Middle East

(Over the years, JTA has hesitated to report what the Palestinian Authority conveys . Not this time.- David Bedein) A cell affiliated with Fatah’s armed wing assumed responsibility for the murder of an Israeli couple...

Palestine is a name coined by the Romans around 135 CE from the name of a seagoing Aegean people who settled on the coast of Canaan in antiquity – the Philistines. The name was...

http://www.thejewishweek.com/features/lens/northern_canada_love During a recent educational tour in Canada, Noam Bedein, director of the Sderot Media Center, an independent advocacy organization in the Negev, encountered a surprising amount of support for Israel among the members of...

Among the media’s customary Israel-bashers, reporting on Israel’s military operation this week against terrorist enclaves in the city of Jenin was predictably atrocious. Jenin had become a hub of deadly terrorism, responsible for the murder...

The Obama administration argues the extreme urgency of achieving the “Two-State Solution” as necessary to gain support from the Arab states in our conflict with the Taliban and Al Qaeda. Certainly we want any...

Israel responded forcefully early Thursday to about 20 Iranian missiles launched from Syria just after midnight local time against the Jewish state – and handed Iran a painful lesson in strategic deterrence. Israeli warplanes and...

http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_display.cfm/blog_id/50162 Lars Hedegaard, executive editor of Dispatch International and co-founder Damish and International Free Press Societies. Lars Hedegaard, executive editor of DispatchInternational in Copenhagen, published an editorial today expressing outrage about the lack of police responses to...

At an event entitled “Canadian Apartheid & Indigenous Solidarity” on March 12 at the University of Manitoba before an audience of about 50 people, Cheryl -Anne Carr, a Metis Canadian, affiliated with the Communist...

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/concoughlin/100215349/iran-is-stepping-up-its-preparations-for-war-with-israel/ Confirmation that Israeli warplanes have carried out a series of air strikes in Syria against consignments of missiles being shipped to Hizbollah in southern Lebanon has highlighted Iran's attempts to reinforce its regional allies...

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/The-Modern-Language-Association-MLA-ignores-word-pollution-337651 The Modern Language Association (MLA) whose brief is words, sentences, paragraphs, stories and narratives, has a special responsibility to lead the way in examining the effects of exposure to cradle-to-grave incitement -the abuse of...