Obama’s Exclusion of Israel at Counter-terror Conference Raises Concern

http://www.algemeiner.com/2012/07/15/top-security-experts-concerned-over-obama-freezing-israel-out-of-counter-terror-conferences/ Top security experts in Israel are worried about the Obama Administration’s attitude to radical Muslim governments in the region and by Obama’s willingness to freeze Israel out of two recent high-level counter-terror conferences. Israel...

Egypt Attaches Strings to Peace with Israel

http://freebeacon.com/egypt-attaches-strings-to-peace-with-israel/ Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was silent as a senior Egyptian official stated during a joint press conference that his country would only uphold its peace treaty with Israel if the Jewish state returns...

The UN’s refugee machine

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4254552,00.html The relations between Israel and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA ) have known ups and downs. It’s a story that features familiar UN politics, and most of all,...

Rubin Reports: Israel is in Good Shape Because So Many Others Decided Not to...

http://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/analysis/rubin-reports/rubin-reports-israel-is-in-good-shape-because-so-many-others-decided-not-to-be/2012/07/13/ The more I think about Israel’s security situation at this moment, the better it looks. Obviously, this is counter-intuitive given the media bias, academic distortions, and campaigns for sanctions of various kinds. And, of...

The Donkey, the Camel and the Facebook Scam: How the Muslim Brotherhood Conquered Egypt...

http://www.fpri.org/enotes/2012/201207.stock.egypt.html Raymond Stock, former Visiting Assistant Professor of Arabic and Middle East Studies at Drew University (2010-11), and Guggenheim Fellow (2007), lived in Cairo for 20 years (1990-2010). He was denied entry and deported by...

Israel’s Pending Migration Disaster

http://www.fpri.org/enotes/2012/201207.stock.egypt.html In The Picture of Dorian Gray, the famous novel written by the Anglo-Irish author Oscar Wilde, the seemingly ageless protagonist hides a terrible secret: All of his vices have been engraved onto the face...

Yasir Arafat Is Still Dead and We Know Who Really Did Him In

http://spme.net/articles/8773/2/5/Yasir-Arafat-Is-Still-Dead-and-We-Know-Who-Really-Did-Him-In.html Yasir Arafat is still dead. True, he was once alive. I sat across from him in his Gaza office, for example. And he even had a copy of my history of the PLO on...

Egypt and Iran: Will the Two Walk Together? INSS Insight

http://www.inss.org.il/publications.php?cat=21&incat=&read=6871 Until Mubarak’s ouster, Egypt, which viewed the Islamic Revolution as a threat to its regime, was a central link in the axis of anti-Iran Arab nations. The more than 30 years following the Khomeini...

Lessening UNRWA’s damage

http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArticle.aspx?id=276842 Critics of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the organization tasked with oversight of Palestine refugees, have tended to focus on its sins. Its camps are havens for terrorists. Its bureaucracy is bloated...

Egypt’s Real Ruler: Mohamed Tantawi

http://www.danielpipes.org/11584/mohamed-tantawi What does it mean that Mohamed Morsi is president of Egypt? Speaking for the American consensus, Bret Stephens recently argued in the Wall Street Journal against the consolation that the Muslim Brotherhood's victory "is...