Ideologies

Hezbollah Deputy Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem said that Bir Al-Abed explosion was part of a scheme targeting the resistance and its people and the most beneficiary of the blast is the system that serves the Israeli project.

Israeli regime has used a Turkish military base to launch one of its recent airstrikes against Syria from the sea. Israel has been under scrutiny since last week, when it was reported to be responsible for a July 5 depot attack in Latakia.

A joint committee of Syria's foreign-backed opposition leaders along with some number of Turkish and Qatari intelligent officers have met and conferred with Israeli officials.

Marking 9 Years of the International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion "On the Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory by Israel", PLO's Negotiations Affairs Department issued a new fact sheet entitled "The Barrier to Peace: Israeli Annexation Wall and Settlements Despite International Opposition." The International Court of Justice (ICJ) Opinion on the Wall and its unimplemented recommendations for the International Community are a reminder of the Culture of Impunity that has allowed Israel to be treated as a State above the Law.

Egyptian security forces arrested Morsi and the head of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) and another of the movement's top leaders on July 3, an FJP official and security sources said, after the army toppled Mohamed Morsi from the presidency.

Grown children in China must visit their parents or potentially face fines or jail, a new law that came into effect on Monday says. China's new "Elderly Rights Law" deals with the growing problem of lonely elderly people by ordering adult children to visit their ageing parents. The law says adults should care about their parents "spiritual needs" and "never neglect or snub elderly people".

Israeli warplanes carried out seven sorties over the Gaza Strip late Sunday and early Monday firing missiles at various locations in Deir al-Balah, Khan Younis and Rafah without causing any injuries but only damage to property, according to local sources.

An Israeli security guard has shot dead a Jewish visitor in al-Quds mistaking him for a Palestinian, because he shouted “God is the Greatest” in Arabic.

A United Nations human rights body accused Israeli forces of mistreating Palestinian children, including by torturing those in custody and using others as human shields. Palestinian children arrested by (Israeli) military and police are systematically subject to degrading treatment, and often to acts of torture, are interrogated in Hebrew, a language they did not understand, and sign confessions in Hebrew in order to be released.

Japan’s biggest bank, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc., agreed to pay $250 million to the state of New York to settle claims it transferred billions of dollars for countries facing U.S. sanctions including Iran, Sudan and Myanmar. Mitsubishi Bank is the largest shareholder in New York-based Morgan Stanley (MS) and owns San Francisco-based lender UnionBanCal Corp. The company was the world’s biggest bank when it was created in 2005 through the merger of Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group Inc. and UFJ Holdings Inc.

Communications satellite services provider Intelsat has announced the suspension of its services to the channels launched from Iran as the West's campaign, lead by Israel and USA, against free speech intensifies.

Indian Muslim leaders issued a joint statement condemning Israeli President Shimon Peres' Islamophobic and racist remarks whiIe in India. The statement said that tiny but highly arrogant Israel should realize that it is committing a mockery of democratic principles by suggesting policies to a country which is 200 times its population. The leaders stated that Israel should stop day-dreaming that it can continue to overlord the Middle East thinking that it can forever rely on the blind American support because the Middle East’s sand is shifting fast and even Israel’s American allies are now saying that a decade from now Israel may not exist. As the only remaining apartheid regime in the world, Israel is destined to disappear from the map of the world, sooner or later like the apartheid regime in South Africa. Muslims leaders advises Israel to make peace with its neighbours, give Palestinians their inalienable rights, return the occupied lands and stop its criminal siege of Gaza Strip and equally illegal settlements in the West Bank.