Monthly Archives: August 2013

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3917/palestinians-prisoner-release The argument that the release of Palestinian prisoners boosts the standing of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and "moderate" Palestinians and facilitates the resumption of peace talks with Israel is not necessarily true. Many Palestinians...

http://www.danielpipes.org/13202/danny-danon Danon (right) is widely seen as a thorn in Netanyahu's side, as in this Ha'aretz cartoon. "Lunacy." That's how Danny Danon describes Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's decision to hand over 104 killers to the Palestinian...

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/Whose-taxpayers-fund-UNRWA-322135#_methods=onPlusOne%2C_ready%2C_close%2C_open%2C_resizeMe%2C_renderstart%2Concircled&id=I0_1375747952821&parent=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jpost.com&pfname=&rpctoken=43187279 The United Nations Relief and Work Agency is the only UN refugee agency dedicated to a single group of people. It is the only agency that designates individuals as original refugees if they lived...

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=61646 According to the common narrative, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu agreed to release a group of terrorist murderers as the "entrance fee" for talks with the Palestinians because: #1. In the absence of talks, Israel faced...

http://www.meforum.org/3566/dumb-washington Earlier today, Egypt's military government arrested former prime minister Mohammed Mursi on charges of conspiring with the terrorist organization Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood's Palestinian affiliate. That is as good as it gets in this...

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3908/ramallah-peace-process If Mahmoud Abbas does not have the power or courage to allow an Israel-based clothing shop to open branch near his residence in Ramallah, how will he ever be able to make peace with...

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2013/08/01/thanks-to-syria-timing-of-looming-iran-crisis-is-fortuitous/ As I noted yesterday, the coming months will be decisive with regard to Iran’s nuclear program. This is an issue on which everyone would prefer if crunch time were never reached. But if a...

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3907/muslim-brotherhood-radicalizing Following another night of violence in Cairo during which 72 people were killed, The New York Times accused the military led government of Abdul Fattah al Sisi of "radicalizing" the Muslim Brotherhood. "For all...

http://blog.pjvoice.com/diary/3420/releasing-murderers-for-peace-negotiations-the-fight-begins-now The impression that Israel has released 100 terrorists from jail last week, as the Arabs' term for renewing the peace negotiations, is wrong. Israel has not yet released any murderers. The reality is that...