Monthly Archives: July 2012

http://www.algemeiner.com/2012/07/15/top-security-experts-concerned-over-obama-freezing-israel-out-of-counter-terror-conferences/ Top security experts in Israel are worried about the Obama Administration’s attitude to radical Muslim governments in the region and by Obama’s willingness to freeze Israel out of two recent high-level counter-terror conferences. Israel...

On July 11, 2012. during a special session of the Middle East Subcommittee of the US House Foreign Affairs committee, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported that Jonathan Schanzer of the Foundation for Defense of...

http://spme.net/articles/8773/2/5/Yasir-Arafat-Is-Still-Dead-and-We-Know-Who-Really-Did-Him-In.html Yasir Arafat is still dead. True, he was once alive. I sat across from him in his Gaza office, for example. And he even had a copy of my history of the PLO on...

http://www.menewsline.com/ The US Congress has been investigating corruption within the Palestinian Authority, a leading beneficiary of U.S. aid. The House has heard testimony of PA corruption in 2012 under the regime of chairman Mahmoud Abbas. Witnesses...

http://www.fpri.org/enotes/2012/201207.stock.egypt.html In The Picture of Dorian Gray, the famous novel written by the Anglo-Irish author Oscar Wilde, the seemingly ageless protagonist hides a terrible secret: All of his vices have been engraved onto the face...

http://www.fpri.org/enotes/2012/201207.stock.egypt.html Raymond Stock, former Visiting Assistant Professor of Arabic and Middle East Studies at Drew University (2010-11), and Guggenheim Fellow (2007), lived in Cairo for 20 years (1990-2010). He was denied entry and deported by...

Ma’‎ariv newspaper, July 13, 2012 (p. 5) by Noam Sharvit, Nir Arnon and Arik Bender -- “ ‎The ruling in the Olmert affair will mean that no indictments will be served against senior public...

http://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/analysis/rubin-reports/rubin-reports-israel-is-in-good-shape-because-so-many-others-decided-not-to-be/2012/07/13/ The more I think about Israel’s security situation at this moment, the better it looks. Obviously, this is counter-intuitive given the media bias, academic distortions, and campaigns for sanctions of various kinds. And, of...

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3160/european-armies-recruiting-muslim-soldiers Germany is seeking to recruit more Muslims into its army: it cannot find enough native Germans to fill its ranks after it abolished the draft. German Defense Minister Thomas de Maizière announced his intention to...

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4254552,00.html The relations between Israel and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA ) have known ups and downs. It’s a story that features familiar UN politics, and most of all,...