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Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, on his upcoming visit to Washington, is likely to raise with congressional leaders the recent US foreign aid package that forbade direct assistance to the Palestinian Authority. The legislation, which...

Introduction 16 days after the Iranian revolution of 1979 Yasser Arafat was the first foreign leader who visited Ayatollah Khomeini. This was a historic visit for many reasons. Ayatollah Khomeini gave the PLO its own...

That Jews need to be "disengaged" from the Arabs is not a new idea. In July 1937 the British issued the Palestine Royal Peel Commission that concluded: "An irrepressible conflict has arisen between two...

We are receiving additional warnings from military and security personal regarding the dangers in Gaza and the need to go back in: Yesterday Yuval Diskin, head of Shabak (security services) appeared before the Knesset Foreign...

Barry Rubin, in his most recent column, lists "four phony panaceas, which will clearly not work." These are quick fixes that a very foolish and nearsighted world is promoting. Rubin says, not only will...

Sherwin Pomerantz is a 26 year resident of Israel and President of Atid EDI Ltd., an economic development consulting firm in Jerusalem. The most important consideration in planning any action is to evaluate the decision...

Columnist Tom Friedman , in the June 27 edition of the New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/27/opinion/27friedman.html?_r=1&ref=thomaslfriedman updates a medieval blood libel against Jews by comparing the tactics of Israel's defense forces in counter-terrorism operations to...

The Obama administration continues to turn up the heat on Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, after two years of quietly monitoring human rights abuses by his regime and doing nothing. The rapid response of the White...

http://pajamasmedia.com/barryrubin/2011/07/04/hizballah-brags-about-waging-war-on-america-the-u-s-government-ignores-it/ Sometimes a big scoop is lying in plain sight and this often happens nowadays because either the mass media does not pick up a big story or the experts don’t properly analyze it. So...

http://www.inss.org.il/publications.php?cat=21&incat=&read=6339 The events in Toulouse shone a spotlight on the threat posed by global jihadism to Europe and on several problems that for some time have been on the French and European Union agenda, first...