Monthly Archives: October 2013

Is Iran a Lunatic State or a Rational Actor? Neither: It is a Rational...

http://rubinreports.blogspot.co.il/2013/10/is-iran-lunatic-state-or-rational-actor.html The United States now estimates it will take one year for Iran to get nuclear weapons; Israel says some months. Is Iran a Lunatic State or a Rational Actor? It is neither; it is a...

No Will No Way writes Michael Kuttner

http://www.jwire.com.au/featured-articles/no-will-no-way-writes-michael-kuttner/37523#more-37523 In the midst of the turmoil enveloping European Jewry during the early 1940’s, a man by the name of Jan Karski was dispatched by the Polish underground to tell western allies about the atrocities...

Egypt’s new military-backed regime has given the intelligence community a green light for...

The Washington Institute for Near East Policy asserts that Egyptian Defense Minister Abdul Fatah Sisi, in a break with policy that lasted since the 1979 peace treaty, authorized the military and intelligence community to...

What Will Happen Now with U.S. Middle East Policy?

http://www.gloria-center.org/2013/10/what-will-happen-now-with-u-s-middle-east-policy-2/ Turkish Reader: Haven’t you understood yet that the US does not care about whether a Muslim country is ruled by Sharia or by secular law as long as that regime is pro-American?...

September 2013 saw a sharp increase in the number of terror attacks: 133 attacks...

http://www.shabak.gov.il/English/EnTerrorData/Reports/Pages/Sep13report.aspx The main increase is noted in Judea and Samaria with 104 attacks, as opposed to 68 in August. Two prominent attacks occurred this month - one in Samaria and another in Judea, where two...

Minister: Hezbollah has over 200,000 rockets

http://www.timesofisrael.com/minister-hezbollah-has-over-200000-rockets/ Hezbollah has over 200,000 missiles capable of hitting any spot in the country, Home Front Defense Minister Gilad Erdan said Tuesday. According to an IDF worst-case scenario, Israel could find itself under attack from thousands...

Editor’s Report from Zurich: A Forgotten Story of a Former Synagogue and the Day...

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=3831&sec=2&title=Editor%27s_Report_from_Zurich:_A_Forgotten_Story_of__a_Former_Synagogue_and_the_Day_the_Jews_were_Expelled Last winter in February, I was in Zurich Switzerland for my first time staying at the Ambassador Hotel on my way home from Israel. I had one day there and I began wandering around...

Endangered mammal deadly blow to Palestinian farmers

http://gulfnews.com/news/region/palestinian-territories/endangered-mammal-deadly-blow-to-palestinian-farmers-1.1239361 Ramallah: A small mammal at risk of extinction might seem an unusual source of stress for humans, but an influx of rock hyrax on Palestinian farms near the Israeli segregation wall is creating an...

Why the ‘Netanyahu Doctrine’ makes sense

http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2013/10/01/why-the-netanyahu-doctrine-makes-sense/ Editor’s note: Einat Wilf is a former member of the Israeli Knesset and sat on its Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. The views expressed are the writer’s own. When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu emerged...

Video Games and Cigarettes: Syria’s Disneyland for Jihadists

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/foreign-jihadists-in-syria-favor-liberal-transit-towns-over-front-a-910092.html Atmeh looks like the set for a movie about al-Qaida. New arrivals pulling suitcases on wheels search for their emirs, Africans and Asians can be seen on the village streets, and long-haired men dressed...