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...
EU Aid to Continue to Bypass Palestinian Government
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...
How a British Jihadi Saw the Light
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...
From the LOL department: Lebanon to seek war reparations from Israel
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...
Rise in Arab Volunteers for National Service
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...
Captured Britons Taken to Tehran
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...
New Palestinian Political Group to Advocate a Peaceful, Negotiated Settlement
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...
IDF: 20,000 jobs created in Gaza via coordination with palestinian farmers
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...
The Rewards of Peace with Israel
The Rewards of Peace with Israel, from a Lebanese: We Lebanese should do the obvious and honorable, and make a wholehearted peace with Israel. We need to end, once for all, and permanently, for the sake of all children, this futile bleeding conflict we were pushed into on behalf of the anti-civilization forces. We have lost 60 years of our lives, our brightest have emigrated, our country is...
Drop This Cherished Illusion
Via Drop This Cherished Illusion: Does anyone really think it is possible to reach a settlement with the Palestinians that will guarantee peace between us? How can one not see the rift among them, their inability to administer their own lives, Fatah’s helplessness, Hamas’ abysmal hatred, the murderousness of the popular resistance organizations, the destructive influence of radical...