PM won't discuss freeze before talks
August 28, 2010 - 11:59pmJPOST
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is expected to reject a call to extend the settlement construction freeze and is likely to make clear again, before he departs to Washington on Tuesday, that the settlements are an issue – like all the other core issues – to be discussed in the negotiations themselves.
100 cities protest stoning sentence in Iran
August 28, 2010 - 11:58pmYNET NEWS
Some 20 people gathered at a Jaffa café on Saturday to protest Iran's capital punishment policy, joining thousands around the world who held similar rallies. Iran is rated 2nd in the world in the number of citizens' executions it conducts, second only to China.
Rabbi Yosef: May Abbas perish from this world
August 28, 2010 - 11:57pmYNET NEWS
Direct peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians are nearing, but in Jerusalem, voices of war can still be heard. Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef Saturday night wished death on Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and his people, who he called "evil enemies of Israel."
Hamas Threatens to 'Step on Heads' of PA for Talks with Israel
August 28, 2010 - 11:55pmINN
The military wing of the Hamas terrorist organization that controls Gaza has threatened to “step on the heads” of the PA government if it compromises on Jerusalem and other issues in direct talks with Israel.
Knesset Bill To Cut Funding of Leftist Artists Boycotting Ariel
August 28, 2010 - 11:54pmINN
Knesset Members are threatening to cut off funding for more than 50 artists who signed a letter refusing to appear in a new theater in Ariel because it is located in Samaria. Ariel Mayor Ron Nachman called the performers part of a small minority of extremists.
Libertarians’ Leftist Love Affair with Islam
August 28, 2010 - 11:53pmFPM
Libertarians are having a leftist-style love affair with Islam. They defend Islam while trashing America as the violent oppressor of Muslims, the Middle East, and freedom. And they side with Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf against the Ground Zero mosque protesters, saying America caused 9/11 and “the Imam is right” in his claims that “America has more blood on its hands than al Qaeda.”
Who're You Calling a 'Bigot'?
August 28, 2010 - 11:52pmAMERICAN THINKER
John Esposito, director of the Saudi-funded Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim Christian Understanding at Georgetown University, having observed that a large majority of Americans oppose an Islamic center at ground zero, could not decide whether American society now more closely resembles that of Birmingham, Alabama circa 1963 or Nazi Germany on the eve of Kristallnacht:
The jihad of the word erupts in Denmark yet again
August 28, 2010 - 11:51pmSPECTATOR - UK
A chilling development in Denmark illustrates just how ‘hate speech’ laws, which were introduced by deluded western liberals, are being used to stifle and criminalise the expression of legitimate opinion and essential debate -- the prerequisite of a liberal society. Lars Hedegaard is president of Denmark’s International Free Press Society, which is devoted to fighting to preserve freedom of expression -- particularly against the threat from radical Islam to shut it down on the spurious grounds of ‘Islamophobia’. The inevitable has now happened: as Nathaniel Sugarman writes at The Legal Project, Hedegaard finds himself facing prosecution for ‘racism’ over remarks he has made about Islam.
LIVE VIDEO: WJC Governing Board in Jerusalem, 31 August / 01 September 2010
August 28, 2010 - 11:48pm
At a major World Jewish Congress gathering held in Jerusalem on 31 August and 1 September 2010, Israeli leaders including President Shimon Peres, Defense Minister Ehud Barak, Opposition Leader Tzipi Livni and Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer will address over 200 delegates from Jewish communities world-wide. Writer Elie Wiesel and former Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar will give keynote addresses.
- JPR Headlines
