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Syria: New Missile Deployment on the Border
The Middle East Newsline reports from Israeli military sources that Syria has deployed more than 1,000 missiles and rockets near the Jewish state.
Israeli officials said Syria has brought a range of medium- and long-range...
Ignoring Sderot
The missiles continue to fire on Sderot and the Western Negev, and the media remains silent.
A few days ago, I turned on the TV to catch the day's news. The story shaking the nation:...
Israeli Arabs: Emerging as a Fifth Column for Iran?
Among the Arab citizens of Israel, who constitute more than one million Israeli citizens and more than 15% of Israel's population, there is a widespread support for Iran. This has begun to worry the...
Bedein: Saudi Arabia – Although At War With Israel – Called By U.S. As...
On May 15, 1948, on the very day that Israel declared its independence from the British empire, the Arab league, comprised of the Arab states in the Middle East, declared a war whose purpose...
Fatah and Palestinian Islamic Jihad: How Islamic Jihad Derived from the Fatah
Jerusalem Issue Brief Institute for Contemporary Affairs founded jointly at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs with the Wechsler Family Foundation
Vol. 6, No. 21 - 1 March 2007
Fatah was the main supporter in the...
Condi on a Learning Curve About Abbas?
During Condoleezza Rice's three-hour meeting with Mahmoud Abbas last week in Ramallah, she reportedly "employed a threatening tone." A Palestinian Authority official said that "We've never seen her in such a bad mood."
Later at...
Fatah Spokesman: In Mecca, We Chose Hamas, Not Israel
The question that has been bandied about over the past 13 months, since the Hamas victory in the elections over the Fatah, led by Arafat's protégé Mahmoud Abbas, has been whether Fatah would choose...
Commentary: A Word of Caution
A word of caution is in order today regarding what seem to be peaceful overtures.
Spain has just hosted a Spanish-Arab conference in Madrid that 19 members of the Arab League attended.
(It is, I will...
Palestinian government accuses US of political blackmail
The Palestinian government has expressed its concern at the outcome of the Quartet's meeting on Wednesday in Berlin in which the Quartet - comprising of the EU, UN, US, and Russia - issued a...
Testimony presented to: Hearing of the Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia...
February 14, 2007
2172 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C.
Chaired By: Representative Gary L. Ackerman (D-NY)
Witnesses:
David Makovsky, Director, Project on the Middle East Peace Process, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy;
Martin S. Indyk, Director, Saban...
