Where 8,000 Rocket Launches Are Not a Casus Belli

http://www.jinsa.org/visiting-fellows/evelyn-gordon/where-8000-rocket-launches-are-not-casus-belli The most chilling comment I've seen on the mid-March surge of violence from Gaza, when terrorists fired 300 rockets at Israel in four days, was made almost three weeks earlier. The rocket fire had...

Nationalism, Social Justice, and Civil Rights: Palestinian Discourse on the Social Networks, April 2012

http://www.inss.org.il/upload/%28FILE%291335769071.pdf With a lack of consensus in the Palestinian camp on various issues and numerous obstacles to the two main political processes - the political process with Israel and internal Palestinian reconciliation - social network...

Abbas’s Police State

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/04/30/abbas_s_police_state?page=0,1 President Barack Obama's administration has loudly touted its efforts to protect peaceful activists across the globe from regimes that would oppress them. On April 26, the White House issued an executive order to stop...

Officials: U.S. could agree to limited Iranian uranium enrichment

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/04/washington-in-a-major-concession-obama-administration-officials-say-they-could-support-allowing-iran-to-continue-a-cruci.html WASHINGTON - In a major concession, Obama administration officials say they could support allowing Iran to continue a crucial element of its disputed nuclear program if the government in Tehran took other major steps...

How Egypt’s Presidential Election Will Change the Middle East and the World

http://rubinreports.blogspot.com/2012/04/how-egypts-presidential-election-will.html What might well be the most significant election in Middle East history is about to happen yet the situation and its implications are simply not understood abroad. On May 23-24, with a probable run-off...

Hizbullah Bolsters UAV unit

The Iranian-sponsored Hizbullah was said to have expanded its fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles. Israeli military sources said Hizbullah has been receiving combat and other UAVs from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. They said the...

CBS under fire for ’60 Minutes’ segment attacking Israel

http://freebeacon.com/journalistic-malpractice/ Christian leaders, Middle East experts, and observers on Capitol Hill are crying foul on a CBS News report that they say erroneously blamed Israel for the persecution and migration of Palestinian Christians. The report by...

PA Could Use Troops Against Israel

www.menewsline.com The Palestinian Authority could use its tens of thousands of troops for a new war against Israel, a report said. The Institute for National Security Studies asserted that PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas could order Palestinian...

Following Abbas’ Letter to Netanyahu: Options Available to the Palestinian Authority

http://www.inss.org.il/upload/%28FILE%291335095437.pdf The anticipated meeting between Benjamin Netanyahu and Salam Fayyad did not take place, and by all indications, the meeting with Saeb Erekat and the Palestinian intelligence chief did not produce any significant results. According...

Must see: The egyptian stamp dated may 15 1948

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=2417&sec=2&title= MUST_SEE:_THE_EGYPTIAN_STAMP__DATED_MAY_15_1948 I write these words hours before the beginning of Yom Hazikaron, the day we remember and pay tribute to all of those who have fallen in Israel's wars. It will be followed by celebrations...