Monthly Archives: August 2012

Palestinian Non-Governmental Organizations Network: Glory to the Egyptian Martyrs and Shame on Criminals

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=57799 08 August 2012 The Palestinian Non-Governmental Organizations Network (PNGO) condemns, in the strongest terms, the heinous crime committed by an armed group in Sinai on Sunday, 05 August 2012, the result of which 16 Egyptian...

The Fate of Syria’s Chemical and Biological Weapons

http://www.biu.ac.il/SOC/besa/docs/perspectives177.pdf EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Israel has good reason to fear that Syria’s chemical and biological weapons arsenal could fall into the wrong hands - to terrorist elements within Syria, to an even more hostile Syrian regime,...

CIA Warns Of Israeli Intel On Iran

The U.S. intelligence community has been warning against relying on information on Iran provided by Israel. A former senior CIA official has warned that Israel could be skewing intelligence as part of its campaign for...

Missile fire on Tel Aviv will unleash unprecedented Israeli response

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=5271 Former intelligence chief Amos Yadlin says Israel is under threat of only about 1,000 "effective missiles." • When missiles start falling on Tel Aviv Israel's legitimacy will drastically increase, as will our ability to...

It won’t work without the Americans

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4263870,00.html It is becoming increasingly clear that the sanctions won’t be enough to cause the Iranian government to halt its nuclear program. No one can predict exactly when or how Iran will wave the white...

Tehran Takedown: How to Spark an Iranian Revolution

http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/137803/michael-ledeen/tehran-takedown?page=show The nuclear question is at the center of most countries' Iran policies. China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States have all engaged in negotiations to convince Tehran to give up...

What the Iranian People “Really Think”… and How to Help Them

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3226/iranian-people We should be extremely suspicious of public opinion surveys that purport to reveal what Iranians -- or anyone else in totalitarian countries -- "really think." They are not going to speak openly to anyone...

It’s Not (Just) the Culture, Stupid: 4 Reasons Why Israel’s Economy Is So Strong

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/08/its-not-just-the-culture-stupid-4-reasons-why-israels-economy-is-so-strong/260610/?google_editors_picks=true # The government has learned from economic disaster, embraced high-skilled immigrants, played venture capitalist, and imported one heck of a good central banker. (Reuters) In case it wasn't clear the first time he said it, Mitt...

Brussels’s Hezbollah Blinders

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443866404577563151864043044.html When terrorists struck in Bulgaria last month, killing five Israeli tourists and a Bulgarian bus driver, Jerusalem immediately accused Hezbollah and its Iranian paymasters of the crime. Tehran and Hezbollah, as always, denied it....

The Levy Report: Reinvigorating the Discussion of Israel’s Rights in the West Bank

http://www.biu.ac.il/SOC/besa/docs/perspectives176.pdf EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The Commission to Examine the Status of Building in Judea and Samaria (the "Levy report") has drawn a flurry of overwrought criticism due to its inclusion of a section concerning the lawfulness...