In April 2018, Saudi Arabia’s crown prince and de facto ruler, Mohammed bin Salman, said in an interview with The Atlantic that Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, “makes Hitler look good.” MBS, as the crown prince is widely known, also dismissed the possibility of any talks between the two regional rivals.
A chorus of condemnation has risen in recent months from Western capitals in response to China’s persecution of the Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in Xinjiang. The United States, European Union, United Kingdom and Canada have imposed sanctions on Chinese officials, and U.S. President Joe Biden has maintained his predecessor’s stance that Beijing is committing “genocide” in Xinjiang—a position that the Canadian and British Parliaments also back.
A TRIPs waiver will not only impede vaccine production at this moment, it will also cause long-term harm. There are two principal concerns in this regard. First, a waiver for COVID-19 vaccines will obviously decrease the incentive for companies to make vaccines for the next disease. “The recent rhetoric will not discourage us from continuing investing in science,” wrote Bourla, the Pfizer chief. “But I am not sure if the same is true for the thousands of small biotech innovators that are totally dependent on accessing capital from investors who invest only on the premise that their intellectual property will be protected.”
Biden made no distinction between a democratic ally of the United States and a terrorist organization he did not even name. He spoke as if he did not know that the calm was broken by a terrorist organization and by no one else, and that what prevents Palestinians from having freedom, prosperity and democracy is precisely that they are ruled by terrorists and people who supports terrorism.
On April 7, a US Department of State press statement said that the Biden administration had decided to restore US financial “aid to Palestinians”, without requiring that American money not be used for terrorist purposes….
Libyan politicians have moved with salutary speed in 2021 to reunify their divided country. With UN help, the new government should hasten to clear two last hurdles: establishing a legal framework for elections and clarity about who holds supreme command of the armed forces.
What’s new? After years in which parallel rival governments fought an intermittent war, Libya has a new consolidated executive. On 10 March, parliament endorsed a national unity government headed by Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dabaiba, which took office in Tripoli. The two pre-existing governments handed over power peacefully.
When Rachid Zerrouki, a teacher in Marseille, headed back to his classroom last Monday, he braced himself for the worst. He hadn’t seen his students since the brutal killing of Samuel Paty, a 47-year-old middle school teacher in the Paris suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, who was beheaded by a young Chechen refugee days after he showed his class cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad during a lesson about freedom of expression. With school back in session after a holiday break, the Education Ministry had instructed teachers to have students participate in a minute of silence to express solidarity with Paty and all teachers throughout France.
When British Prime Minister Boris Johnson left the hospital in April 2020 after having been treated for COVID-19, he released a widely viewed video address in which he thanked the nurses that had cared for him. In singling out two for special mention—Jenny from New Zealand and Luis from Portugal—he shone a spotlight on the critical role that migrants have played during the pandemic.
n 1985, my parents were taken to court in Tehran by a tenant who was trying to stop them from selling a property he was renting from them at the time. My parents were surprised to learn about the lawsuit. After all, they had given the tenant several months to vacate. He had no legitimate legal argument.
The U.S. State Department says it is offering a $5 million reward for information about an American woman kidnapped in Afghanistan in 2008
The U.S. State Department said Wednesday it was offering a $5 million reward for information about an American woman kidnapped in Afghanistan in 2008.
Cydney Mizell, a humanitarian aid worker and her driver, Mohammad Hadi, were kidnapped in southern Kandahar province, where Mizell was teaching English and embroidery at a local girl’s school.
According to Hamas’s charter and statements by its leaders, its aim is the destruction of Israel, genocide of the Jewish people, and replacing the state with an Islamist one. This, a religious war, is the real reason Hamas and its enablers are conducting an unprovoked, jihadist assault against Israel. The tweets posted by Turks calling for further attacks against Jews just reaffirm the repeated vow of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to “reconquer” Jerusalem, which was part of the Ottoman Empire, as part of a new caliphate for Islam.
Israeli civilians have indiscriminately been targeted by the rockets of Islamist terrorist groups in Gaza for more than a week now. Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad have fired more than 3,000 of them at Israel since the outbreak of the war on May 10, according to the Israel Defense Forces. Ten people in Israel, including a young child, have been killed in the rocket fire, and hundreds have been injured.
As Tel Aviv was bombed by terrorists based in Gaza on May 11, the Turkish users filled Twitter with Jew-hating posts, calling for more bombardments and murders of more Jews. Some Twitter users, celebrating the attacks and praying for more, shared photos of fires and explosions caused by rockets not intercepted by Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system.
The Turkish news website Avlaremoz reported these posts. Some include:
"Hell all broke loose for you. Fear the Muslim. You'll burn in hell. May your fire be abundant. Murderers, terrorists. May Allah's curse be upon you. Jewish flocks. Despicable, cursed Israel. #TelAviv"
"If only I was in Jerusalem now and fighting against Israeli terrorism. If only I could kill Jews in Tel Aviv now and be al-Qassam [the Syrian Muslim preacher Izz ad-Din al-Qassam who launched attacks against British and Jewish targets in the 1930s]. Allah, you know about this much better than I do."
"The best Jew is a dead Jew."
