Iran

www.menewsline.com The Hamas regime in the Gaza Strip has been directed by Hizbullah on the use of tunnels for missile and rocket fire toward Israel. Palestinian sources said the Hamas military was directed by Hizbullah and...

http://www.gloria-center.org/2013/06/the-wests-new-syrian-war/ One day people will ask how the United States and several European countries became involved in mass killings, genocide, corruption, arms smuggling, and the creation of another anti-Western and regionally destabilizing government. Even if...

http://www.gloria-center.org/2013/06/how-to-understand-islamism-read-what-its-leaders-really-say/ To read Yusuf al-Qaradawi’s 1984 book, Islamic Education and Hasan al-Bana, is to get an Islamic education. Nobody should be allowed to talk about Islam or political Islamism without having read this or similar...

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3756/turkish-demonstrations Turkey, although nominally part of the West, is in most ways culturally closer to the Middle East. Turks live with pent-up grievances -- as do we all -- but with virtually no way to...

http://www.menewsline.com/ Israel has begun preparing for the prospect of a victory by Syrian President Bashar Assad over Sunni rebels. The government of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has been briefed of the likelihood of an Assad victory...

http://www.meforum.org/3528/russia-middle-east-role Russia has thrown a monkey wrench into Western plans for Syria by promising to deliver its top-of-the-line S300 surface-to-air missile system to the Bashar al-Assad government. Exactly when the missiles might arrive remains unclear;...

http://www.gloria-center.org/2013/06/the-u-s-governments-disastrous-muslim-outreach-efforts-and-the-impact-on-u-s-middle-east-policy-blind-to-terror1/ Why has the U.S. government called certain Islamic groups supporters of terror in federal court, and then turned around and called these same organizations “moderates” and embraced them as outreach partners? In a number...

http://www.gloria-center.org/2013/06/obama-middle-east-policy-wrong-team-wrong-ideas/ In the Middle East, to paraphrase President Barack Obama’s mentor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, the dodo birds are coming home to roost. At this moment, the administration’s policy team consists of CIA director John Brennan,...

Israel's military has been ordering equipment to defend against massive missile and rocket strikes. All of Israel's military services plan to receive equipment to defend bases and other facilities. They said much of the...

Contents Leading from Behind: The “Obama Doctrine” and US Policy in the Middle East Sanford Lakoff Eleven Years to the Arab Peace Initiative: Time for an Israeli Regional Strategy Ilai Alon and Gilead Sher The Emergence of the Sunni...