fbpx
Category

militant

Mimicking Al-Qaida, militant threat grows in Sinai

They came in Toyota pick-up trucks, dozens of heavily armed masked men, firing machineguns and waving the black flag of Al-Qaida as terrified residents and police huddled indoors, and then disappeared again, melting away into the mountains and remote villages of Egypt\’s Sinai desert.

Egyptian troops move into Israeli border zone

Gunmen fired shots towards a police station in the main administrative center of Egypt\’s North Sinai on Thursday, underscoring lawlessness in the desert region bordering Israel as a Egyptian military offensive there entered its second day.

Egypt fires intelligence chief, militants hit

President Mohamed Morsi fired the intelligence chief on Wednesday and Egyptian aircraft hit targets on the border with Israel in the biggest assault in the area in nearly 40 years after a deadly attack by militants on Egyptian border police.

Seven killed on Israel’s Egypt and Gaza borders

Militants who crossed into Israel from Egypt\’s Sinai Desert fired on Israelis building a barrier on the border on Monday, killing one worker, before soldiers shot dead two of the attackers, Israel\’s military said.

Israel police arrest Hamas lawmaker in East Jerusalem

Israeli police arrested a Hamas lawmaker on Monday who had been sheltering for more than a year in the International Red Cross (ICRC) offices in East Jerusalem, a police spokesman said.

Ex-JDL member urges faith without fanaticism

Review of former Jewish Defense League member Brad Hirschfield\’s \”You Don\’t Have to Be Wrong for Me To Be Right: Finding Faith Without Fanaticism\” (Harmony Books, Random House, 2007).

Why Some Jews Hate the L.A. Times

On April 1, Los Angeles County children\’s social worker Jules Weingart sent the Los Angeles Times a letter protesting its predilection for calling Palestinian suicide-bombers \”militants.\” As a courtesy, Weingart attached a list of normative definitions of the terms \”militant,\” \”terrorism,\” \”terror\” and \”extremist.\”

On April 18, Weingart received a response from Times Readers Representative Jamie Gold. \”The word terrorist is not applied to combatants in Israel,\” Gold informed Weingart on behalf of the newspaper, \”because it is considered a politically loaded word.\”

That this is some perverse form of political correctness, few can doubt. But as Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center has asked repeatedly over the last year, \”Political correctness for whom — suicide-bombers?\”

New Articles

More news and opinions than at a
Shabbat dinner, right in your inbox.

More news and opinions than at a Shabbat dinner, right in your inbox.

More news and opinions than at a Shabbat dinner, right in your inbox.