Jordan

Jordan has bolstered security measures amid the threat of the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant from neighboring Iraq and Syria. Officials said the military and intelligence community have been on alert for infiltration by...

http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=2&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID= 111&FID=443&PID=0&IID=11619&TTL=Will_Palestinian_Reconciliation_Lead_to _a_Hamas_Takeover_of_the_PLO ? PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal reached an agreement in Cairo on 22 December on national reconciliation and a strategic partnership. A new temporary leadership was formed for the PLO,...

http://www.gloria-center.org/2012/10/the-powerlessness-excuse-debunking-the-claim-that-obama-could-not-have-affected-the-“arab-spring”-and-islamist-takeovers/ One argument we will be increasingly hearing is that President Barack Obama couldn’t have done anything to change events in the Middle East. This is ironic of course because when things were going well...

http://dailycaller.com/2013/08/29/verify-chemical-weapons-use-before-unleashing-the-dogs-of-war/ The Obama administration has selectively used intelligence to justify military strikes on Syria, former military officers with access to the original intelligence reports say, in a manner that goes far beyond what critics charged...

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=59472 Date: 20 December 2012 Typical polls of the Israeli public ask respondents if they would be willing to make concession "x" in exchange for peace. The problem is, of course, that concession "x" isn't in exchange...

One senior Israeli Foreign Ministry official has documented the Israel-PLO negotiations and through a second-party permitted them to be leaked to the Israeli media. The story told is a shocking indictment of Deputy Foreign Minister...

For more than 20 years after the establishment of the State of Israel, anti-Zionism was a regional phenomenon - a conflict between Arab and Jewish national movements. In the Soviet Union and in Eastern...

http://www.arlenefromisrael.info/current-postings/ On May 16, I had written about plans to establish a new Palestinian Arab city near Jericho, reportedly to be called Nu'aimah, which would house tens of thousands of residents and require the transfer...

A Muslim friend who I greatly respect wrote me that he doesn"t understand why I've been complaining about Obama's speeches. I suggested that the problem is he has been reading media coverage which tends to revolve...

Israel's three-week military operation in Gaza in December-January has raised the issue of the possible return of Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and his Fatah party to Gaza to replace the Hamas regime. The...