Daily Archives: May 8, 2014

Editor’s report: Ramallah -The Back Entrance,a Whiff of Nazism and Coca -Cola

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=3978&sec=2&title=Editor%27s_report:_Ramallah_-The_Back_Entrance,a_Whiff_of_Nazism_and_Coca_-Cola Up until August 2011, I had no idea that there was a "back" entrance to Ramallah used for diplomats only, which enabled them to get in and out of Ramallah with ease and avoid...

Institute for Contemporary Affairs, founded jointly with the Wechsler Family Foundation

http://jcpa.org/article/crisis-peace-talks/ Vol. 14, No. 9 April 10, 2014 In March 2014, Saeb Erekat, the head of the Palestinian negotiating team, prepared a 65-page document that surveys the diplomatic process and offers a list of recommendations for...

Top Commander Describes Destruction of US Navy “A Main Operational Goal of IRGC”

http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13930215001597 "Conducting trainings, exercises and drills to get prepared for operational goals is always on our agenda and Americans and all the world know that one of the operational goals of the IRGC Navy is...

Recognizing Israel a ‘Red Line’ for Hamas Says Abu Marzouk

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/05/06/recognizing-israel-a-red-line-for-hamas-says-abu-marzouk GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - “Hamas will not recognize Israel,” Mousa Abu Marzouk, deputy chairman of Hamas’ political bureau, told Al-Monitor in an exclusive interview. “This is a red line that cannot be crossed,” said...

3,000 PA officers ‘to join Gaza security forces’ in unity step

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=694901 GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Arrangements are being made for some 3,000 Palestinian Authority policemen to join the Gaza government's security forces, a statement said Sunday. Abd al-Salam Siyam, secretary-general of the Gaza government's cabinet, said...

Observation: American gift to Netanyahu in Barnea piece shows they clueless

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=63737 The Americans from Kerry's team who complained to Nachum Barnea about Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu unwittingly gave the prime minister an early Israel Independence Day gift. Here is what they told Barnea, as reported in...

Text: Barnea article of Kerry team slamming Netanyahu

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=63740 Below is the headline making interview in which the Americans from Kerry's team complain to Nachum Barnea about Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. It is an early Israel Independence Day gift to Netanyahu. Here is what they...

Martin Indyk proudly clueless about Palestinian positions

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=63755 When Mahmoud Abbas made recognition of Israel as a Jewish state a red line I also first thought that it wasn't really such a serious issue for the Palestinians and thus was no more...

Lebanon (and UNRWA) continue treating Pal Syrians like dirt

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.co.il/2014/05/lebanon-and-unrwa-continue-treating-pal.html#.U2wbohXn-Ul AFP reports: Human Rights Watch and a UN refugee agency expressed concern on Tuesday that Lebanon was blocking Palestinians fleeing Syria from entering the country. UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, said it was “concerned...

“The refugees from the 1948 war are now our responsibility .

In March 1968, less than a year after the Six Day War, Rabbi Eugene Weiner addressed my senior high school class at Akiba Hebrew Academy in Philadelphia, Pa. about a moral implication of that...