Special to WorldTribune.com Egyptians are relishing a triumph of the deep-fried variety over Israel. A team of Egyptian chefs from the falafel bar Zooba rolled to victory in the finals over team Israel at the 2016 London Falafel Festival on May 1. The Egyptian dish, a charred-aubergine-stuffed falafel made with fava beans, received the majority […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Germany fully expects Turkey to honor a deal limiting refugee flows to Europe despite the resignation of Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, with whom German Chancellor Angela Merkel hammered out the deal. “The chancellor has worked very well until now with Davutoglu and all Turkish representatives and we assume that this good and […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Donald Trump would “not in a million years” have lectured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the way Hillary Clinton did during her tenure as secretary of state, Trump’s adviser on Israel said. Jason Greenblatt, who has been working for Trump for the past two decades, made the comment during a recent interview […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Muslims will never be able to deal with their internal problems until they can get over their “fixation on Jews,” a prominent German-Egyptian scholar said. “The Jews have always been small in number, but they cause us some mental reaction and we cannot get them out of our mind,” Hamed Abdel-Samad said […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Four tons of a chemical used in the manufacture of long-range rockets was seized by Israeli authorities in a shipment of salt that was bound for the Gaza Strip. Customs and Shin Bet officials at the Nitzana Border Crossing used by Egypt, Israel and the Palestinian Authority seized the four tons of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Political allies of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani have won a resounding victory in the second round of parliamentary elections, according to official results. Iran’s Interior Ministry said on April 30 that the List of Hope, which backs Rouhani, has won an additional 38 seats in the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Geostrategy-Direct.com Israel has unveiled a defense system designed to detect, track and disrupt enemy drones. The state-owned Rafael Advanced Defense Systems presented its Drone Dome on 11 April at the LAAD security conference in Brazil. Rafael described Drone Dome as an “end-to-end system designed to provide effective airspace defense against hostile […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Palestinian youth overwhelmingly oppose Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) and don’t trust any of the Palestinian leadership factions, according to a new poll. Most young Palestinians say they are socially conservative and believe the Israeli-Palestinian conflict cannot be resolved through negotiations, the poll published on April 25 by the Jerusalem […]
Special to WorldTribune.com The United States took a page straight out of the Israeli playbook when it recently launched a “knock operation” to warn civilians of an impending airstrike on an Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) target. The U.S. put the tactic to use during an April 5 strike on an ISIL financial […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Israeli data-mining technology that could have given French authorities a chance to prevent the November 2015 terror attacks was rejected by higher-ups in Paris, an Israeli security expert said. After the Charlie Hebdo attack in January 2015, an Israeli company offered France terrorist-tracking software that could have helped authorities flag the terror […]
