Israel

http://www.danielpipes.org/11929/romney-obama-israel "President Obama has thrown allies like Israel under the bus." That's what Mitt Romney, Republican candidate for president, said in the high-profile speech accepting his party's nomination last week, repeating a slang phrase for...

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=3029&sec=2&title=Fuel_for_Thought:_Is_Egypt's_Muslim_Brotherhood_Purposely_Trying_to_destabilize_King_Abdullah_of_Jordan_by_withholding_gas_supplies _ In September I wrote an article about Canada trying to help Jordan with it's energy needs, which I considered to be an effort to help stabilize the Hashemite Kingdom, which is something that...

http://freebeacon.com/iran-shows-off-new-toys/ Iranian military leaders claim to have successfully built and tested several new submarines, missiles, and warplanes during a several-day military exercise meant to showcase Tehran’s increased naval prowess. Special operations forces tied to Iran’s navy...

http://www.jinsa.org/fellowship-program/david-p-goldman/egypt-verge-bankruptcy#.UOHrjeSTjEY Egypt is effectively out of cash. With foreign exchange reserves at a “critical minimum,” Egypt’s central bank imposed exchange controls and let the Egyptian pound exchange rate fall by about 5 percent from the...

http://www.algemeiner.com/2013/07/10/unrwa-and-the-united-nations-are-training-terrorists/ Just before Mr. Bedein showed us two films (in Arabic, with English voiceover and Hebrew subtitles) of how and what the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNWRA) teaches in the...

The hazy, crazy, lazy endless days of summer are upon us and children are enjoying vacation from school, the luxury of going to bed late and then sleeping in the next morning and for...

http://www.arlenefromisrael.info/current-postings/ "Moadim L'Simcha" (times of joy) is the traditional greeting for the intermediate days of Sukkot. And, yes, I've heard it many time these past few days. Personally, I have been finding it to be...

http://arlenefromisrael.squarespace.com/current-postings/2013/12/2/december-2-2013-strength-for-the-hard-times.html Credit: Amit Erez I give thanks for this Chanukah season, which is buoying me - and I hope many of you! - during a difficult time. ~~~~~~~~~~ Before moving to the difficult stuff, I begin with links...

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=3978&sec=2&title=Editor%27s_report:_Ramallah_-The_Back_Entrance,a_Whiff_of_Nazism_and_Coca_-Cola Up until August 2011, I had no idea that there was a "back" entrance to Ramallah used for diplomats only, which enabled them to get in and out of Ramallah with ease and avoid...

http://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/middle-way-gaza-fight/ Executive Summary: Many supporters of Israel’s policy in the current Gaza battle argue that the only stronger alternative available for Israel is to reoccupy Gaza - which IDF sources have said might take a...