The former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair is being accused of “parroting” the same demands as Israel is making, de-legitimizing his role as unbiased mediator in the eyes of the leadership in Palestine. Blair Disappoints Palestinians One senior Palestinian leader, Nabil Shaath, has stated that Palestinian officials seriously considered whether or not to make a…
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Popularity Rises as Abbas Returns to Ramallah
Thousands Greet Abbas President Mahmoud Abbas, the head of the Palestinian Authority, returned home on Sunday to a hero’s welcome. Thousands greeted him in Ramallah upon his return from delivering a controversial speech to the United Nations General Assembly in which he called for the creation of a Palestinian State. It is estimated that about…
Ofer Group Private Equity Group & Ofer Group Investments
The Ofer Private Equity Group is part of the larger Ofer Group owned by the Ofer Brothers. Established in 2006, they started to maximize the experience that was had by the Ofer Hi-Tech management team. They have, to date, had three successful exits with ECI Telecom, Tecnomatix and Pharmos. They are part of the controlling…
Israel Clashes with Protesters on Syrian Border
Despite several warnings from Israeli troops to stay away from the border, hundreds of pro-Palestinian demonstrators stormed the fence on Sunday until Israeli troops fired across the Syrian frontier, scattering the crowd in a panic. Syrian television is reporting at least four dead, including a 12-year-old boy, and 15 wounded, with the number of dead…
Electric Cars Coming to Israel
Better Place, the Israel-based electric car company, released its pricing schedule in advance of its introduction of the world’s first nation-wide battery charging grid. Entire Country Within Driving Range The grid will be used to power-up Better Place’s electric cars, soon to go on the market. According to company press releases, the Better Place’s charging…
Israel and Lebanon File Protests at UN Over Border Confrontation
Diplomats representing Lebanon and Israel at the United Nations formally submitted protests concerning the violent border clashes that took place between Israel, Lebanon and Syria on May 15, Nakba Day, this past Sunday. Nakba is Day of Catastrophe May 15th is the day the Arab world calls Nakba, the Arabic word for ‘catastrophe.’ The day…
Abu Sisi Indicted in Beersheva Court for Rocket Attacks from Gaza
Dirar Abu Sisi the 42 year-old engineer who was arrested by Israel while traveling in the Ukraine, was indicted yesterday in an Israeli court for being a member of Hamas and for designing rockets for the Islamist group’s military branch. Indictment for Rocket Manufacture and Membership in Hamas The official summary of the court indictment,…
Israel Approves New Construction in Wake of Massacre
Reports that at least 30,000 people were in attendance at the funeral of five members of the Fogel family, who were brutally murdered on Friday night while asleep in their beds. According to the Israeli army, two terrorists entered the town of Itamar, not far from Nablus, at about 10:30pm. The first house they entered…
UFO over Temple Mount: Is the 12th Imam an Alien Visitor?
I am a skeptic when it comes to UFO sightings, but in this video, the proofs that a UFO hovered over Jerusalem’s Temple Mount on Jan. 28th are impressive. One question comes to mind after watching the video and the timing of the uprisings all over the Mideast is that perhaps aliens are responsible? After…
What Does Article 151 in the New Egyptian Constitution Mean?
Perhaps one of the outcomes of the Egyptian revolt that interests both Western observers and of course Israel is whether a new government will honor the Peace Treaty Anwar Sadat signed with Israel. The current leaders of the Military Council have made it clear that they will continue to honor all treaties, including Egypt’s treaty…
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Independent Middle East News
- Ankara Fears Increased Kurdish Resistance February 18, 2012by Mahmoud Abu Ghosh According to an intelligence report released Friday, Turkey’s military fears Kurdish resistance will increase in 2012, following months of the Turkish Arned Forces (TSK) brutally suppressing Kurdish rebels and their supporters. According to the report, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) announced it will start conducting raids from the a […]
- Kurds Mark 13 Years Since Öcalan’s Capture February 16, 2012by Mahmoud Abu Ghosh People throughout Turkish-occupied northern Kurdistan marked 13 years since the imprisonment of Abdullah Öcalan, founding leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). The anniversary was observed Wednesday with protests and business closures. Some PKK sympathizers in the Kurdish city of Hakkari were also reported to have thrown […]
- Turkish Jets Pound Kurdish Region February 12, 2012by Mahmoud Abu Ghosh Turkish warplanes have bombed several targets in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq, Ankara’s military revealed Sunday.In the second cross-border airstrike in just over a week, the jets hit caves and other suspected rebel shelters in the Zap and Hakurk regions in an operation that began late Saturday, an army […]
- Turkey Kills 13 Kurds in Overnight Clashes February 9, 2012by Mahmoud Abu Ghosh Turkish forces killed 13 Kurdish rebels in occupied northern Kurdistan overnight, marking an escalation in violence at a time when winter weather generally limits clashes. Resistance fighters from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) attacked some 10 different Turkish military targets at roughly 2:30am in Hakkari province, Turkish sources […]
- Egypt Defies US Demands February 8, 2012by Naama Ben-Yaakov Cairo announced Wednesday that it would not be swayed by American threats to cut off the aid Egypt receives from the United States when investigating foreign-funded organizations promoting Western interests, a case that has prompted Washington to warn that US military support worth an annual $1.3 billion may be in jeopardy. The US wants [ […]
- Ankara Fears Increased Kurdish Resistance February 18, 2012