Monthly Archives: August 2012

The Order for Beatings Came From Abbas’s Office

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3316/abbas-office-ordered-beatings A Palestinian commission of inquiry into the beating of Palestinian journalists and demonstrators in Ramallah has found that top officials in Mahmoud Abbas's office had ordered the assault. The discovery did not come as a...

UN Blames Israel for Gaza’s ‘Inviable’ Future

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/joseph-klein/un-blames-israel-for-gazas-inviable-future/ The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) held a conference on August 27th entitled “Will the Gaza Strip be Viable in 2020?” The conclusion, predictably, was that the Israeli government was fully responsible...

The Situation In Migron: New Housing Not Suitable

1. Israel High Court of Justice has determined that all 49 families of Migron must leave Migron with all of their personal belongingson Tuesday, Sept. 4th, 2012. Those residents include 219 children, half of...

An action plan for Syria

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/opinion/op-ed/action+plan+Syria/7129357/story.html Aleppo - Syria’s largest city, its commercial capital and an ancient heritage site - has been under relentless assault for close to a month. The siege has followed what has been called “Assad’s pattern of...

Middle East Non-Solutions

http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/08/middle_east_non-solutions.html The mantra crops up almost everywhere . "You Israelis have two simple choices ," it goes. "You can either annex all of the 'occupied territories' and grant equal Israeli citizenship to all of the...

Corrie Verdict Won’t End Delegitimization by the ISM

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/12106#.UDzQGcFlS6V Now that the Judge Oded Gershon has ruled that the death of Rachel Corrie her own fault and an accident on the part of the IDF, if anyone thinks this affects the de-legitimization efforts...

The Role of Hamas in the Formation of Global Jihadi Networks in Sinai

http://jcpa.org/article/the-role-of-hamas-in-the-formation-of-global-jihadi-networks-in-sinai/ Vol. 12, No. 18 After the Rafah attack, it was noticeable that the Egyptian government refrained from condemning the terrorists’ plan to carry out a mass-casualty attack in Israel. Indeed, senior Muslim Brotherhood figures pointed...

Debating What to Do About Iran

Almost everyone seems to agree that the Iranian nuclear weapons project should be stopped. Preferably through economic sanctions against Iran, but if that doesn't work, then military means will have to be used. But...

It’s Not Just the Temple Mount; They Even Claim Susya

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/12085#.UDeYE8GTvSs In land disputes with Israel, Arabs often claim their "historic rights" to almost every part of Israel, often repeating the mantra that their grandfathers had lived on a given tract of land "for centuries" In...

All the Ayatollah’s Men

http://nationalinterest.org/article/all-the-ayatollahs-men-7344?page=show MORE THAN thirty years after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini came to power-and two decades after his passing-the Islamic Republic remains an outlier in international relations. Other non-Western, revolutionary regimes eventually eschewed a rigidly ideological foreign...