Abbas bypasses EU, asks Russia help avert PA collapse over terror payments

The Palestinian Authority had hoped the EU would support its policy of providing merit-based payments to security prisoners. Khaled Abu Toameh, Tovah Lazaroff May 2, 2019 22:46 The Palestinian Authority has demanded that Russia resolve the terror-payment crisis that could lead to the PA’s collapse as it rejected a European Union compromise solution. “There have […]

Russia and Syrian army step up attacks on rebel held northwestern Syria – residents, medics

Published:  05.02.19 , 12:33 Russian and Syrian forces intensified air strikes and ground shelling in northwestern Syria overnight in one of the heaviest assaults on the last rebel bastion in recent months, opposition members, rescuers and residents said on Thursday.   The targeted villages and towns in northern Hama and southern Idlib fall within a […]

Iran: US supports ‘terrorist’ Israel

Iran says US in no position to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization when it supports Israel. Elad Benari, 02/05/19 Iran on Wednesday criticized a US plan to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization. “The US is not in position to (..) start naming others as terror organizations and we reject […]

Anti-Semitism, people are no longer ashamed to show it

Ynet reporters check in on the people impacted by some of 2018’s worst manifestations of anti-Semitism in Jewish communities around the world Itamar Eichner and Roi Rubinstein|Published:  05.02.19 In a week’s time, at the state ceremony marking the start of Israel’s Independence-day celebration, Rabbi Jeff Finkelstein, president of the Pittsburgh Jewish community, will light a […]

Israeli Air Force strikes Gaza in response to incendiary balloons, rockets

The strikes were in response to hundreds of incendiary balloons that Hamas launched at Israel on Wednesday. Hagay Hacohen May 2, 2019 09:51 An explosion is seen during Israeli air strikes in the southern Gaza Strip October 27, 2018.. (photo credit: IBRAHEEM ABU MUSTAFA / REUTERS) The Israeli Air Force carried out a series of […]

Israel observes 2 min silence in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day

On one of the most solemn days on Israel’s national calendar, much of the country shuts down on Thursday to honor the six million victims of the Nazi Holocaust with a series of memorial events and ceremonies. Traffic halts for a two-minutes of silence at 10 a.m. Wreaths are laid at the Yad Vashem memorial […]

Israeli Air Force strikes in Gaza Strip – report

Jerusalem Post Breaking News Israeli Air Force strikes in Gaza Strip – report By JERUSALEM POST STAFF May 2, 2019 03:37   Breaking news. (photo credit: JPOST STAFF) /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:”Table Normal”; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:””; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0cm; mso-para-margin-right:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:8.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0cm; line-height:107%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; “Calibri”,sans-serif; mso-ascii- mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi- mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} […]

Greenblatt: We must continue to stamp out anti-Semitism

US envoy visits Chabad of Poway following shooting attack, calls for anti-Semitism to be confronted. Ben Ariel, 02/05/19 Jason Greenblatt, the US Representative for International Negotiations, on Wednesday visited the Chabad of Poway near San Diego, where a gunman killed a woman and wounded three others last Shabbat. In a post on Twitter, Greenblatt wrote […]

Israel allegedly supplying Syrian Kurds with anti-aircraft missiles: Turkish media

2019-05-01 SDF fighters listen to a speech at a funeral for four of their colleagues killed near Azaz, December 3, 2017 (Photo by Jaish al-Thuwar) .td_uid_6_5cc9e9b03cbeb_rand.td-a-rec-img{text-align:left}.td_uid_6_5cc9e9b03cbeb_rand.td-a-rec-img img{margin:0 auto 0 0} BEIRUT, LEBANON (1:20 P.M.) – The United States and Israel are allegedly supplying the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) with anti-aircraft missiles, the Turkish publication […]

Sen. Ted Cruz: Russia Building Military Infrastructure in Venezuela

WASHINGTON, DC – Russia has emerged as socialist Venezuela’s top foreign weapons provider and overall defense ally, seeking to undermine the United States in its backyard, a prominent U.S. senator and an expert declared on Tuesday. Their comments came during an event sponsored by the Center for a Secure Free Society (SFS) as Venezuela’s U.S.-backed interim […]

UNSC to informally meet on West Bank settlements ahead of Trump plan

“Our position is very clear on the issue of Palestine, we want to make sure that resolution 2334 is faithfully implemented.” By Tovah Lazaroff May 2, 2019 02:15   The United Nations Security Council is set to hold an informal meeting on West Bank settlements on May 9, in advance of the anticipated rollout of […]

President: Iran to Bring US to Its Knees

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The US plot to push Iran’s oil exports down to zero will never be realized, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani underscored, saying the Iranian nation will “bring America to its knees.” April, 30, 2019 – 12:44 – Politics news – In a speech at a Tuesday event held in Tehran to commemorate Iranian workers, […]

Israel marks Holocaust Remembrance Day

Six Holocaust survivors to light torches in the state ceremony at Yad Vashem on Wednesday evening. by  i24NEWS and Israel Hayom Staff  Published on  2019-05-01 15:00 Last modified: 2019-05-01 16:53 Israelis stand for a two-minute siren in 2018 honoring the memory of the Jews who perished in the Holocaust | Photo: Oren Ben Hakoon Israel will begin […]

Report: Anti-Semitic attacks spike, killing highest number of Jews in decades

Tel Aviv University researchers say governments on 3 continents promoted anti-Semitism in 2018, single out officials in Venezuela, Turkey, Poland, Ukraine By AGENCIESToday, 2:15 pm  1 Illustrative: Members of the National Socialist Movement, one of the largest neo-Nazi groups in the US, hold a swastika burning after a rally on April 21, 2018, in Draketown, Georgia. (Spencer […]