News Flash: New Phase in War as Terrorists Cross Egypt-Israel Border, Many Dead

http://pajamasmedia.com/barryrubin/2011/08/18/news-flash-new-phase-in-war- as-terrorists-cross-egypt-israel-border-many-dead/ This isn’t just another terrorist attack - it’s a major escalation, a new phase in the Arab-Israeli conflict in two ways. First, it is the bitter fruit of the U.S-backed downfall of the government...

The Big Split in the Revolutionary Islamist Movement: Sunni and Shia Blocs Emerge

http://rubinreports.blogspot.com/2011/08/big-split-in-revolutionary-islamist.html A development of huge importance is happening in the Middle East, equivalent perhaps to the Sino-Soviet conflict’s effect on the Cold War era: the division of revolutionary Islamists into separate Sunni and Shia camps. Of...

UNRWA and Alternatives for Palestinian Refugees

http://aijac.org.au/news/article/unrwa-and-alternatives-for-palestinian-refugees There are 1.6 million people in the Gaza Strip, most of them in UNRWA (United Nations Relief Works Agency) “refugee” camps. With support from more than 35 major Western democracies, UNRWA could be dealing with...

Study Shows UN Refugee Agency Aids Terror, Not Peace

The UN agency specializing in aid to Palestinian refugees has become a chronically corrupt organization whose funds are siphoned off by terror groups, especially in Gaza, according to a new series of studies by...

Jordan’s Protests: Arab Spring Lite?

http://www.fpri.org/enotes/2011/201107.helfont_helfont.jordan.html Samuel Helfont is a Ph.D Candidate in Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University and an Associate Scholar of the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He is the author of Yusuf al-Qaradawi: Islam and Modernity (2009)...

Rabbi Benarroch ‘S Sephardic Journey- Continuation Of Limmud

Rabbi Benarroch and the author, Aidan Fishman http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com /article_detail.cfm?id=1350&sec=2& title=RABBI_BENARROCH_'S_ SEPHARDIC_JOURNEY-_ CONTINUATION_OF_LIMMUD On June 19th, respected Israeli rabbi and local son Yosef Benarroch gave a presentation in the Kanee Foyer at the Rady Centre as part of Winnipeg’s nascent but...

The Middle East Turmoil: Its Impact on Arab-Israeli Peace Prospects *

It all started just five months ago, on Dec. 17, 2010, when Mohamed Bouazizi, a young Tunisian fruit peddler in Sidi Bouzidi, south of the Tunisian capital, set himself ablaze after the police seized...

Embracing the Land

http://www.uruknet.info/?colonna=m&p=79482&l=x&size=1&hd=0 Every morning he wakes up, prays, prepares tea, carries the old tea pot and a small glass and goes to check on his trees and plants. He wanders between the loquat tree and the...

Hizb ut-Tahrir: Islam Has Replaced Communism as Top U.S. Enemy

http://www.investigativeproject.org/3031/hizb-ut-tahrir-islam-has-replaced-communism-as A radical Islamist group which claims a presence in nearly 50 countries is so confident it can help establish a global Muslim government - or caliphate - that it distributed a draft constitution during...

Obama Administration Opens Formal Contacts With the Muslim Brotherhood

http://www.nationalreview.com/blogs/print/270864 Don’t say I didn’t warn you. Besides explaining what the Muslim Brotherhood is and has always been, the major point of The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the West Sabotage America was to warn...