What Will Happen Now with U.S. Middle East Policy?

http://www.gloria-center.org/2013/10/what-will-happen-now-with-u-s-middle-east-policy-2/ Turkish Reader: Haven’t you understood yet that the US does not care about whether a Muslim country is ruled by Sharia or by secular law as long as that regime is pro-American?...

Egypt’s new military-backed regime has given the intelligence community a green light for...

The Washington Institute for Near East Policy asserts that Egyptian Defense Minister Abdul Fatah Sisi, in a break with policy that lasted since the 1979 peace treaty, authorized the military and intelligence community to...

No Will No Way writes Michael Kuttner

http://www.jwire.com.au/featured-articles/no-will-no-way-writes-michael-kuttner/37523#more-37523 In the midst of the turmoil enveloping European Jewry during the early 1940’s, a man by the name of Jan Karski was dispatched by the Polish underground to tell western allies about the atrocities...

Is Iran a Lunatic State or a Rational Actor? Neither: It is a Rational...

http://rubinreports.blogspot.co.il/2013/10/is-iran-lunatic-state-or-rational-actor.html The United States now estimates it will take one year for Iran to get nuclear weapons; Israel says some months. Is Iran a Lunatic State or a Rational Actor? It is neither; it is a...

Netanyahu Answers Abbas’s glowing praise of the Mufti

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-answers-abbass-gowing-praise-of-hitlers-ally/ On January 4, 2013, Mahmoud Abbas, spoke via video link on a wide screen to the masses in Gaza, who gathered to celebrate the founding of Fatah, (Arabic for conquest) otherwise known as the...

What Abbas Missed in His UN Speech

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4001/abbas-un-speech As Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was delivering his speech at the General Assembly of the United Nations last week, one of his officials in Ramallah revealed that 250,000 out of the approximately 600,000...

How the EU directly funds settlements in occupied territory

http://www.kohelet.org.il/en/All-Publications.aspx?id=48 A delegation of European Union officials arrived in Israel this week to discuss the European Commission’s proposed regulations for discretionary funding to Israeli entities. Under guidelines prepared earlier this summer, euros would not be allowed...

The Al-Nusra Front (Jabhat al-Nusra) is an Al-Qaeda Salafist-jihadi network, prominent in the rebel...

http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/en/article/20573 Al-Qaeda Entrenchment in Syria 1. During the Syrian civil war two branches of Al-Qaeda established themselves among the rebel organizations fighting to overthrow the regime of Bashar Assad. The most prominent is the Al-Nusra...

Hassan Rouhani and the Spiritual Leader: A New Style of Negotiations

http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=5734 Within just a few short weeks, using a sophisticated, complex, low cost move, Hassan Rouhani, Iran’s new president, succeeded in changing the rules of the Iranian nuclear game. The change consists of two interdependent...

Video Games and Cigarettes: Syria’s Disneyland for Jihadists

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/foreign-jihadists-in-syria-favor-liberal-transit-towns-over-front-a-910092.html Atmeh looks like the set for a movie about al-Qaida. New arrivals pulling suitcases on wheels search for their emirs, Africans and Asians can be seen on the village streets, and long-haired men dressed...