The End of Fayyadism

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/12/14/the_end_of_fayyadism The "Arab Spring" may be pushing the Middle East toward transparency and more representative government, but the Palestinian Authority is bucking the trend. Prime Minister Salaam Fayyad, perhaps the only Palestinian leader who earnestly...

Panetta’s Dangerous Mistake

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=1861&sec=2&title= ELLIOT_ABRAMS:_PANETTA'S_DANGEROUS_MISTAKE Secretary of Defense Panetta addressed the Saban Forum, the annual meeting of Israeli and American journalists, officials, and former officials, on Friday evening. What he said is no mystery; why he said it is...

No longer a journalist’s paradise

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=249682 Hebrew-language journalism in Israel is robust, comprehensive and often-courageous, but it has several flaws that ought to be brought to light if only to stimulate self-criticism and if possible, improvement. One of them is the...

The February 2005 Israel government approved retreat map that has never been...

In March, 2005, Israeli government minister Yuli Edelstein made a seminal appearance at the Alon Shvut community center in Gush Etzion in which he assessed that the February 20, 2005 retreat decision of the...

Audio: How the PA uses revenues handed over by Israel to bolster its education...

Audio: How the PA uses revenues handed over by Israel to bolster its education ministry, its culture ministry and its communications ministry: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/3581#.Tt5SpEhFsn8 These ministries conduct:. An education system whose curriculum based on genocide of Israel. International activities...

Secretary of Defense Panetta Shows How the Obama Administration is Selling Out Israel and...

http://www.gloria-center.org/2011/12/secretary-of-defense-panetta-shows -how-the-obama-administration-is-selling-out-israel-and-us-interests/ In a major address on U.S. Middle East policy to the Brookings Institution U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta gave us a clear picture of the Obama administration’s view of the region. When taken...

Obama Fundraiser and Ambassador Blames Israel for Anti-Semitism (Updated)

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-fundraiser-and-ambassador -blames-israel-anti-semitism_610946.html The U.S. ambassador to Belgium, Howard Gutman, recently told a conference hosted by the European Jewish Union that Israel is to blame for growing anti-Semitism harbored by people of Muslim faith. Ambassador Howard Gutman “A distinction...

[Ignores Palestinian refusal to talk] Transcript: Remarks by Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta...

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=54695 While we share Israel’s legitimate concerns about instability in the Sinai Peninsula and the attack on the Israeli embassy in Cairo, the best way to address these concerns is through increasing communication and cooperation...

DORE GOLD: THE PALESTINIANS RESURRECT THE PARTITION PLAN

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=1836&sec=1& title=DORE_GOLD:_THE_PALESTINIANS_RESURRECT_THE_PARTITION_PLAN Whoever thinks that U.N. General Assembly Resolution 181 - the famous Partition Plan - from Nov. 29, 1947, is for historians of the Middle East alone, is not aware of the role that the...

Mordechai Kedar -A Globalized Network of Considerations Enables the on-going Butchering of Thousands of...

http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=54677 The Center for the Study of the Middle East and Islam (under formation) Bar-Ilan University Middle Eastern Insights No. 13, 2 December, 2011 Who Kills the Syrians? A Globalized Network of Considerations Enables the on-going Butchering of Thousands of...