Posts Tagged ‘Intifada’
‘Arab Spring’ News: Libyan ‘Rebels’ Smuggling Anti-Aircraft Missiles to Gaza
Palestinians in Gaza have acquired anti-aircraft and anti-tank rockets from Libya during its six-month civil war, enlarging but not significantly improving their arsenal, Israeli officials said on Monday.
While the rebellion against Muammar Gadhafi has stirred concern abroad about the fate of Libya’s ageing chemical weapons stockpiles, Israel has no indication Hamas or other Palestinian factions have sought these, the officials said.
An anti-Libyan Leader Muammar Gadhafi rebel, holding his anti-aircraft missile in the oil town of Ras Lanuf, March 6, 2011.
Instead, Israeli officials have detected an inflow of SA-7 anti-aircraft missiles and rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs), said one official, describing an overland supply route that opened up between eastern Libya – after it fell to the rebels – and the Gaza Strip via Egypt. Read the rest of this entry »
Muslim Jew Hatred? There’s a Jihad iPhone App for That..
Or rather there was:
Apple Inc has announced that it has removed a jihad iPhone app called the “The Third Intifada” from its iPads and iPhones App Store.
“We removed this app from the App Store because it violates the developer guidelines by being offensive to large groups of people,” an Apple spokesman said in a statement.
Ynet learned Thursday that the announcement followed a request to that effect by Israeli Minister of Information and Diaspora Yuli Edelstein, who wrote a letter to Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs voicing Jerusalem’s concern about the application’s content. Read the rest of this entry »



