From Northern Canada, With Love

http://www.thejewishweek.com/features/lens/northern_canada_love During a recent educational tour in Canada, Noam Bedein, director of the Sderot Media Center, an independent advocacy organization in the Negev, encountered a surprising amount of support for Israel among the members of...

Smugglers’ tunnels are Hamas’ lifeblood

http://www.salon.com/2012/02/27/smugglers_tunnels_are_hamas_lifeblood/singleton/ A Palestinian sits in a smuggling tunnel beneath the Egyptian-Gaza border in Rafah. (Credit: Reuters//Ibraheem Abu Mustafa) RAFAH, Gaza Strip - The first things you notice are the trucks, entering Rafah’s dusty main thoroughfare from small...

Returning to Terror

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/02/27/returning-to-terror/ About 25-percent of the suspected terrorist detainees freed from Guantanamo prison in Cuba are known or are believed to have gone back to active terrorism, says a government report that released recently - a...

Hamas and Fatah Want a New Intifada

http://www.stonegateinstitute.org/2887/hamas-fatah-intifada Hamas and Fatah have lately ratcheted up their rhetoric against Israel in a clear bid to distract attention from their failure to end their power struggle. By backing a "popular resistance" against Israel, Hamas and...

Middle East Myths Metastasize, Iran War Hysteria Rages Onward

http://rubinreports.blogspot.com/2012/02/middle-east-myths-metastasizes-iran-war.html Much written and said about the Middle East has always been fantasy. But nowadays the proportion of fantasy to reality is higher than ever. And number one on that list is the war hysteria...

IBM at Auschwitz, New Documents

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/328-121/10198- focus-ibm-at-auschwitz-new-documents Auschwitz survivor Leon Greenman displays his number tattoo. (photo: Ian Waldie/Getty Images) Newly-released documents expose more explicitly the details of IBM's pivotal role in the Holocaust - all six phases: identification, expulsion from society, confiscation, ghettoization,...

Fatah Receives Longer-Range Rockets

Middle East Newsline, http://www.menewsline.com The Fatah militia has received extended-range rockets for attacks on Israel. Palestinian sources said the Fatah militia has acquired its first BM-21 Katyusha rockets since the 1982 war in Lebanon. They said...

Put Palestinian Tactics, Not Israeli Military Justice, On Trial

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/02/20/ palestinian-tactics-israeli-justice-west-ban/ Yesterday, the New York Times devoted considerable space to the story of one Islam Dar Ayyoub, a 15-year-old Palestinian from a village near Ramallah. According to the story, Ayyoub’s childhood was stolen from him...

How Come No One Wants to Help Gaza?

http://www.stonegateinstitute.org/2862/help-gaza Who is stopping the Palestinians from turning the Gaza Strip into the Middle East's Hong Kong? Is it Israel, the Palestinians themselves or the Arab countries? In the past few weeks, Hamas Prime Minister Ismail...

The Ever-Growing Palestinian Problem

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/291500/ever- growing-palestinian-problem-daniel-pipes Of all the issues that drive the Arab-Israeli conflict, none is more central, malign, primal, enduring, emotional, and complex than the status of those persons known as Palestinian refugees. The origins of this unique case,...