Changes in the Balance of Power in Egypt: Egyptian Discourse on the Social Networks

http://www.inss.org.il/publications.php?cat=21&incat=&read=9934 Background Following the terrorist attack in northern Sinai that killed sixteen Egyptian soldiers, the internal struggle in Egypt between the Muslim Brotherhood and the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) reached a new level....

All the Ayatollah’s Men

http://nationalinterest.org/article/all-the-ayatollahs-men-7344?page=show MORE THAN thirty years after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini came to power-and two decades after his passing-the Islamic Republic remains an outlier in international relations. Other non-Western, revolutionary regimes eventually eschewed a rigidly ideological foreign...

Canada’s moral leadership

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=2534 President Shimon Peres was right to laud Canada as a “moral role model” for the nations of the world. Commenting on Ottawa’s Friday decision to cut diplomatic relations with Iran, Peres said, “Canada has...

State Stands by its Man

http://freebeacon.com/state-stands-by-its-man/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter The State Department defended its selection of a controversial anti-Israel activist to participate in a human rights forum in Poland, praising the longtime Israel critic as “valued and highly credible.” Salam al-Marayati, founder of the...

Israel and U.S. on a Collision Course?

Some 57 percent of Israeli Jews preferred Romney, only 22% Obama (in my sector of American Israelis it was even more lopsided, a full 85% having cast absentee ballots for the challenger, only...

Obama Blocks Israeli Invasion of Gaza

Western diplomats said Obama has been on the telephone with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu nearly every day amid the war between Israel and the Gaza Strip. They said Obama has urged Netanyahu not to...

Gaza’s tunnels rebound from Israeli offensive

RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) - Rafah's biggest industry is back in business: Gazans are rebuilding the network of underground smuggling tunnels crisscrossing the Egyptian border that were pummeled in a recent Israeli offensive, restoring...

Hamastine: A Present from the U.N. to Khaled Mashaal

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3513/hamas-palestine-un In a field near the Islamic University -- where PhD theses are written on topics such as "The role of the Muslim mother in preparing her sons to be shaheeds of the resistance"...

Softball Reporting:. Examining A NEWS INTERVIEW WITH FAYAD

On January 18, 2013, The Jerusalem Post magazine featured a parody of an interview with the non elected Palestinian Arab Authority Prime Minister Fayad, http://themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=36880 characterized by softball questions that provided Fayad with an opportunity...

What Is Behind Salam Fayyad’s Call for “Economic Intifada”?

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3508/economic-intifada Salam Fayyad, the prime minister of the Palestinian Authority, this week called for an economic intifada against Israel. Fayyad, whose government is facing a severe financial crisis, wants Palestinians to boycott all Israeli goods in...