Monthly Archives: June 2014

Second Front Opens in the Sunni-Shia War

http://www.meforum.org/4728/second-front-opens-in-the-sunni-shia-war The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) organization swept into the city of Mosul in western Iraq last week. No one has any right to be surprised. ‬ ISIL has held a large...

UN Elevates Syria: Business as Usual

http://blog.unwatch.org/index.php/2014/06/18/un-elevates-syria-business-as-usual/ Mr. President, what the Commission of Inquiry has just described is a living hell. Faced with continuing reports of Syria’s mass murder, torture, rape, and gassing of civilians by chemical weapons, how is the...

Weekly Commentary: Mahmoud Abbas Fails the Litmus Test

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=64100 Has Mahmoud Abbas turned the corner? There is a simple litmus test. If and when Israel gets its hands on the terrorists who kidnapped our three boys. And the terrorists are still alive. What does Mahmoud Abbas say...

UNRWA REFORM INITIATIVE: Address to Temple Emanuel in Cleveland on June 18, 2014

At a time when the Arab Israeli war continues into its seventh decade, the most persistent issue of that war remains the "right of return", the demand of Arab refugees to take back villages...

READ THE HAMAS CHARTER

*** Hamas Charter (1988) The Charter of Allah: The Platform of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) "In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate You are the best community that has been raised up for...

Harold & Gayle Berman, Doublelife: One Family, Two Faiths and a Journey of Hope

Longhill Press, New York, New York 2013 REVIEWED BY DAVID BEDEIN, SOCIAL WORKER AND JOURNALIST. Doublelife: One Family, Two Faiths and a Journey of Hope is a compelling and entertaining memoir of two newly observant Jews...

President Peres gives President-Elect Rivlin advice he himself should

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=64015 "you have to consider your every word and every action" - this from the man who has made every effort to promote the standing of Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority in the world...

Erakat’s “Palestinian victims” are dead Palestinian terrorists

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=64019 "Cold-Blooded Murder" or a War on Terror?Lt. Col. (ret.) Jonathan D. HaleviJerusalem Issue Briefs Vol. 14, No. 18 June 9, 2014http://jcpa.org/article/cold-blooded-murder-or-a-war-on-terror/ -Saeb Erekat, the chief Palestinian negotiator, claims that all the Palestinian "victims" since the...

Will the West Fund Hamas?

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4346/hamas-western-aid Less than a week after its inauguration, the Hamas-Fatah unity government is already facing its first crisis as it remains unclear which party will pay salaries to tens of thousands of Hamas employees in...

How Iran Gains From Assad Victory

Interviewee: Michael Young, Opinion Editor, Daily StarInterviewer: Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting EditorJune 5, 2014http://www.cfr.org/syria/iran-gains-assad-victory/p33064 With Syrian president Bashar al-Assad claiming a sweeping electoral victory, one party set to gain in influence is Iran, says Lebanon-based expert...