Jordan defers to Islamists, allows ‘March to Jerusalem’

Jordan defers to Islamists, allows ‘March to Jerusalem’

Special to WorldTribune.com AMMAN — Jordan, under strong pressure from the Islamist opposition and its foreign backers has allowed a scheduled march by up to one million Muslims to Israel. Officials said the Hashemite kingdom has relayed formal approval for the so-called “Global March to Jerusalem” on March 30.  The procession, organized by Hamas and […]

Tale of two massacres and the price of withdrawing from Afghanistan and Pakistan

Tale of two massacres and the price of withdrawing from Afghanistan and Pakistan

Sol W. Sanders [See Archive Two recent deeply intertwined violent events demonstrate the terrible burden hanging on the outcome of U.S. intervention in Afghanistan and Pakistan. An American soldier’s rampage allegedly taking the lives of 17 Afghan villagers paralleled the attack of a Franco-Mahgrebian youth resulting in seven deaths of French [Muslim] veterans and Jewish […]

Wet winter ends Israel’s 7 years of drought; half of water now supplied by desalination

Wet winter ends Israel’s 7 years of drought; half of water now supplied by desalination

Special to WorldTribune.com TEL AVIV — Israel’s water supply has been rescued by one of the rainiest winters in years. Officials said the winter of 2012 has eased the threat of a water crisis in Israel. They said after years of drought, the water levels in acquifers and the Sea of Galilee rose significantly and […]

Israeli student team launches nano-satellite project

Israeli student team launches nano-satellite project

Special to WorldTribune.com TEL AVIV — An Israeli university has overseen a program meant to form a constellation of nano-satellites. The Israel Technical Institute, known as the Technion, has hosted a nano-satellite project called CAESAR. Organizers said the program, administered by the state-owned Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, called for a constellation of 48 Cubesats. “The […]

Netanyahu’s gift to Obama jeopardized the 2800-year-old bond between two peoples

Netanyahu’s gift to Obama jeopardized the 2800-year-old bond between two peoples

Special to WorldTribune.com By Sheda Vasseghi, FreePressers.com During their most recent meeting, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave President Barack Obama a copy of the Book of Esther as a symbol of his fears for Israel if the Islamic Republic of Iran becomes nuclear. While this gesture effectively telegraphed to the American public the message […]

Saudi loses student visa over ‘indicators’ of security issues: He threatened to blow up White House

Saudi loses student visa over ‘indicators’ of security issues: He threatened to blow up White House

Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — A Saudi national has lost his student visa to the U.S.  after triggering “several indicators of national security concerns”. “ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] special agents from our Washington, D.C., office arrested a Saudi Arabian national who was admitted as an F-1 non-immigrant student and violated the term and condition […]

Obama’s October surprise

Obama’s October surprise

Jeffrey T. Kuhner Is President Obama planning to launch military strikes against Iran in order to ensure re-election? Is there an October surprise being hatched by the White House? All the signals are: yes. Recently, Mr. Obama told an audience at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s (AIPAC) annual policy conference in Washington, D.C. that […]

‘United States of Islam’: The logic behind the emerging Arabic Caliphate

‘United States of Islam’: The logic behind the emerging Arabic Caliphate

Special to WorldTribune.com By Alexander Maistrovoy, Freepressers.com The Arabic Caliphate is not a figment of the imagination anymore: fragments of the Middle Eastern regimes will soon form a group of islands called The Muslim Archipelago. “A specter is haunting Europe — the specter of Communism.” These were the first words of Karl Marx’s “The Communist […]

In Aleppo, Syria’s business elites are voting with their money

In Aleppo, Syria’s business elites are voting with their money

Special to WorldTribune.com LONDON — The powerful business elite in Syria is said to be steadily withdrawing from the regime of President Bashar Assad. Western diplomats and opposition sources said leading Syrian industrialists and investors were quietly transferring their funds out of the country. They said the most powerful element of the elite, based in […]

The diverging U.S. and Israeli interests and a joint strategy on Iran

The diverging U.S. and Israeli interests and a joint strategy on Iran

Special to WorldTribune.com By Fariborz Saremi, FreePressers.com American and Israeli attitudes to the risk posed by an Iran in possession of nuclear weapons are based on diverging historical experiences. Having seen previous strategies fail to achieve their objectives, President Barack Obama is apparently set on pursuing a policy that focuses on hard international sanctions. A […]