Daily Archives: May 14, 2014

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/u-s-government-contractors-attend-iran-oil-show/ At least five companies with U.S. government contracts were in Tehran last week to attend the Iran Oil Show, a several day conference that enables international corporations to hobnob with top Iranian officials and...

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=4203&sec=2&title=Does_the_IDF_really_want_the_Haredi_Orthodox_in_its_ranks As far as the army is concerned, the issue of drafting the ultra-Orthodox into the IDF cuts both ways. The “blessing”? Well, faced with the deterioration of the situation on Israel’s borders, opening a large...

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4519977,00.html A new Palestinian government will need the approval of the Hamas-dominated parliament, the Islamist movement's prime minister in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, said Wednesday. Hamas signed a reconciliation deal last month with the Palestine Liberation Organization,...

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4518128,00.html The second Newsweek article on Israel's alleged spying efforts in the US, titled "Israel’s Aggressive Spying in the US Mostly Hushed Up", embarrasses its author and sources almost more than the original piece published...

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=63827 Veteran Mideast reporter Mark Lavie, who recently returned home to Tel Aviv after two years in Cairo, advised IMRA that he gets a good laugh from reports (see below) like this. Israel's entire embassy staff...

http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/05/09/amnesty-researcher-admits-that-palestinian-eyewitnesses-often-lie/ Donatella Rovera, an Amnesty field investigator, wrote an interesting article about the challenges of fact finding in war situations. One of her main points is that eyewitnesses are often unreliable. For example: In Gaza, Lebanon, Libya,...

http://jcpa.org/article/palestinian-reconciliation-and-the-rising-power-of-hamas/ Vol. 14, No. 14 May 14, 2014 Fatah and Hamas are continuing to talk in an attempt to translate the reconciliation agreement, signed between the sides on April 23, 2014, into a series of operative...

http://www.arabnews.com/news/570476 A few weeks ago, many people in the Arab world heard a name, Joshua Teitelbaum, an Israeli senior fellow at the Dayan Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Goldman visiting associate professor at...