Revolution and oppression in the Arab world

When the first revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt occurred, the initial responses from Israel appeared distinct from those in the West. While European and American reactions were enthusiastic, a whiff of skepticism, if not...

Incisive News Analysis From Jerusalem

"The Prime Minister's Talk" Prime Minister Netanyahu gave a talk in the Knesset last night, in recognition of the 107th anniversary of the death of Theodore Herzl, father of the Jewish State. This talk is widely...

The Gaza Flotilla and International Law

http://www.hoover.org/publications/policy-review/article/86476 On may 31, 2010, in defense of a naval blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip, Israel seized control of the Mavi Marmara in international waters, detained the passengers, and towed the ship to the...

The Big Split in the Revolutionary Islamist Movement: Sunni and Shia Blocs Emerge

http://rubinreports.blogspot.com/2011/08/big-split-in-revolutionary-islamist.html A development of huge importance is happening in the Middle East, equivalent perhaps to the Sino-Soviet conflict’s effect on the Cold War era: the division of revolutionary Islamists into separate Sunni and Shia camps. Of...

At a time when so much attn on Iranian threats against Israel: Iran has...

US sponsorship of the Shah, 1953-1979 & US tacit support of the Saddam Hussein's war on Iran, 1980-1988, are ingrained in all levels of Iranian education. http://www.ajc.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=ijITI2PHKoG&b=849241&ct=2903231 http://www.theislam101.com/item.php?articleid=263&topicId=17 http://www.amazon.com/War-Curriculum-Iranian-Schoolbooks/dp/0874951410 http://www.impact-se.org/research/iran/index.html

A Palestinian civil intifada

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=1096 The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) published its December 2011 report on Monday, contending that in 2016 Jews will become a minority between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. According to the...

Saudi Ready To Acquire Nukes

by-line: http://www.menewsline.com/ Saudi Arabia was said to be planning to acquire nuclear weapons within weeks of Iran's development of an atomic bomb. A British daily has asserted that Riyad was preparing for a nuclear crisis...

Studying Antisemitism on Campus

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/1085/studying-antisemitism-on-campus A very gallant Dr. Charles Asher Small just delivered an important lecture at the 92nd St Y. in New York. Yes, this is the same Dr. Small who, in 2004, founded the Institute for...

Yasir Arafat Is Still Dead and We Know Who Really Did Him In

http://spme.net/articles/8773/2/5/Yasir-Arafat-Is-Still-Dead-and-We-Know-Who-Really-Did-Him-In.html Yasir Arafat is still dead. True, he was once alive. I sat across from him in his Gaza office, for example. And he even had a copy of my history of the PLO on...

Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad

http://www.randomhouse.com/book/192601/a-lethal-obsession-by-robert-s-wistrich In this unprecedented work two decades in the making, leading historian Robert S. Wistrich examines the long and ugly history of anti-Semitism, from the first recorded pogrom in 38 BCE to its shocking and...