Daily Archives: September 18, 2013

http://www.thenational.ae/world/syrian-army-defector-tells-of-dozens-of-chemical-attacks Amman // A senior army officer and chemical-weapons specialist who defected from Bashar Al Assad’s forces says he was ordered by top regime officials to use poison gas in attacks on rebel-held areas. “I am...

Officials said the sudden reversal by President Barack Obama, who pressured Israel and American Jews to support an attack on Syria, suggested that the administration was pursuing a reconciliation with Iran. They said Teheran...

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=3813&sec=1&title=EDITOR%27S_REPORT_FROM_JERICHO-20_YEARS_AFTER_OSLO:_THE_REFUGEE_CAMP,_CASINO,_CALIPH_AND_UNKNOWN_PALACE As my Arab driver Faisal from East Jerusalem drove through the entrance to Jericho this past winter, I reminded myself that this oasis was the first city that came under the Palestinian Authority when...

In Jerusalem on July 29th, I met with Colonel Mordachi Ba-Ron now 84, to discover the roots of the Arab refugee issue. Mr Ba-Ron was a platoon and company commander in the Givatti Brigade...

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=3625&sec=2&title=Editor%27s_Report:_Trapped_in_a__Bethlehem_Gift_Shop __ I spent a day in Bethlehem in the Palestinian territories in January this past winter with a Palestinian driver who defined himself as a "a Muslim Arab who came from a Christian family...

http://www.matthiaskuentzel.de/contents/sartling-revelations-from-an-iranian-smuggling-case-in-hamburg I rarely attend trials, but this one is special. On July 24, 2013, the main hearing in the case of German businessman Rudolf M. and Iranian-Germans Gholamali K., Kianzad K., and Hamid Kh. opened at...

http://www.jewishpolicycenter.org/4061/israel-strategic-challenges Israel will face a complicated and challenging strategic landscape in the years to come. This, of course, could have been said at any point since 1948. Ever since the Zionist idea took the shape...

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=11935 The Palestinian Authority has yet to form the political infrastructure that would allow it to reach a permanent peace agreement with Israel, Brig. Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser, director-general of the Strategic Affairs Ministry, said...

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3979/unrwa-dilemma The Palestinian people, according to a recent study by the Jerusalem Institute of Justice, have received per capita, adjusted for inflation, 25 times more aid than did Europeans to rebuild war-torn Western Europe under...

(By popular demand) TRANSCRIPT: CAMP JIHAD: INSIDE UNRWA SUMMER CAMP SEASON, 2013 http://israelbehindthenews.com/bin/content.cgi?ID=5666&q=1 Narrator: The United Nations Relief and Works Agency, also known as UNRWA, serves 5 million descendants of Arab refugees from the 1948 Arab-Israel...