Iran

The gap between dominant Western perceptions of the Middle East and the region's reality is dangerously wide. While the "Arab Spring" is celebrated as an advance for moderation and democracy, in fact the advance...

Syria Murders Hundreds; "Pro-`Arab Spring'" West Yawns or Supports Syrian Regime The situation in Syria is terrible. Hundreds of people have been shot; others arrested and tortured. And yet after weeks of demonstrations and repression...

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=1183&sec=1 l photo by Rhonda Spivak Newt Gingrich at AIPAC Conference photo by Rhonda Spivak Abe Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League with the Editor of the Winnipeg Jeiwsh Review Former Democratic Congressman (Florida),Robert Wexler photo by Rhonda Spivak PRESIDENT OBAMA: HIS CONNECTION...

A Muslim friend who I greatly respect wrote me that he doesn"t understand why I've been complaining about Obama's speeches. I suggested that the problem is he has been reading media coverage which tends to revolve...

Reading a Tom Friedman column on Bibi and Barack is to take a step into a virtual reality show, where the director, Tom Friedman, says there will be no connection to any real facts...

Lebanon staging point. Sign says "Iran's Garden" (AP) http://lennybendavid.com/2011/05/one-if-by-land-and-two-if-by-sea.html There are remarkable similarities between the Mavi Marmara flotilla in May 2010 and the Nakba marches from Lebanon, Syria and Gaza on May 15. The Israeli intelligence services...

http://www.newsmax.com/KenTimmerman/iran-israel-syria-hamas/2011/05/17/id/396681 The Iranian regime called the political leaders of Hamas and Hezbollah to Tehran last month, to work out the details of an unprecedented series of protests they wanted them to launch along Israel’s border...

"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...

http://www.danielpipes.org/ 9790/iraq-province-of-iran After American forces leave Iraq at the end of 2011, Tehran will try to turn its neighbor into a satrapy, i.e., a satellite state, to the great detriment of Western, moderate Arab, and...

By Barry Rubin May 11, 2011 http://www.gloria-center.org/ gloria/2011/05/egypt-radical- nationalist-president Amr Moussa, probably Egypt's next president, has given a comprehensive picture of his views, a foretaste of the likely policies of someone about to become the Arab world's...