From CNS News: Islamic groups and governments are pressing ahead with a campaign to have international organizations take steps, including legal ones, to provide protection for their religion in the wake of the Mohammed cartoon controversy. In a drive pursued largely away from the headlines, the Organization for the Islamic Conference (OIC) is promoting the […]

Now we don’t approve of Hamas getting a penny from anyone. Still, this is $50 million that the Thug-In-Chief can’t use for his own galloping nuclear ambitions. And it’s also $50 million unspent by the United States or Western Europe — a small sum, but perhaps someday such sums will be put toward the defense […]

From the Australian: POPE Benedict XVI prayed for peace in the Middle East as he delivered his first Easter Sunday blessing last night to a cheering crowd of 80,000 pilgrims in StPeter’s Square. Celebrating his 79th birthday and clutching the silver staff of his predecessor, John Paul II, Pope Benedict called for an end to […]

Anne Bayefsky writes, “On April 10th the UN Disarmament Commission elected Iran as one of its three Vice-Chairpersons. Afterwards, the UN’s Under Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs, Nobuaki Tanaka, said the Commission “played a unique role” with “the advantage of being a fully universal deliberative body.– And from IsraelNationalNews, “Iran Threatens to Destroy Israel, Elected to […]

From Reuters: JERUSALEM – Israel could release jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouthi if Washington grants clemency to a U.S. Navy analyst convicted of spying for the Jewish state in the 1980s, Israel’s Army Radio said on Sunday. It said Israel plans to propose the swap for Jonathan Pollard once acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is […]

From Reuters: VIENNA – New satellite imagery indicate Iran has expanded its uranium conversion site at Isfahan and reinforced its Natanz underground uranium enrichment plant against possible military strikes, a U.S. think tank said… The Institute for Science and International Security said in an email sent to news media with attached commercial satellite photos that […]

From UPI: JERUSALEM — A leader of the Palestinian Hamas organization has met with an al-Qaida fundraiser in Yemen, the Jerusalem Post reported Friday. The meeting, two weeks ago at a fundraising event by the Hamas office in Yemen, was between Khaled Marshaal and Sheikh Abd al-Majid al-Zindani [link added -RB], said by the United […]

Update on the situation in Chad from the TimesOnline: CHAD severed diplomatic ties with neighbouring Sudan yesterday and threatened to expel 200,000 Sudanese refugees, the day after government troops beat off a fierce rebel attack on its capital, Ndjamena. President Déby accuses Sudan of arming rebels who had sped across the vast desert country from […]

Al-Arian update from AP: WASHINGTON “” Federal authorities have decided to deport a former University of South Florida professor and long-time Palestinian rights activist after failing to convict him on charges he helped finance terrorist attacks in Israel. Two lawyers familiar with the case say Sami Al-Arian has reached an agreement with prosecutors to plead […]