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Editor’s Special Report: Behind the Scenes At the Ha’aretz Peace Conference and My Shift...

www.winnipegjewishreview.com Before I begin describing what I encountered at the Ha’aretz Peace Conference, let me begin by explaining that some 25 years ago, at the...

Hamas: Attempts to demilitarize Gaza “worthless”

Hamas: Attempts to demilitarize Gaza 'worthless' Published yesterday (updated) 30/08/2014 22:36 http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=724364 GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- The Hamas movement said Saturday that any attempts to disarm Palestinian...

PA to pay Hamas employees in Gaza

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=64772   BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- The Palestinian Authority will pay Hamas civil servants in Gaza on Wednesday, ending a months-long salary crisis following the announcement of...

PSR post ceasfire poll of Palestinians: Haniyeh 61% Abbas 32%., Hamas 46% Fatah 31%...

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=64783   "As expected, and as we saw in previous instances during and immediately after Israeli wars with Hamas, findings show a spike in the popularity...

Former MK: Treat UNRWA as a Hostile Palestinian Organization

Former MK Dr. Einat Wilf argued, in a column that appeared in Israel Hayom Sunday, that it is necessary to call the bluff of...

Iran’s Threats to “Arm the West Bank” Must Be Taken Seriously

http://jcpa.org/irans-threats-must-be-taken-seriously/ Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) announced on August 24 that it had shot down an Israeli reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) over its...

[Close but no cigar]An Nahar: American project for Security Council resolution to make Gaza...

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=64765 [Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA: "any process to resolve the situation in Gaza in a permanent and meaningful manner must ultimately lead to the establishment of...

Weekly Commentary: Double cross at the UN? Security Council Resolution Indefinitely Postponed

Here's the timeline: Immediately before and at the time that the ceasefire was announced, Israelis were talking about a United Nations Security Council Resolution being issued this...

The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the Military Wing of Fatah, Is Officially Returning to Armed...

The official reestablishment of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades should serve as a red light regarding the validity of a future undertaking by Mahmoud Abbas...

Hamas’ Psychological Military Strategies against Israel

http://jcpa.org/article/hamas-psychological-military-strategies-israel/ Institute for Contemporary Affairs  Founded jointly with the Wechsler Family Foundation Vol. 14, No. 26    August 7, 2014 Hamas, a Palestinian Islamist resistance organization, openly states...