Israel’s Supreme Court has overturned a ban on a US student from entering the country over her alleged support of an anti-Israel boycott campaign. Lara Alqasem travelled from Florida to Tel Aviv on a student visa on 2 October and has since been held at an airport detention centre pending her appeals. Her lawyers called the court’s ruling a victory… Read more »
A man believed to be a Japanese freelance journalist held hostage in Syria for the past three years has been released, Japan’s government says. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told reporters that Japan had been informed by Qatar that a man likely to be Jumpei Yasuda was now in Turkey. Mr Yasuda went missing in June 2015 after travelling from… Read more »
A website for a high profile Saudi Arabia summit was attacked by hackers. Pictures circulating on Twitter showed the Future Investment Initiative website with a mocked-up photo of the country’s ruler about to execute Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The website was later functioning normally after being inaccessible for at least six hours. The summit has seen a series of high-profile… Read more »
The Fatah-led Palestinian Authority in the occupied West Bank and Hamas authorities in the Gaza Strip routinely arrest and torture peaceful critics and opponents, Human Rights Watch says. A report based on interviews with former detainees alleges the rival factions have “established machineries of repression to crush dissent”. Security forces, it says, often taunt, threaten, beat, and put detainees in… Read more »
The Khashoggi case is a huge deal right now, and for good reason. A government is silencing media that is critical of them and got caught. The Saudi government could have done a wide variety of other things besides killing a reporter. They had been trying to stall giving out the facts of whether they killed Khashoggi or not most likely, because the… Read more »
Saudi Arabia has admitted Jamal Khashoggi was killed inside its consulate in the Turkish city of Istanbul. Khashoggi – a Saudi writer, American resident, and Washington Post columnist – entered the building on October 2 to obtain documentation certifying he had divorced his ex-wife. He never came out. After two weeks of repeated denials that it had anything to do with his disappearance, the… Read more »
n indictment was filed on Monday against the terrorist who murdered Ari Fuld, on September 16, 2018, according to IDF Spokesperson’s Unit. Fuld,45, was stabbed in the back by 17 year-old Palestinian, Khalil Yusef Ali Jabarin, outside the Gush Etzion shopping center. Be the first to know – Join our Facebook page. Mortally wounded, Fuld chased his Palestinian attacker, jumped over a short stone… Read more »
Fars Air Qeshm Boeing 747 touched down in Beirut at 2:04 p.m. on October 16. The large white aircraft had left Tehran at 9:33 that morning but had concealed its flight details from international tracking authorities. It stayed in Beirut for almost a day before leaving for Doha on October 17. That plane is now at the center of a Fox News… Read more »
he areas are Naharayim in the north and Tzofar in the south, known as Baqura and Ghamr in Arabic. The lease governing them was for 25 years and had been due for renewal. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel would negotiate over “extending the current arrangement”. Earlier King Abdullah of Jordan issued a statement saying it wanted to… Read more »
Alright, so the Middle East right now is more of a powder keg now than ever. The Kashoggi case is very damaging to our allies in the Middle East. We need to either help repair the damage done, or cut ties completely. Cutting ties seems like what we are doing right now. The Syrian UN Representative is stepping down and… Read more »