Monthly Archives: December 2012

FORMER WINNIPEGER NARROWLY ESCAPES INJURY WHEN MOLOTOV COCKTAILS THROWN AT BUS 143 OUTSIDE JERUSALEM

winnipegjewishreview.com A former Winnipegger who just made Aliyah to Israel narrowly escaped injury when the bus she was on was attacked by two Molotov cocktails on November 20, 2012. Nineteen year old Aliza H. and her...

Radical and Moderate Palestinians

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3492/radical-moderate-palestinians When Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas returned from New York to Ramallah and told the Palestinians that he obtained UN recognition of a Palestinian state within the pre-1967 lines -- namely, the West Bank,...

Accountability? North American Jewish Federations raise 5 million dollars to help mental health services...

As the southern region of Israel endured 2,000 aerial attacks launched by the Gaza Hamas regime. Michael Siegal, the incoming chair of the JFNA Jewish Federations of North America Board of Trustees, ascended the...

Protecting the Contiguity of Israel: The E-1 Area and the Link Between Jerusalem and...

http://jcpa.org/article/protecting-the-contiguity-of-israel-the-e-1-area-and-the-link-between-jerusalem-and-maale-adumim/ Vol. 9, No. 1 24 May 2009 The E-1 area is a part of the Israeli city of Maale Adumim, located immediately adjacent to Jerusalem. There is an E-1 construction plan that was devised in...

“Obey The Prophet, Even If He Tells You To Kill”

http://www.meforum.org/3394/qaradawi-murder Dr. Yusuf al-Qaradawi-one of the most influential Islamic clerics in the world, author of over 100 books on Muslim doctrine, head of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, and spiritual leader of the Muslim...

[A slightly alternative view] Experts: Gaza War Changed Face of Mideast Conflicts

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=59359 Experts: Gaza War Changed Face of Mideast Conflicts Dec. 9, 2012 - 10:51AM By BARBARA OPALL-ROME http://www.defensenews.com/article/20121209/DEFREG04/312090002/Experts-Gaza-War-Changed-Face-Mideast-Conflicts TEL AVIV - As quiet descended over the skies of Israel and Gaza in late November, it became...

Fatah official praises Mashaal speech in Gaza

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=59363 Sunday, December 9, 2012 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- A senior Fatah official said that Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal's speech in Gaza on Saturday was "very positive." Azzam al-Ahmad told Ma'an that Mashaal's speech reflected the contents a...

Palestine’s strangely stubborn state of mind

http://www.thecommentator.com/article/2229/palestine_s_strangely_stubborn_state_of_mind The UN vote upgrading the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) to a non-member state with observer status has done nothing to move the cause of Palestinian statehood forward. Instead, it repeats the old adage of...

Israel Has No Other Alternative But the Alternative it Has is a Good One

http://rubinreports.blogspot.co.il/2012/12/israel-has-no-other-alternative-but.html The Palestinian leadership, abetted by many Western governments, has now torn up every agreement it made with Israel. Once the efforts of two decades of negotiations-including irrevocable Israeli compromises in giving the Palestinian Authority...

Between NATO and Russia: The Pieces of Turkey’s Puzzle

http://www.inss.org.il/publications.php?cat=21&incat=&read=10697 It was one of the rare weeks since the outbreak of the Arab awakening that went well for Turkey. Between what was seen as a successful visit by Vladimir Putin to Istanbul on December...