JERUSALEM -- Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said in Iran that armed resistance is the only way to fight against Israel. The "gun is our only response to the Zionist regime," Haniyeh said Monday in Tehran, according to the semi-official Iranian Fars...
JERUSALEM -- Is Hamas trying to change its stripes? Terrorist attacks against Israelis appear to be on pause, and rocket fire from Gaza is down significantly. The Hamas leader in Damascus, Khaled Meshaal, is trying to distance himself from the Assad regime...
JERUSALEM -- Major Palestinian parties Fatah and Hamas agreed to form a unified government for the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The agreement, signed Monday in Qatar, stipulates that the government will be headed by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud...
JERUSALEM—Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered Israel's attorney general to open an investigation into Jerusalem's top Muslim cleric, who called for killing Jews. Mufti Mohammed Hussein, speaking last week at an event celebrating the 47th anniversary...
By Arthur Gale, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published August 10, 2011
In "The Jew is not my Enemy: Unveiling the Myths that Fuel Muslim Anti-Semitism" (McClelland & Stewart, $24.95), journalist Tarek Fatah claims that the Hadith, a compilation of the sayings attributed to Mohammed, is the source of much Muslim hatred...
The announcement of a Fatah-Hamas reconciliation agreement is a by-product of the Arab Spring, and the Palestinian chess game to position the public of both the West Bank and Gaza Strip for Palestinian statehood. The questions that the deal raises are...
