The Saudi Arms Deal

On August 13, 2010, several reports appeared in the US media on plans by the Obama administration to sell arms to Saudi Arabia valued at $60 billion over a period of ten years. The reported deal...

WikiLeaks Reveals Pakistan’s Intel Deceit

http://www.newsmax.com/KenTimmerman/WikiLeaks--Afghan--War--Pakistan--InterServices--Intelligence--Service--ISI--Taliban--Ron--Paul--Kucinich--Obama--Bush/2010/07/29/id/366037 The explosive revelations of the “Afghan War Diary” released by WikiLeaks this week reveal several open secrets that have been well known to those who have closely followed this war for many years. First and...

The Mideast Reality Outside the Oval Office President Obama’s policies remain inconsistent with on-the-ground...

When the Obama administration banned the terms Islamic extremism and jihad from US national security documents back on April 7, 2010, the United States aired out a new approach to the war against terror....

UN Experts Fault Iran on Discrimination; Iran Cites Durban II Participation

Contact for interviews: media1@unwatch.org Tel: +41.79.332.8106 +41.79.332.8106 Geneva, August 4 - UN experts faulted Iran today for discriminating against women and ethnic minority groups, during a periodic review of the country's record in Geneva. Members of...

Reports which distort Israeli reality…About Israel’s “Peace Partners”

1 Fatah's Intentions.. The standard reports in the media portray Machmud Abbas and the Fatah as peace partners for Israel in the current middle east negotiations. Rarely do we find any news reports which quote a...

Antisemitism and Introspection

Robert s. Wistrich This year, Tisha B'Av (the annual Jewish fast day commemorating the destruction of both the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem) once again reminded us of the dangers of “gratuitous hatred” without...

EDITORIAL: CANADA INVOKES SEMA AGAINST IRAN

I had never heard of the Special Economic Measures Act until Liberal Member of Parliament and Former Minister of Justice Irwin Cotler, who is the chair of the Responsibility to Prevent Coalition started...

JINSA EXPRESSES CONCERN OVER THE U.S. TRAINING OF PALESTINIAN ARMY

JINSA has long expressed concern about military skills being transmitted by the U.S. to a Palestinian Authority military force while the Palestinian government remains openly hostile to Jewish sovereignty in the Middle East. The...

Daniel Schorr: An Interview for the Jewish Student Press Service on the CIA in...

REPUBLISHED IN MEMORY OF DANIEL SCHORR, WHO DIED THIS WEEK AT THE AGE OF 93 Oct. 21, 1976 WYNNEWOOD, PA (Interview followed Schorr's revelation of confidential CIA files to the US Congress) I entered the Rabbi’s study at...

Russian and Chinese Support for Tehran: Iranian Reform and Stagnation

Spring 2010, pp. 63-72 http://www.meforum.org/2690/russian-chinese-support-for-iran Recent years have witnessed the rise of irregular but frequently intensive opposition to U.S. global preeminence by Russia and China. In their own ways, and in pursuit of their own...