The Geography of Iranian Power by Robert D. Kaplan
http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/geography-iranian-power-robert-d-kaplan
Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from Robert D. Kaplan's new book, The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate , which will be...
Morsi’s just not that into Iran
http://mideast.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/08/30/morsis_just_not_that_into_iran_0
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had high hopes for the visit to Tehran by new Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi. His trip on Thursday for the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit might have been brief -- his...
The truth about ISM
http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=5641
The family of Rachel Corrie, who was crushed by an army bulldozer during a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Gaza in 2003, filed a civil suit against the State of Israel for their daughter's death. This...
UN Blames Israel for Gaza’s ‘Inviable’ Future
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/joseph-klein/un-blames-israel-for-gazas-inviable-future/
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) held a conference on August 27th entitled “Will the Gaza Strip be Viable in 2020?” The conclusion, predictably, was that the Israeli government was fully responsible...
The Order for Beatings Came From Abbas’s Office
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3316/abbas-office-ordered-beatings
A Palestinian commission of inquiry into the beating of Palestinian journalists and demonstrators in Ramallah has found that top officials in Mahmoud Abbas's office had ordered the assault.
The discovery did not come as a...
Debating What to Do About Iran
Almost everyone seems to agree that the Iranian nuclear weapons project should be stopped. Preferably through economic sanctions against Iran, but if that doesn't work, then military means will have to be used. But...
The Role of Hamas in the Formation of Global Jihadi Networks in Sinai
http://jcpa.org/article/the-role-of-hamas-in-the-formation-of-global-jihadi-networks-in-sinai/
Vol. 12, No. 18
After the Rafah attack, it was noticeable that the Egyptian government refrained from condemning the terrorists’ plan to carry out a mass-casualty attack in Israel. Indeed, senior Muslim Brotherhood figures pointed...
Corrie Verdict Won’t End Delegitimization by the ISM
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/12106#.UDzQGcFlS6V
Now that the Judge Oded Gershon has ruled that the death of Rachel Corrie her own fault and an accident on the part of the IDF, if anyone thinks this affects the de-legitimization efforts...
Middle East Non-Solutions
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/08/middle_east_non-solutions.html
The mantra crops up almost everywhere . "You Israelis have two simple choices ," it goes. "You can either annex all of the 'occupied territories' and grant equal Israeli citizenship to all of the...
Israel Warned Not To Rely On U.S.
http://www.menewsline.com
A former White House adviser ruled out the prospect that Washington would launch a strike on Iran's nuclear infrastructure. David Wurmser, a senior adviser to then-Vice President Richard Cheney, said he did not know...