From Saudi Envoy: Palestinians Must Stop Fighting Israel: Saudi diplomat Turki al-Faisal al-Saud on Saturday urged Palestinians to stop directing their weapons towards Israel. “Our Palestinian brothers have to stop fighting not just with each other,” al-Saud said at the Jordan-based World Economic Forum. “I would also call them to stop fighting Israel with military methods.”
Read More +From EU Aid to Continue to Bypass Palestinian Government: EU aid will bypass the Hamas-led Palestinian government until it recognizes Israel, renounces violence, and abides by interim peace deals, EU aid commissioner Louis Michel said Thursday. “As long as these criteria are not fulfilled, there will not be a change in the system, the manner, [or] the process of aid support from the European Union,” he said. Palestinians had hoped the formation of a unity government between Hamas and Fatah would prompt the EU and other major donors to lift a year-old economic embargo of the PA.
Read More +How a British Jihadi Saw the Light
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One ex-Jihadi is not enough. From How a British Jihadi Saw the Light: I had never expected to see such poverty in Saudi Arabia. Many African immigrants in Jeddah live in Karantina, a slum full of poverty, prostitution, and disease. Visiting Karantina, it dawned on me that many Muslims enjoyed a better lifestyle in non-Muslim Britain than they did in Muslim Saudi Arabia. All my talk of ummah seemed so juvenile now. It was only in the comfort of Britain that Islamists could come out with such radical utopian slogans as one government, one ever-expanding country, for one Muslim nation.
Read More +More Muslim hubris. From Lebanon to Seek War Reparations from Israel: Lebanon is preparing to go to an international tribunal to seek reparations from Israel for damage caused during last year’s war, the country’s finance minister Jihad Azour said on Monday. He said Lebanon’s Justice Ministry had commissioned international lawyers to prepare the case. Israel, supported by the U.S., says it acted in self-defense during the war.
Read More +From Rise in Arab Volunteers for National Service: Shlomit, an organization that arranges placements for Israeli national service volunteers, registered 213 young Arab volunteers between December and March, compared with 130 volunteers in all of 2006, according to data published Thursday. Approximately half of the new Arab volunteers are Muslims, including many Bedouin, and the other half are Christians, mostly from the western Galilee. According to Haya Shmuel, director of Shlomit, many local Arab leaders make a point of insuring that those volunteering for national service serve in their own communities.
Read More +Captured Britons Taken to Tehran
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From Captured Britons Taken to Tehran: Fifteen British sailors and marines seized Friday by Iranian naval forces have been taken to Tehran for questioning. British officials insist that the sailors and marines, on two small patrol boats, were in Iraqi waters in the Persian Gulf conducting a routine patrol under a UN mandate. In London, British officials summoned the Iranian ambassador to “demand that our people be released immediately,” according to a spokesman for the Foreign Office.
Read More +From New Palestinian Political Group to Advocate a Peaceful, Negotiated Settlement: A new Palestinian movement was launched Wednesday in Ramallah in the West Bank aimed at the moderate middle of Muslim politics. Wasatia – Arabic for “moderation” – is the first Islamic religious party to advocate a peaceful, negotiated settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a tolerant, democratic society at home. Political science professor Mohammed Dajani, director of the American Studies Institute at Al-Quds University in eastern Jerusalem, hope to build Wasatia into a movement that will eventually compete with Hamas for the votes of what he calls the silent
Read More +A good plan until the palestinians will betray the Jews by firing upon them once again with Kassam rockets from Jewish land which the palestinians stole. From the JPost: Close to 20,000 jobs have been created in the Gaza Strip over the last four months thanks to coordination between the IDF and Palestinian agricultural unions, according to Col. Nir Press, commander of the IDF Coordination and Liaison Administration. A drop in terror threats to the Karni Crossing made the changes possible, said Press. Nevertheless, unemployment in the Strip remains close to 35 percent, he said. Out of the 19,100 Gazans
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