Terrorists around the Middle East are rejoicing and congratulating Hizballah on their act of war against Israel. BEIRUT (AFP) - The Palestinian ruling party Hamas and Egypt’s opposition Muslim Brotherhood have both congratulated Lebanese militant group Hezbollah on its capture of two Israeli soldiers. “Hamas (whose military wing has also kidnaped an ...
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Nothing gladdens the hearts of Palestinians like news of murder and kidnapping: Palestinian refugees celebrate kidnapping. The same way they celebrated on September 11, 2001. Reports that two Israeli soldiers were kidnapped by Hizbullah in a cross-border attack sent hundreds of joyous Shiite Lebanese and Palestinian refugees to the streets of Beirut ...
The Lebanese-Iranian terror gang Hizballah launched an attack into Israel this morning, killing three Israeli soldiers and kidnapping two more. The Associated Press is using the word “captured” as if this were a legitimate military operation, even though Hizballah is listed as a terrorist organization by the US State Department. BEIRUT, Lebanon ...
At Israel Insider, Shelomo Alfassa enlightens us about the meaning of the New York train bombing mastermind’s nom de guerre: Andalusi: What’s in a Name? The FBI reported that the name of the terrorist mastermind was Emir Andalusi, an unusual name, but one that immediately gives away his ideology to those ...
Assem Hammoud, the economics teacher at Lebanese International University arrested for plotting to bomb New York commuter trains, had maps and attack plans stored on his computer. BEIRUT, Lebanon - Lebanese authorities found maps and bombing plans on the personal computer of an al-Qaida suspect accused of plotting to attack New ...
Hizballah urges the Palestinian terrorists not to release their kidnap victim without getting a ransom. Lebanon’s Hizbullah terror group, which has swapped kidnapped Israelis for Arab prisoners in the past, urged Palestinian terrorists on Friday to only free an Israeli soldier captured in Gaza exchange for Palestinian prisoners. “There are 10,000 detainees ...
A fairly unbiased piece at the Christian Science Monitor (for a change) makes a good point about the Palestinian kidnapping of Corporal Gilad Shalit: Israel goes after both Hamas leaderships. [Hamas expert Magnus] Ranstorp also believes that Sunday’s kidnapping of Cpl. Gilad Shalit, which was the catalyst for the heightened hostilities, ...
Here’s a nauseating slice of Islamic Holocaust denial from Lebanon’s New TV, broadcast on June 21, 2006, and assisted by depraved US author Norman Finkelstein. (Courtesy of MEMRI TV.) [Video] Report: The “Holocaust” is the Jewish term for burning the sacrificial offering to ashes. Never has there been an issue subject to ...
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The Associated Press reports that hundreds of enraged Shi’ite Muslim supporters of Hizballah kingpin Hassan Nasrallah rioted in southern Beirut today. Over a TV show. Shiite Muslims riot after TV program mocks Hezbollah leader. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Hundreds of Shiite Muslims enraged by a TV comedy that mocked the leader of ...
Did you wonder why UN peacekeepers acted so quickly to “broker” a cease fire when Hizballah launched a large scale attack against Israel yesterday? Hint: it isn’t because the peacekeepers were disturbed by Hizballah’s actions. Report: Israel threatened to bomb Beirut. (Hat tip: Carl in Jerusalem.)
Terrorists in Lebanon launched a rocket attack into Israel today. But the BBC’s headline could not possibly be more ridiculous: Lebanon border clash breaks out. In fact, get a load of all these wire services headlines for the story, almost every one of them focused on or emphasizing the Israeli response instead ...
From Lebanon’s Al-Manar TV (the Hizballah mouthpiece that qualifies as a Google News source), Hizballah kingpin Hassan Nasrallah explains that the nation’s strength is “its willingness to sacrifice blood, souls, children, fathers, and families”—to destroy Israel. (Courtesy MEMRI TV.) [Video]
No raisins for Abu and Nidal: Bomb kills two Islamic Jihad officials in Lebanon. SIDON, Lebanon (Reuters) - A senior Islamic Jihad official and his brother were killed in southern Lebanon on Friday in a car bombing the Palestinian group blamed on Israel. An Israeli government source said the Jewish state “has ...
Clashes break out as Palestinians kidnap Lebanon soldier. HALWA, Lebanon (AFP) - Clashes broke out between the Lebanese army and pro-Syrian Palestinian guerrillas near the Syrian border, wounding two people, and a soldier was detained for several hours, police said. The soldier, Khaled Ibrahim, was snatched and then freed by guerrillas of ...
Michael J. Totten visits the Lebanon-Israel border, where everything could explode at any moment as Iran has set up a sophisticated surveillance network to identify targets in Israel.
I thought the previous post showed some pretty loathsome abuse of children. But then, for some reason, I thought about browsing Getty Images (where you can often find those photos that media has decided you don’t need to see) for pictures of the exhibits in Beirut around the “Qana Massacre” festival. Again, ...
A Lebanese Muslim Shiite child carries an effigy of the Star of David with the head of the skeleton of an Israeli soldier where a Lebanese flag and a Hezbollah flag were inserted during a rally marking the 10th anniversary of what is known in Lebanon as the ‘Qana massacre,’ ...