Middle East

Lebanon’s new president vows to retake ‘Israeli-occupied’ land (JNS.org) The Lebanese parliament elected Michael Aoun as its president Monday, ending a two-and-half-year vacuum that threatened to destabilize the highly sectarian country. Aoun, 81, is a retired general from the Lebanese Civil War and a polarizing figure whose Christian political party, the Free Patriotic Movement, is

After a two-and-a-half year vacancy, the position of Lebanese head of state was finally filled Monday when veteran politician and former general Michel Aoun was elected president by parliament. An octogenarian former general, Aoun has long eyed the presidency, a position that must be filled by a Maronite Christian under Lebanon’s confessional political system. With

This article was originally published by International Business Times. On my first morning in Tel Aviv, I happened upon the Albi Cafe, infamous as a hub for left-wing activism. I wanted to speak to both Palestinian and Israeli women about feminist cooperation, and whether it is possible to work together to challenge male violence and

Sandra Solomon was looking ‘for money and fame’ and she ‘found it with the Zionists,’ her kin say By Dov Lieber Sandra Solomon, a Palestinian woman who converted to Christianity and advocates for Israel. (Screenshot) The niece of a top official in the Palestinian Fatah party who was a close confidant of the late PA

By Joe Spier CALGARY, Alberta, Canada — The “Medal of Valor” is Israel’s highest military decoration awarded for acts of extreme heroism in combat, in the face of the enemy, at the risk of life. Only 40 have ever been awarded, none since the 1973 Yom Kippur War. The Arab offensive against Israel which began on

8 adults, 5 minors charged with incitement to terror for dancing with and stabbing photos of slain Dawabsha family By Times of Israel staff Yakir Ashbel (center), the groom from what came to be known as the ‘hate wedding,’ is brought to the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court on December 31, 2015 after being arrested on suspicion