Monthly Archives: May 2012

Martin Kramer: Anyone Who Doesn’t See the Coming Crisis with Egypt Is…

http://rubinreports.blogspot.com/2012/05/martin-kramer-anyone-who-doesnt-see.html Martin Kramer is one of the world's best Middle East experts. Here is his latest dispatch. Remember this is what I've been saying since January 2011 and even October 2010. Regarding Martin's last sentence,...

Unseen Consequences of a Palestinian Arab State

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/unseen-consequences-of-a-palestinian-arab-state/ On my first night in Israel, August 31, 1970, my 20th birthday, I arrived at the campus of Hebrew University, to participate in a study group that met every Thursday night at the Lauterman...

Peres on eve of state visits abroad: Lauds Abbas & Fayad Ignores their schools-...

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/peres-on-eve-of-state-visits-abroad-lauds-abbas-fayad-ignores-their-schools-to-whom-is-he-accountable/ This month, Israel’s President, Shimon Peres, travels to Canada and to the United States. Israel’s president is not supposed to make political statements nor engage in diplomatic forays. Israel’s presidency is supposed to be largely a...

If the Palestinians could know what Koby has achieved

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/if-the-palestinians-could-know-what-koby-has-achieved/ I’ve just returned from the 11th memorial service for Koby Mandell with one wish: that I could write in Arabic. Koby was killed at the age of 13, with his friend Yosef Ish-Ran, while they...

Israeli Attack on Iran Won’t Follow the American Script

http://www.jinsa.org/fellowship-program/jinsa-fellows/israeli-attack-iran-wont-follow-american-script "Credible experts," wrote New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof in March, "overwhelmingly" view an Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear facilities as "a catastrophically bad idea," deeming the benefits uncertain and the consequences dire: An...

Is Islam Innately Evil? Is Islam Innately Good? Why This Debate is A Waste...

http://rubinreports.blogspot.com/2012/05/is-islam-innately-evil-is-islam.html We all know that the number of Muslims who explicitly put forward a systematically coherent moderate theology of Islam is very small. We also know that radical Islamists pretend to be moderates and fool...

Google Street View in Israel: Tourists Vs. Terrorists?

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=2455&sec=3&title=Google_Street_View_in_Israel:_Tourists_Vs._Terrorists Google Street View, launched five years ago in the United States and has since then expanded to Europe, Australia, Asia and parts of Africa, has finally made its way to the Middle East. Israel...

Why did Breira Implode: Rabbi Arnold Jacob Wolf’s Refusal to Take Funds from a...

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/why-did-breira-implode-rabbi-arnold-jacob-wolfs-refusal-to-take-funds-from-a-foreign-government/ For some reason, some bloggers have seen fit of late to attack the integrity of the late Chicago Rabbi, Arnold Jacob Wolf, blaming him for having some kind of unethical and manipulative influence on...

What the Palestinians Want

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3049/what-palestinians-want The Palestinians want the US to endorse all their demands and force Israel to give them everything. Palestinians are reminded almost every day that the US, which has been providing them with billions of...

The Muslim Brotherhood and Washington: Courtship and Its Discontents

http://www.fpri.org/enotes/2012/201204.tadros.muslim-brotherhood.html Middle East Media Monitor is an FPRI E-Note series, designed to review once a month a current topic from the perspective of the foreign language press. These articles will focus on providing FPRI’s readership...