Israel

http://news.yahoo.com/us-activist-death-israel-accident-witness-174022486.html A key witness in a civil case brought by the family of US activist Rachel Corrie, killed by an Israeli bulldozer during a demonstration in Gaza, said on Sunday that she had caused her...

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/Israeli+ lawyers+stopped+second+flotilla/5076493/story.html Israel has deployed a powerful new strategy against the latest wouldbe Gaza flotilla activists: Bore them to death. For three weeks, the activists aboard the lead flotilla boat, an old freighter renamed the “Tahrir,” have...

Middle East Newsline,http://www.menewsline.com/ Israel's military plans a crackdown on Jewish housing in the West Bank. The Israeli military's Civil Administration has ordered an increase in the demolition of unlicensed Jewish homes in the West Bank. The...

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=1620&sec=1&title= PALESTINIAN_ENVOY_TO_CANADA_IS_ASKED_TO_LEAVE_OTTAWA_AFTER_ CONTROVERSIAL_TWEET _ "The English subtitles on the video PA envoy tweeted include a passage where millions are called “to a war that raze the injustice and oppression and destroy the Jews.” Just as the Palestinian Authority...

http://pjmedia.com/barryrubin/2011/11/18/why-don%e2%80%99t-western- elites-get-the-middle-east-because-they-think-it%e2%80%99s-just-like-them-sort-of/ I’ve come to realize a hitherto hidden dimension of why it is so hard for Western establishment figures (policymakers, journalists, and academics) to understand the Middle East. It is the conflict between the thirst...

A member of the Israeli Knesset Parliament intends to ask the U.N. to close down the aid agency that assists Palestinian refugees living in Judea and Samaria, Gaza and Jerusalem, saying the organization poses...

http://schanzer.pundicity.com/11725/status-update A war is brewing on Capitol Hill. And while wars tend to create refugees, this one may result in fewer of them. Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL) is trying to get a handle on the real...

http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/05/24/senate_fight_today_over_palestinian_refugees Thirty U.S. senators will vote today over whether there really are 5 million Palestinian "refugees" or just around 30,000 -- a hot-button issue that has already become the subject of a vigorous international debate...

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...

http://freebeacon.com/lifestyles-of-the-rich-and-palestinian/ Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has allegedly deposited nearly $13 million in U.S. taxpayer aid into a secret bank account, and routinely uses his political connections to profit from the stagnant peace process, according...