Israel

http://www.gloria-center.org/2012/07/understanding-real-israeli-politics/?utm_source=activetrail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=gloria-campaign “Can’t anybody here play this game?” -Casey Stengel, great baseball coach Stengel’s complaint is the precise description of Israeli politics nowadays. To a remarkable extent-and this has nothing to do with his views or policies-Bibi...

http://www.biu.ac.il/SOC/besa/docs/perspectives176.pdf EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The Commission to Examine the Status of Building in Judea and Samaria (the "Levy report") has drawn a flurry of overwrought criticism due to its inclusion of a section concerning the lawfulness...

http://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/news/12161/wjc_analysis_is_the_war_in_syria_undermining_the_palestinian_claim_to_the_right_of_return _ The fate of the Assad regime in Syria has been the main focus of media attention in recent months. Yet, another crisis has quietly developed on the sidelines of the Syrian calamity which...

http://www.romirowsky.com/12055/unrwa-the-right-of-return Chair: Good evening everyone. I am Louise Ellman MP, and on behalf of the Henry Jackson Society, I would like to welcome you to this meeting here in the House of Commons. I would...

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=2692&sec=1&title=Bypassing_the_Suez_Canal:_Israel_to_Have_China_Construct_The_Eilat_Railway The biggest piece of news that emerged from Israel this past week (July 3) is one you may have heard nothing about--but it is a game changer in terms of elevating Israel's economic/strategic position...

http://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/analysis/dr-mordechai-kedar/mordechai-kedar-the-arab-world-on-the-precipice/2012/07/30/0/ Although I do not generally do so, I will open with an Arabic joke, because in the Arab world (and perhaps in other places as well) people often use humor to speak the truth...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alan-elsner/thank-heaven-and-israel_b_1719452.html As the death toll mounts in Syria and the country slides deeper into civil war, the world should be thankful that the Assad regime never succeeded in developing nuclear weapons -- which almost happened...

http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2012/al-monitor/us-authorizes-financial-support.html The waiver was received from the Treasury Department Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) last week, Brian Sayers, of the Syrian Support Group, told Al- Monitor in an interview Friday. “The OFAC decision is huge,”...

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=5216 Jews, Christians or Muslims? An image from the film of the skeletons. Photo credit: Yoav Ari Dudkevitch Remains of thousands of Jews massacred by the Romans on the Temple Mount at the time of the destruction...

NRC AH Letters Editor Amsterdam, 03.07.2012 Dear Sir, The obituary of your Israel correspondent, Leonie van Nierop, re Yitzchak Shamir is quite biased. It was mentioned in this obituary as though the reliability of Israel’s Arabs adversaries is rather...