Daily Archives: November 14, 2012

http://sderotmedia.org.il/bin/content.cgi?ID=949&q=3 Photos: Direct hit in Netivut home, Monday morning 12.11.12, later on a direct hit in a ceramics factory in Netivot. Daniel Hagbi/Sderot Media Center It was a daunting, dismal weekend for Israel’s south, particularly for...

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/333240/us-legitimize-un-human-rights-council-three-more-years-anne-bayefsky The Obama administration was reelected today for a second three-year term to the U.N.’s top human-rights body, the Human Rights Council, with substantially fewer votes than human-rights heavyweights United Arab Emirates, Kazakhstan, Côte d’Ivoire,...

http://www.jinsa.org/fellowship-program/evelyn-gordon/palestinian-conflict-israel-not-core-middle-east-conflict#.UKHaubJmTpw As Syria's civil war drags on, it is increasingly destabilizing its neighbors. First, hundreds of thousands of refugees poured over their borders; now, violence has as well. Turkey and Syria have repeatedly exchanged deadly...

http://www.inss.org.il/publications.php?cat=21&incat=&read=10555 On October 31, 2012, China deviated from its traditional posture of shunning involvement in Middle East politics, and announced a four-step program to resolve the crisis in Syria. The initiative, however, does not include...

http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/powder-keg-in-gaza The violent blows exchanged between Israel and armed Islamist groups in Gaza over the past few weeks mark a dangerous shift. The pattern of occasional clashes established after Israel's 2008-2009 Operation Cast Lead has...

After having failed to obtain full UN membership for a Palestinian state at the UN Security Council in 2011, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) announced during his UN address on September 27,...

http://www.jwire.com.au/featured-articles/remember-remember-the-fifth-of-november/29590 Money in those post war years was not as plentiful as today and therefore “a penny for the guy” was seen and heard on every street corner as youngsters scrounged together enough pennies...

http://www.asharq-e.com/news.asp?section=1&id=31784 Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat - The leader of the Al-Akur Tribe in Sinai, Arif Abu-Akr, has revealed that the 1,200 tunnels between the borders of Egypt and Gaza Strip are working at full capacity. Abu-Akr...

http://missingpeace.eu/en/2012/11/catherine-ashton-and-the-facts-about-pisqat-zeev-and-ramot/ On Thursday EU high commissioner Catherine Ashton issued a statement in which she condemned the issuing of tenders for some 1200 new housing units in the Jerusalem neighborhoods of Pisqat Ze’ev and Ramot. Ashton labeled...