The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) decided to target Fox News after several programs featured commentators who noted the existence of no-go Muslim-dominated areas where Islamic terror cells take root and find recruits. In response to CAIR’s criticism, Fox News has apologized, even saying the coverage of the no-go zones was offensive. It is as if the forces of the global Jihad have acquired a veto over what appears on the air on the channel.

While CAIR’s pressure was certainly a factor in the capitulation to the Muslim Brotherhood lobby, another factor could well have been the influence of the Saudi billionaire, Alwaleed bin Talal, who controls an influential number of voting shares in the Fox News parent company. We noted that Alwaleed had prompted the Fox News Channel to dramatically alter its coverage of the Muslim riots in France after he admitted calling the channel to complain.

“Truth of the matter is, for the last 25 years, it’s been a personal hobby of mine to find the Makom Hamikdash, the exact location where the Jewish Temple once stood,” he told Breaking Israel News. Inspired by the teachings of Maimonides, Moskoff has met with world renowned rabbinical and archaeological authorities in Israel as he comes closer to finding the Lost Ark. The Ark was last seen in 586 BCE when the Babylonians conquered Jerusalem and destroyed the First Temple. What happened to the Ark remains unknown until today.

When asked about the importance of his quest, Moskoff explained his belief that in today’s world, with the worsening geopolitical situation surrounding Jerusalem, finding the Ark would ‘validate and strengthen the Jewish connection and rights to Jerusalem.’ “I discovered that when talking about the Ark, you can’t not talk about what is happening in Israel today. Every day, Jerusalem and the Temple Mount are in the headlines. By discovering the Ark and even other Temple related artifacts, we can have an effect on the validation of the Jewish connection to Jerusalem,” he said.

Backed by a historical and biblical understanding, Moskoff is narrowing the gap between an important part of Jewish history and modern times. “The idea is to raise awareness and inspire people. This is just the beginning for Israel,” he said. “In the big picture of Jewish history, things are speaking up and coming to a close. We can’t deny it. Things are happening now to the Jewish people and I want to tell people, show people, that there is a great and holy future for Israel.”

In his speech, he talked of the 50 years of relations between Germany and Israel. Referencing themes addressed in Shalev's work, the Foreign Minister recalled that “war, grief, loss, peace, identity and above all home and the loss of home” characterized the starting point of relations between Germany and Israel. "By no means can we take for granted, therefore, the fact that we can celebrate 50 years of diplomatic relations 70 years after the liberation of Ausschwitz. For us Germans especially, that seems miraculous."

It was possible, Steinmeier said, only because “the country of the persecuted reached out a hand to the country of the persecutors – hesitant at first, and then determined.” Furthermore, Germany had acknowledged and continued to acknowledge both its historical guilt and its current responsibility with respect to Israel’s right to exist. Today, the Minister said, the two countries were linked in close partnership and deep friendship. Steinmeier went on to describe it as “a friendship that gives us a lot to share, that demands our solidarity when Israel’s security is threatened, but that also allows us to speak frankly with one another.”

Israeli Ambassador to Germany Yacov Hadas Handelsman then also spoke about the history of German Israeli relations, saying that after emerging “from the darkest hell in history” they had developed almost unbelievably. He hoped that the series of discussions would give revealing insights into the way of life and everyday situation in the two countries.

The BBC protested that they'd been doing their best on this front for many years but - after giving themselves a lacerating self-flagellation - they promised to try even harder. I am genuinely baffled. Do their Lordships actually watch BBC TV news? What level of female representation would they deem acceptable? An absolute monopoly? If you keep half an eye on the numbers of men and women reporters/presenters on BBC TV news (I do), you can't fail to notice that men are becoming, increasingly, the disappeared.

I would bet good money that female presenters actually outnumber males now on the news department's payroll; but, even in senior reporting positions, it is not uncommon to see an unbroken succession of women reporting from war-zones, Presidential press conferences and economic forums. Feminists have been advancing an organised front on the media for more than 40 years. In the early 1970s, "Women in Journalism" became one of the earliest organisations to promote the career interests of ambitious women. It was very quickly followed by "Women in Television", "Women in Publishing", "Women in Advertising" and so on.

It's more than 20 years since a young guy who had just graduated from a media studies course told me that he was certain that his sex put him at a disadvantage in applying for jobs with the BBC (he went on to make award-winning films as an independent).