"Ya Allah bismillah, inshallah, there won't be a single alive Jew left until morning."
"Cowardly Jews are hiding in shelters in Tel Aviv. The Jew only fears power and death."
"Jerusalem belongs to Islam. Jerusalem is ours."
"Jewish dogs are looking for a corner to hide from the rockets launched from our Gaza. Inshallah, you will be crushed under those rockets."
"Beautiful news from Palestinian friends. 9 Jews are dead and more than 30 injured as a result of rockets launched at Tel Aviv."
"If only you could send 100 TB2 [Turkish unmanned combat aerial vehicles].... There would no longer be a Tel Aviv or a single Jew left."On May 10, the Twitter account of the Turkish Chief Rabbinate Foundation – Turkish Jewish Community issued a statement expressing their respect for “all Abrahamic religions” and calling for “a peaceful resolution” in Jerusalem rather than violence. The statement said:
"On the eve of Ramadan, we follow with great sadness and concern the latest developments in Jerusalem, which is sacred to Abrahamic religions and cultures, all of which we respect.
"In this context, we ask and pray to almighty ALLAH that [those involved] will come together for a peaceful resolution as soon as possible; violence will be replaced with embracing each other and the blessed Ramadan will be celebrated in peace and quiet."In return, they received incitements to violence against Turkish Jews and Israel. According to Avlaremoz, such as:
"I don't want Jews in my country."
"The most peaceful solution is to destroy the terror state of Israel."
"The only religion in the presence of Allah is Islam. The Israelites will be wiped off from the face of the earth.
"[Life on] these lands should be made unbearable for you!!!"One Twitter user referred to the seventh-century Muslim massacre against Jews in Khaybar in Arabia, and the Muslim Sultan Saladdin, who invaded Jerusalem in the twelfth century:
"Allah willing, we will remind you of Khaybar, and the grandchildren of Saladdin are coming."The continued war against Israel is blamed by some in the West on Israel, allegedly because of disputes over the ownership of several homes in Jerusalem, and the response of a few rogue Israelis (immediately condemned by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu) to riots on the Temple Mount near the al-Aqsa Mosque.
The truth, however, is that the disputed homes are owned justly by Jews, who have legal documentation of their ownership going back to the 19th century. The Arab squatters who reside in them have refused to pay any rent since the 1980s. The Israeli Supreme Court has not yet ruled on whether the owners can evict the families who “squat” on the properties. As for the al-Aqsa mosque, it was used as a place from which to initiate violent attacks, so the Israeli police had to respond.
Unlike Hamas, the IDF tries its best to avoid harming innocent civilians in the Gaza Strip. The IDF calls the residents of buildings and warns them to evacuate before targeting military sites that Hamas has deliberately hidden among civilians in Gaza. As Israelis use weapons to protect their civilians, Hamas uses civilians to protect their weapons.
Sadly, it will not be possible to make an agreement with Hamas that will ensure lasting peace. In Islam, no agreement may extend for more than 10 years, as Mohammad did with the Quraysh tribe at Hudaibiya, and even then, it is meant only to provide time to strengthen the jihadi army, and be broken after a few years as Mohammad did. The best one can hope for is a temporary cease-fire, called a hudna, or calm.
The Turkish media’s coverage of Hamas is unimaginably distorted and biased against Israel, and attempting to stoke even more hatred against the Jewish people. When Turkish anti-Semites on Twitter are calling for more murders of Jews and destroying Israel, they are well aware that Israeli civilians are being targeted by Hamas rockets. They openly celebrate it. When the Turkish Jewish community calls for “peace” and “embracing each other” rather than “using violence,” that is not enough for these anti-Semites. This week, Turkish Jews were condemned for “not openly condemning Israel;” for “crying crocodile tears” and for supposedly hatching secret schemes.
Facts, for the anti-Semites, do not matter. The Palestinian Arab leadership has rejected offers for a state at least six times — in 1937, 1948, 1967, 2000, 2008 and in 2020 — in the last 90 years. All of the offers were either made or accepted by the Jews. The main thing keeping the Palestinian leadership stateless seems an unwillingness to share land. In Islam, any land that has once been under Muslim rule, such as with Spain (al-Andalus), must be under Muslim rule, held in trust for Allah, forever.
On September 12, 2005, for instance, Israel completed its unilateral withdrawal from Gaza, hoping that such a gesture for peace might lead to a peaceful resolution of the dispute. Less than two weeks after the Jews left Gaza, however, on September 24, 2005, the Palestinian Arabs in Gaza continued using it as a base from which to fire their post-disengagement rockets into Israel. In January 2006, in a free and fair election, Hamas won majority of seats in Palestinian legislative elections. Palestinian rocket attacks then continued.
According to Hamas’s charter and statements by its leaders, its aim is the destruction of Israel, genocide of the Jewish people, and replacing the state with an Islamist one. This, a religious war, is the real reason Hamas and its enablers are conducting an unprovoked, jihadist assault against Israel. The tweets posted by Turks calling for further attacks against Jews just reaffirm the repeated vow of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to “reconquer” Jerusalem, which was part of the Ottoman Empire, as part of a new caliphate for Islam.