usual refrain when discussing how hatred of Israel is often linked to antisemitism is that criticism of Israel is not antisemitism. That’s true, criticism of Israel and its policies is not antisemitism. But most of the hatred directed […]