Not long later, a woman who was a senior executive at Gannett (US publishing giant) told me that women like her operated an unspoken code that put Ivy League white boys at the back of the queue for jobs.

To my certain knowledge, many women in senior positions in the media and PR have actively favoured women for appointments and promotions, justifying their sexist prejudices as some form of recompense or balancing for the past exclusions of women (as if boys born today share an ineradicable collective and personal guilt for those alleged and deeply questionable crimes). At the same time, men have been falling over themselves for almost half a century to apologise for being men and rush to help women and marginalise themselves.

If Greece goes, will Portugal be next? And if they go, why not Spain, Italy, and who knows who else? These doubts don’t just fester; they lead to capital flight that in turn aggravates the very doubts that prompted them. Greece’s precarious position in the eurozone long ago led to a withdrawal of funds from the Greek banks. The resulting illiquidity, in turn, pulled Greece into a near-fatal economic crisis. A more interventionist European Central Bank under Mario Draghi averted a crash, but the crisis hasn’t ever fully gone away. Several bailouts have been little more than patch-ups to get Greece through a few months at a time.

Anybody who does the Greek debt arithmetic (and it sometimes seems that in Berlin nobody actually does) knows that it cannot repay its external debts, now around 170% of GDP, without a level of pain that is simply beyond the tolerance of democratic societies. The leftwing party Syriza is no anomaly; it is telling the financial and political truth in the runup to Sunday’s elections, however unpleasant that may be to politicians in Berlin and Brussels.

Debt relief will not solve Greece’s economic problems, but it would open the door to a solution. The real solution involves hard work by young Greeks to open new businesses and find new export markets, and for Europe as a whole to launch an investment-led recovery by building a new, smart, 21st-century European infrastructure – one that could, for example, enable Greece’s fabled Mediterranean sunshine and wind to provide some of Europe’s low-carbon energy needs. The first step is to stop the pain.

The West African country wants to fight Boko Haram with a regional military force. “Ghana can provide troops for this”, explained Mahama. The plans for the operation will be discussed at the next summit of the African Union. Merkel promised financial support for the planned troop deployment, and spoke of “terrible, brutal crimes that are being conducted against the civilian population in Nigeria, but also in Cameroon.”

However, there were no current plans for a direct military intervention by the European Union, Merkel said. Since the beginning of the year, Boko Haram has brought large areas of northern Nigeria under its control and has penetrated into neighbouring Cameroon. On January 4, militia fighters took over a military base of the Multinational Task Force in Baga, in the Nigerian state of Borno.

As in the past, the new “scramble for Africa” threatens not only to bring terrible suffering to the African masses but also to intensify conflicts between the imperialist powers. Early last week, an article in the political weekly Die Zeit left no doubt that the German elites are increasingly prepared to engage in confrontation with their nominal allies in order to pursue their own geo-strategic and economic interests. Under the headline “We need more Germany in Africa”, the paper asked: “Is it really enough to just contribute enough so that Paris is not annoyed? Certainly not, and there are good reasons for a stronger engagement in Africa on our own part.”

Hamas has obviously interpreted these two decisions – by the EU court and the ICC – as a green light to proceed with its plans to eliminate Israel. Hamas is convinced that these decisions will bring it closer to achieving its goal. That is why Hamas has now begun recruiting thousands of Palestinian youths to its new "Liberation Army" in the Gaza Strip.

The Hamas campaign, entitled, "Vanguards of Liberation," is aimed at recruiting young men whose ages range between 15 and 21. So far, the Hamas recruitment program has attracted hundreds of youths from the Gaza Strip who, according to the movement, will form the nucleus for the new "Liberation Army." The new recruits will undergo military training at the hands of members of Hamas's armed wing, Izaddin al-Qassam. The main goal of the "Liberation Army" is, of course, to prepare for war against Israel, according to Hamas spokesman Mushir al-Masri.

"The main purpose of these training camps is to prepare an army for the liberation of Palestine and its holy sites in the near future," he said. "The large turnout is a sign that our people have endorsed the option of resistance against the occupation, especially in the aftermath of our recent victories."

“They are intended to be carried out until end-September 2016 and will in any case be conducted until we see a sustained adjustment in the path of inflation," he added, meaning the package will amount to at least €1.1 trillion. Mr Draghi’s package of asset purchases, including bonds issued by national governments and EU institutions such as the European Commission, is intended to boost the eurozone’s flagging economy and to ward off the spectre of deflation.

