WHY WAS CANADA’S RCMP PROMOTING AN EXTREMIST PRO-IRANIAN CONFERENCE ?
Anti-Semitic Cartoon of the website of the Islamic World Peace Forum. The Director general of this Iran Based group was scheduled to speak at the conference promoted by the RCMP.
Sayeh Hassan, pro-democracy Iranian Canadian...
The Arab Lobby: The European Component
In the early 1980s, there was a palpable concern among staffers at the
American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) of the looming rise of an
Arab-American lobby aimed at challenging the pro-Israel community. The
National Association of...
News Analysis
Lest anyone have mistakenly imagined that my last posting about hope http://israelbehindthenews.com/bin/content.cgi?ID=4180&q=1 (which certainly exists now !) signaled a whole new ballgame, with problems instantaneously diminished on all fronts, I state unequivocally that I...
News Analysis: After the US Elections
"Hope Renewed"
The Republican win in the House of Representatives and near-win in the Senate on Tuesday certainly give great hope to all of us who have been despairing of the direction the US government...
News Analysis
First, a critique of an article -- "Are US Officials Understanding and Responding to the Middle Crisis? Ya Think?" -- by Barry Rubin, director of the Gloria Center.
As to that "Ya think?" Rubin explains:...
How Has U.S. Policy Toward Hamas and the Gaza Strip Turned Around 360 Degrees?
A reader asks what I meant when I wrote:
"Should I mention the total reversal of U.S. policy on Hamas from trying to undermine that radical Islamist group's rule in the Gaza Strip to believing...
THE NETHERLANDS, THE MIDDLE EAST, AND THE 2010 PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS
The Netherlands is a fascinating test case of how Middle Eastern factors--immigration, foreign policy issues--affect European politics. These questions have become highly partisan ones, with the left side and right side of the spectrum...
Why terrorists from Yemen are trying to bomb synagogues in Chicago?
Friday afternoon, international authorities announced that they intercepted two explosive devices originating in Yemen and destined for two synagogues in Chicago. The discovery of the packages containing the bombs-the first one in England...
News Analysis
A recent column, "Just Knock It off," by Tom Friedman, writing in the NY Times. refers to Israel as a "spoiled child" for not acceding to Obama's demands for a continuation of the freeze.
Israel,...
Flying Planes into Gaza?
Paul Larudee, senior activist of the pro-Hamas movements Free Palestine (FPM) Free Gaza (FGM) and International Solidarity (ISM), told the Iranian PressTV that plans were being made to send a plane to the Gaza...