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U.S. President Donald Trump and Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas in Bethlehem on May 23, 2017. Credit: Shealah Craighead/White House.
Palestinian war on Trump administration’s Mideast peace plan
Gaza-based Palestinian groups have issued several statements hinting that they will use all means, including terrorism, to foil the upcoming U.S. peace plan.
An aerial view of Valencia, Spain. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Crime by migrants, illegal immigrants, surges in Spain
The Madrid city council, run by Mayor Manuela Carmena, has ordered police to keep out of the neighborhood of Lavapiés.
Conditions of Palestinians in Lebanon have worsened to a point where 65 percent of them live below the poverty line, according to a report by Al Jazeera. Credit: Middle East Monitor.
Why Palestinians are fleeing Lebanon
International journalists based in the Middle East seem to care precious little about the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Lebanon, who, for several decades now, have been protesting the apartheid and discrimination practiced by an Arab country.
Prison in Ebrach, Germany. Credit: Andreas Bohnenstengel vis Wikimedia Commons.
Germany: Number of foreign-born prison inmates at record high
North Rhine-Westphalia once had 114 prison imams, but now has 25. The drop occurred after German authorities carried out security checks on prison imams and discovered that 97 were Turkish civil servants whose salaries were paid for by the Turkish government.
British Houses of Parliament. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
A month of multiculturalism in Britain: January 2019
“The Guardian” reported that hundreds, and possibly thousands, of young girls in Britain are being subjected to so-called “breast-ironing,” an African practice whereby a hot stone is used to break the tissue and slow its growth. The objective is to stop unwanted male attention.
U.S. President Donald Trump and Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on May 3, 2017. Credit: Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead.
PA’s odd definitions of peace, compromise with Israel
The Trump administration and the international community would be doing a real service to the Palestinians if they started paying attention to assaults on public freedoms in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Egypt's Sinai Peninsula (pictured in satellite image) is the site of reported collaboration between the Hamas and Islamic State terror groups. Credit: NASA.
‘We will teach you a lesson’: Extremist persecution of Christians, November 2018
“[T]he government ... protect the aggressors and leave the victims mercilessly helpless. ... The devastation in terms of massacre of lives and destruction of property is unimaginable.“ — Rev. Dacholom Datiri, president of the Church of Christ in Nigeria
La Rambla, Barcelona. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Spanish authorities note Catalonia’s jihad problem
Police said that jihadis were known to have committed at least 369 robberies and thefts in and around Barcelona. In addition, cell members sustained themselves through drug trafficking and document fraud.
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas addresses the U.N. General Assembly, Sept. 27, 2018. Photo by Cia Pak/U.N. Photo.
The UN, the ‘State of Palestine’ and the torture of women
The P.A. regularly complains about human-rights violations of Palestinians held in Israeli prison for security-related offenses. But when the its own security forces detain and torture a mother of three, Palestinian leaders are found elsewhere—like at the helm of a U.N. bloc.
Abu Ubaida (center), a spokesman for Hamas’s “military wing,” speaks in the southern Gaza town of Rafah on Jan. 31, 2017. Credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.
Apologists for extremism in the West, or what Erdoğan calls ‘mainstream’ Islam
Many apologists say that Islam is a religion of peace. What they do not say is that, according to Islam, “peace” is to come only after all the world has converted to Islam.
The Netherlands, population 17 million, in dark green. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
What is being taught at the ‘Islamic University of Europe’ in the Netherlands?
Europe might wish to look into what is being taught at Islamic schools, particularly those that receive government money.
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas (center) meets with the new Fatah-Hamas unity government in the West Bank city of Ramallah on June 2, 2014. Credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90.
Palestinian New Year’s resolutions: ‘All forms of resistance are legitimate’
These messages demonstrate, with no room for doubt, that any talk about resuming a peace process between Israel and the Palestinians is one thing only: a colossal fraud.