Monthly Archives: August 2012

Open Letter to Oded Revivi Mayor of Efrat, Israel

Dear Oded, This morning, Prime Minister Netanyahu, sitting next to you at the Aseh Chayil School in Efrat , made the following statement: PM Netanyahu: "Efrat and Gush Etzion will always be part of the State...

The truth about ISM

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=5641 The family of Rachel Corrie, who was crushed by an army bulldozer during a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Gaza in 2003, filed a civil suit against the State of Israel for their daughter's death. This...

Illegal Arab building defies Supreme Court ruling

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=282825 The illegal “building intifada” being waged by the Palestinian Authority on state lands in Area C of Judea and Samaria, (the West Bank), has become the latest battleground for the radical Left in conjunction...

Implementation of the NPT Safeguards : Agreement and relevant provisions of Security Council resolutions...

This report of the Director General to the Board of Governors and, in parallel, to the Security Council, is on the implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement1 and relevant provisions of Security Council resolutions...

Morsi’s just not that into Iran

http://mideast.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/08/30/morsis_just_not_that_into_iran_0 Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had high hopes for the visit to Tehran by new Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi. His trip on Thursday for the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit might have been brief -- his...

The Geography of Iranian Power by Robert D. Kaplan

http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/geography-iranian-power-robert-d-kaplan Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from Robert D. Kaplan's new book, The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate , which will be...

Hamas hopeful about future with Morsy

http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/hamas-hopeful-about-future-morsy After last month's attacks in Sinai that killed 16 Egyptian security officers, questions have loomed over President Mohamed Morsy’s ability to control militancy in the peninsula, which is often held to be connected to...

Egypt, Hamas devise plan to secure borders, says report

http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/egypt-hamas-devise-plan-secure-borders-says-report Egyptian officials and senior figures in the Hamas movement, which controls the Gaza Strip, have devised plans to preempt any attacks similar to the 5 August attack in Rafah which killed 16 Egyptian border...

HOW RACHEL CORRIE’S DEATH WAS MISREPORTED: A TALE OF TWO PICTURES

Reprinted from 2003. Published in Makor Rishon and in the Jerusalem Post (2003). A news story which shocked the world this week dealt with the crushing of American citizen Rachel Corrie by an IDF bulldozer,...

How Many Millionaires Live in the “Impoverished” Gaza Strip?

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3308/gaza-millionaires The world often thinks of the Gaza Strip, home to 1.4 million Palestinians, as one of the poorest places on earth, where people live in misery and squalor. But according to an investigative report published...