1,200 tunnels operating between Egypt and the Gaza Strip- Sinai tribal leader
http://www.asharq-e.com/news.asp?section=1&id=31784
Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat - The leader of the Al-Akur Tribe in Sinai, Arif Abu-Akr, has revealed that the 1,200 tunnels between the borders of Egypt and Gaza Strip are working at full capacity. Abu-Akr...
Remember, remember the fifth of November
http://www.jwire.com.au/featured-articles/remember-remember-the-fifth-of-november/29590
Money in those post war years was not as plentiful as today and therefore “a penny for the guy” was seen and heard on every street corner as youngsters scrounged together enough pennies...
Powder Keg in Gaza
http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/powder-keg-in-gaza
The violent blows exchanged between Israel and armed Islamist groups in Gaza over the past few weeks mark a dangerous shift. The pattern of occasional clashes established after Israel's 2008-2009 Operation Cast Lead has...
The Chinese Initiative on Syria: Beyond the Immediate Crisis
http://www.inss.org.il/publications.php?cat=21&incat=&read=10555
On October 31, 2012, China deviated from its traditional posture of shunning involvement in Middle East politics, and announced a four-step program to resolve the crisis in Syria. The initiative, however, does not include...
The Palestinian Conflict with Israel is Not the Core of the Middle East Conflict
http://www.jinsa.org/fellowship-program/evelyn-gordon/palestinian-conflict-israel-not-core-middle-east-conflict#.UKHaubJmTpw
As Syria's civil war drags on, it is increasingly destabilizing its neighbors. First, hundreds of thousands of refugees poured over their borders; now, violence has as well. Turkey and Syria have repeatedly exchanged deadly...
100 Hamas Rockets Targeting Israeli Schoolchildren
http://sderotmedia.org.il/bin/content.cgi?ID=949&q=3
Photos: Direct hit in Netivut home, Monday morning 12.11.12, later on a direct hit in a ceramics factory in Netivot. Daniel Hagbi/Sderot Media Center
It was a daunting, dismal weekend for Israel’s south, particularly for...
Fill your sandbags
I’d like to believe that President Barack Obama's re-election means nothing significant for U.S.-Israel relations, since “all Democratic and Republican presidents over the past four decades have been solidly pro-Israel” - as Deputy Prime...
Israel and U.S. on a Collision Course?
Some 57 percent of Israeli Jews preferred Romney, only 22% Obama (in my sector of American Israelis it was even more lopsided, a full 85% having cast absentee ballots for the challenger, only...
Washington’s Failure to Rein in UNRWA
General Assembly resolution 194 of December 11, 1948, offers two options, repatriation and resettlement, to achieve the reintegration of the Palestinian Arab refugees "into the economic life of the Near East." Yet,...