The EU foreign policy chief said on Saturday that comments by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who called Israel a \”cancerous tumor\” with no place in a future Middle East, were \”outrageous and hateful.\”
After the 1967 Six-Day War, much of the radical left in the West predicated its militant anti-Zionism on the illusory notion that the Palestinians represented a revolutionary and \”progressive\” vanguard that could one day mobilize the Arab masses in the cause of social revolution.
Russia warned the West on Tuesday against unilateral action on Syria, a day after U.S. President Barack Obama threatened \”enormous consequences\” if his Syrian counterpart used chemical or biological arms or even moved them in a menacing way.
When the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad compares Israel to a cancer, I take it personally.
Israel\’s chief Ashkenazi rabbi said in Berlin that medical training for mohels, or ritual circumcisers, could resolve concerns in Germany regarding circumcision of male children.
In the restive city of Qatif in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, the older Shiites are quiet. They had once cheered the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran and had hoped their time had come for greater equality in the kingdom. But that dream has faded.
Prosecutors in Vienna are examining the recent posting of an allegedly anti-Semitic caricature on Austrian politician Heinz-Christian Strache\’s Facebook page.
Egypt reportedly is planning to introduce tanks in the Sinai for the first time since the 1973 war with Israel.
The Obama administration is urging countries attending the Non-Aligned Movement summit in Tehran next week to press Iran to comply with demands to make its nuclear program more transparent.
