Israel

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/08/war-torn-syria-split-into-three-regions/100572/ According to the Associated Press, two and a half years into Syria's civil war, the once highly-centralized authoritarian state has effectively split into three distinct parts, each boasting its own flags, security agencies and...

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/171349#.Uh076xXn_IU This evening (Tuesday) the Foreign Ministry, in an usual move, made an official announcement on behalf of the State of Israel that it condemns the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for misrepresenting...

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/08/22/us-tax-dollars-help-fund-un-hate-camp-in-gaza-documentary/ Palestinian children as young as 5 are being taught to hate Jews, glorify martyrs and support jihad, and a U.S.-funded United Nations agency is helping to underwrite the effort, according to a controversial new...

The Hurva: Destroyed by Arab Legion, 1948. Rebuilt by Israel, 2011 Who remembers? Between 1949 & 1967, Arabs outlawed all Jews from the Old City of Jerusalem, a policy which ended in 1967, when Israel...

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/08/us_aid_should_place_conditions_on_its_donation_to_the_palestinians.html The Jerusalem Post reported in its August 18 edition that the US and the Palestinian Authority signed a $148 million economic aid agreement. Our agency asked PA officials where the money was going. The answer: education,...

http://rubinreports.blogspot.co.il/2013/08/by-barry-rubin-in-1848-new-communist.html In 1848, the new Communist movement issued a manifesto. It began with the opening line: “A specter is haunting Europe-the specter of Communism.” For our purposes today, this threat might be reworded as: “A specter is...

http://www.meforum.org/3588/morsi-detained-bloodbath-egypt As Egypt explodes in what could be civil war, with a reported death toll of at least 628 dead and rising in clashes between security forces and Islamists that began August 14, many are...

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/13713#.UhKXh9JurTo The media in Israel on August 18 devoted a day of news stories to the abuse of a “stun gun”, something like an electric cattle prod and known as a taser gun, in the...

http://networkedblogs.com/OdXVF What is the State Department's attitude to governments freeing prisoners who have murdered US citizens? The answer might surprise you. The question is neither rhetorical nor theoretical in our part of the world. There have...

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/08/19/america-mideast-policies-need-reality-and-morality-check/ On June 4, 2009, President Barack Obama made his historic "New Beginning" speech in Cairo, boldly seeking to harken a new day for the U.S. and the Muslim world. But all the high hopes...