It took a dramatic toll on the euro, which dropped to an 11-year low against the dollar at $1.14.

Greece will not be eligible for the new bond purchases until July, under existing rules and would have to continue with its austerity programme to qualify. Germany fears that by lowering the yield on sovereign bonds, the ECB’s QE will lower the cost of government borrowing for indebted eurozone members such as France and Italy.

This truth is that Islam has literally been at war with others and itself from the very beginning. Its founder, Muhammad, spent the last two decades of his life in almost constant warfare. Unlike Christ, who willingly gave up his own life to pay the penalty for the sins of others, Muhammad died taking the lives of others who would not willingly submit to Allah. This is historical fact.

Since Muhammad left no obvious heir, his followers immediately broke down into rival camps — our modern-day Sunnis and Shiites — that have been warring with each other since long before the Holy Roman Empire gave birth to what we now know as Western Civilization. Furthermore, one of the rationales for forming the Holy Roman Empire in the first place was to combat the Muslim invasion of Europe.

The first overseas war in our nation’s history was against Muslims known as the Barbary Coast Pirates, whose ambassador admitted to Thomas Jefferson they were raiding our ships because “it was their right and duty to make war upon (infidels) wherever they can be found” in the name of Muhammad. The line from the Marine’s hymn “to the shores of Tripoli” is a reference to this war. So our nation faced Islamic jihad long before we discovered Middle Eastern oil and started meddling in their affairs, contrary to the misguided view of history often espoused by Ron Paul.

There is no place in the world today where Islam dominates the culture and mankind is truly free, which is why our politically correct elites often declare Islam is in need of its own Reformation. However, what they don’t understand, because they ignore history (and thus reality) in favor of their own confirmation bias, is that violence within Islam is its Reformation.

"The Americans have taken the course of confrontation and do not assess their own steps critically at all," Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told a news conference. "Yesterday's speech by the president shows that at the centre of the (US) philosophy is only one thing: 'We are number one and everyone else has to respect that’ …It shows that the United States wants all the same to dominate the world and cannot merely be first among equals."

Relations between Russia and the United States have sunk to their lowest level since the end of the Cold War, mainly because of Moscow's confrontation with the West over the crisis in Ukraine.

To counteract the foreseeable consequences of this interference - which is provoking protests and strengthening the camp of the opposition parties - Berlin is handing out money to Greek journalists, religious representatives, and artists. This interference is targeting the Greek public to neutralize the growing demands for restitution of debts stemming from Nazi crimes.

It is also aimed at undermining the lawsuit against the Federal Republic of Germany, filed by Thessaloniki's Jewish community. The German foreign ministry is in control of the payments to network the Greek "civil society" with the German elite.

Abu Saara, 49, and a resident of eastern Jerusalem, went on to make a number of other statements inciting to violence against Jews, said the indictment. Abu Saara also allegedly said, “The time has come to go to war with you, the time has come to kill you. And we, with God’s help, will destroy you. We, the Muslims, the correct ones, the faithful and the soldiers of the Islamic caliphate, will arrive to the land to free it from your soiling, and today this is close by.”

He continued, “So go on and do what you want for now,” and, “Now you have the power,” while returning more than once to the idea and terminology of slaughtering Jews, according to the indictment. He delivered the speech on November 28 in the al-Kabali Mosque and was met with calls of support from the worshipers attending.

The House speaker's office said Netanyahu will be invited to speak February 11 before a joint session of Congress. The invitation comes as lawmakers weigh legislation, supported by Republicans and some Democrats, to tee up more sanctions against Iran in case negotiations fail to curtail the country's nuclear enrichment program.

Obama vowed Tuesday during his State of the Union address to veto any such legislation. But Boehner signaled he wants Netanyahu to explain the stakes of the debate, as he pledged to press ahead with the legislation.

“Prime Minister Netanyahu is a great friend of our country, and this invitation carries with it our unwavering commitment to the security and well-being of his people,” Boehner said in a statement. “In this time of challenge, I am asking the prime minister to address Congress on the grave threats radical Islam and Iran pose to our security and way of life.”

Asked about the invite, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest described it as a breach of typical protocol since the White House wasn't involved. But he said the administration would reserve judgment until they speak with the Israelis. Critics of Obama and his foreign policy say the president has failed to keep close ties to Israel, a long-time US ally and a key country in providing Middle East stability. Among their concerns is that the Obama administration has not done enough to curb Iran's suspected pursuit of a nuclear weapon.