Iraq

http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/israels-growing-role-in-southern-syria As the fighting in Syria rages, Israel has been moving cautiously and often reluctantly toward assuming a modest role in the civil war, restricted to areas along the Golan Heights frontier line. What began...

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4400/obama-muslim-persecutions Why is the U.S. downplaying or denying attacks against Christians? "What about the churches which were desecrated? Is this not blasphemy? Where is justice?" - Fr. James Channan OP, Director of The Peace Center, Lahore,...

Summary and Analysis Throughout Saturday, the Voice of Palestine gave great prominence to the executions of two men convicted of "cooperation" with Israel, as well as the approval of two more death sentences. Note: this...

Summary and Analysis VOP led its headlines with the daylight murder yesterday of Hisham Maki in Gaza, but Maki was not characterized today as a "martyr"-which would have been obligatory had he been killed by...

Summary and Analysis The Voice of Palestine began its special Feast of Sacrifice ('Eid al-Adha) programming with prayers and sermon from the Al-Aqsa, including a call from the mosque sheikh "to liberate Jerusalem" and...

From the beginning of May until last Tuesday, the Palestinians carried out 323 terrorist attacks against Israeli targets. That is an average of 12 per day. These attacks include suicide bombings, penetrations of Israeli...

(February 4, 2005-1330 Jerusalem/6:30 a.m. NY) The official Palestinian news media today broke Mahmoud Abbas's promise to halt incitement to violence and hatred in the course of radio and television news programs as well as...

Nobody in the Republican-controlled Congress wants to be seen as opposing the wishes of both Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and the Bush administration. But quietly, the unilateral Israeli pullout from the Gaza Strip...

Last night a reader asked me for a repeat of the reasons why I think the US should stay in Iraq. I gave him not just a repeat, but an expansion of my original...

Somebody needs to tell the truth. To the inhabitants of Beit Hanoun, to the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip, to the Arabs of the territories, to the whole world. It is a simple, harsh and...