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...

Are Settlements Really the Major Obstacle to Peace?

For nearly two decades, the Palestinian Authority conducted peace talks with Israel while construction in the Jewish settlements was continuing. Every now and then the Palestinian leadership would complain about the construction, but it never made a...

News Analysis: “Playing the Game”

A article yesterday (written by Sheera Frankel in the Miami Herald) said: "The Obama administration has secured pledges from senior Mideast leaders to continue peace negotiations until after next month's U.S. midterm elections, largely to...

CANADA’S MINISTER PETER KENT PROTESTED TO PA FOREIGN MINISTER ABOUT PA INCITEMENT AGAINST ISRAEL

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=468&sec=1&title=CANADA’S__MINISTER_PETER__KENT__PROTESTED_TO_PA_FOREIGN_MINISTER_ABOUT__PA_INCITEMENT_AGAINST_ISRAEL Peter Kent, Minister of State of Foreign Affairs (Americas) Photo by Rhonda Spivak. Rhonda Spivak went to Deheishe Palestinian Refugee Camp in Bethlehem on August 11, 2010 and photographed this mural of a female suicide bomber...

Incisive Middle East News Analysis

"Anti-Semitism Today" Dr. Simcha Epstein made a presentation in the on-going series on post Holocaust Anti-Semitism sponsored by the Institute for Global Affairs at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. Dr. Epstein, an author, teaches at...