Israel

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24998618 In the maternity unit at the Sieff Hospital in the Israeli city of Tzfat, the safe arrival of every baby feels like a minor miracle. But on the day we visited, there was one little...

http://dawn.com/news/1057412/shia-sunni-schism-a-challenge-to-world-peace The recent violence in Rawalpindi or the bombing of the Iranian embassy in Beirut are not the only manifestations of the intra-Muslim sectarian discord. The inability of Muslims to settle a 7th century dispute...

http://www.idfblog.com/2013/11/19/first-person-testimony-watched-firebomb-aimed-school-bus-fly-towards/ Last week, I saw my life flash before my eyes, and felt the terrible fear of dying. I was traveling on a road in Samaria. A bus full of children returning from school came down...

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2013/Nov-20/238373-after-surviving-death-boat-palestinians-locked-up-in-egypt.ashx#axzz2lGeNfv5d A Palestinian passenger, hoping to cross into Egypt, sits behind a fence as she waits at the Rafah crossing between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip November 19, 2013. (REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa)ALEXANDRIA, Egypt: After...

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/11/20/vive_la_freeze_rouhani_diplomacy?page=0,0 Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman is back in Geneva, making another go at an interim agreement between Iran and the so-called E3/EU+3. (That's "E3" as in three European countries: Britain,...

http://www.middleeast-armscontrol.com/2013/11/19/how-to-strengthen-the-interim-iran-deal/ Press reports make it clear that the interim deal will bring Iran into compliance with none of its key international legal obligations as spelled out in applicable Security Council resolutions. These resolutions explicitly require...

Israel has assessed that Iran was unlikely to launch a regional war even its nuclear infrastructure was destroyed. Israel's leading strategic institute has concluded that Teheran would demonstrate restraint in wake of an Israeli strike...

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/One-year-since-Pillar-of-Defense-Conclusions-and-policy-implications-332455 IDF tanks and a flag on the Gaza border Photo: Ronen Zvulun / Reuters This November, southern Israel marks one year since the IDF’s Operation Pillar of Defense in the Gaza Strip. It has been...

www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/11/20/why-are-pro-israel-jewish-observers-being-barred-from-un-day-solidarity/ American taxpayers have now paid over half a billion dollars to renovate United Nations Headquarters in New York City. And guess who is controlling access to the meeting rooms? The UN Division for Palestinian...

http://blogs.cfr.org/abrams/2013/11/19/palestinians-from-syria-the-worst-treatment-of-all/?cid=otr-partner_site-Israel_hayom There are over 500,000 Palestinian “refugees” in Syria, as counted by the UN agency handling Palestinian “refugees,” the UN Relief and Works Agency or UNRWA. The quotation marks are especially apt in this case,...