ICSR Insight: Up to 11,000 foreign fighters in Syria; steep rise among Western Europeans

http://icsr.info/2013/12/icsr-insight-11000-foreign-fighters-syria-steep-rise-among-western-europeans/ Since ICSR published its first estimate in April, the issue of foreign fighters in Syria has become a major concern for Western governments. More reports have emerged since, though few have accurately gauged the...

A LOOK AT INTERNATIONAL SURVEY DATA ABOUT ARAB OPINION

http://www.gloria-center.org/2013/12/a-look-at-international-survey-data-about-arab-opinion/ This article evaluates Arab public opinion with the “Arab Opinion Index” by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies (ACRPS) in Doha, Qatar. The Index covers 12 Arab countries with 85 percent...

Snow and subserviance

http://popular-resistance.blogspot.com/2013/12/snow-and-subserviance.html It is snowing here in Palestine. My visitors from Gaza (a child being treated and his father) wish to go back to their family even though their wife tells us that they have no...

Middle East Mess Isn’t About Settlements

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-02/middle-east-mess-isn-t-about-settlements-.html In an interview with Charles Gati in Politico Magazine, Zbigniew Brzezinski, who served as national security adviser to Jimmy Carter, proves once again that he is a man of profound religious faith. He worships...

Black September, The PLO’s attempt to take over Jordan in 1970

http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~samuel/september.html The nature of the Arab purpose in Palestine was illumined, was indeed dramatised, by the clash between the terrorist organisations and the Jordanian government that began September 1970. Not an ideological confrontation nor the...

Why Israel Is More Secure in 2014 than in 2013

http://rubinreports.blogspot.co.il/2013/12/why-israel-is-more-secure-in-2014-than.html Articles in the Israeli media based on analysis of security in 2014 present a surprisingly optimistic assessment, though not from a U.S. perspective and still with some warnings. Most of the work is by Ron...

Report: Israel’s geostrategic status in Mideast improves

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4458449,00.html The diplomatic-security cabinet convened Tuesday in a Mossad facility for an annual report on Israel's geostrategic status in the Middle East. According to the report, Israel's status in the Middle East has improved over the...

Shia-Sunni schism: A challenge to world peace

http://dawn.com/news/1057412/shia-sunni-schism-a-challenge-to-world-peace The recent violence in Rawalpindi or the bombing of the Iranian embassy in Beirut are not the only manifestations of the intra-Muslim sectarian discord. The inability of Muslims to settle a 7th century dispute...

After surviving ‘death boat,’ Palestinians locked up in Egypt

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2013/Nov-20/238373-after-surviving-death-boat-palestinians-locked-up-in-egypt.ashx#axzz2lGeNfv5d A Palestinian passenger, hoping to cross into Egypt, sits behind a fence as she waits at the Rafah crossing between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip November 19, 2013. (REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa)ALEXANDRIA, Egypt: After...

Palestinians From Syria: The Worst Treatment of All

http://blogs.cfr.org/abrams/2013/11/19/palestinians-from-syria-the-worst-treatment-of-all/?cid=otr-partner_site-Israel_hayom There are over 500,000 Palestinian “refugees” in Syria, as counted by the UN agency handling Palestinian “refugees,” the UN Relief and Works Agency or UNRWA. The quotation marks are especially apt in this case,...