USAID Vets-Hiring Review, Support for Israel, Top Kirk Priorities Included in State-Foreign Ops
http://politicalnews.me/?id=14517&keys=USAID-APPROPRIATIONS-FOREIGN-ASSISTANCE
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator will be required to review the agency's veterans-hiring practices under a bill passed by the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee.
The Senate’s fiscal year (FY)...
Obama’s Exclusion of Israel at Counter-terror Conference Raises Concern
http://www.algemeiner.com/2012/07/15/top-security-experts-concerned-over-obama-freezing-israel-out-of-counter-terror-conferences/
Top security experts in Israel are worried about the Obama Administration’s attitude to radical Muslim governments in the region and by Obama’s willingness to freeze Israel out of two recent high-level counter-terror conferences.
Israel...
How the U.S. Government Should Deal With the Jerusalem As Israel’s Capital Issue
http://pjmedia.com/barryrubin/2012/08/03/how-the-u-s-government-should-deal-with-the-jerusalem-as-israels-capital-issue/?singlepage=true
Recently there has been a controversy when State Department spokespeople refused to say what they thought to be Israel’s capital. To understand this issue we need to understand that there are two different issues...
Observation: Countdown to disaster with Egypt? Is this already the eleventh hour?
http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=57907
Date: 17 August 2012
Israel Radio Arab Affairs analyst Eran Zinger reported during the noon news magazine program that in recent day Egypt has deployed anti-aircraft missiles near Israel's border in Egyptian Sinai without permission...
It’s Not Just the Temple Mount; They Even Claim Susya
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/12085#.UDeYE8GTvSs
In land disputes with Israel, Arabs often claim their "historic rights" to almost every part of Israel, often repeating the mantra that their grandfathers had lived on a given tract of land "for centuries"
In...
Weekly Commentary: Did Sadat do Israel favor opting for war rather than Kissinger plan?
http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=58490
Did Egyptian President Anwar Sadat do Israel a favor when in May 1973 he rejected an initiative by Henry Kissinger that could have restored Egyptian sovereignty to all of Sinai and instead opted to...
Election Letter to my American Friends
Sherwin@atid-edi.com
Sherwin Pomerantz, a 29 year resident of Israel. is President of Atid-EDI Ltd., a Jerusalem-based economic development consulting firm and a former National President of the Association of Americans and Canadians in Israel
My fellow...
What people of Sderot needs is emergency mental health assistance.
By David Bedein, writing from the perspective of an MSW.
The Sderot Mental Health Center for the Western Negev now handles 3,000 cases of mental breakdown with three and a half professional staffers.
All requests of...
Psychological Warfare in Pillar of Defense
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Controls/SendFriend.ashx?print=1&type=1&item=12472
The tentative ceasefire with Hamas is the beginning of the real war - the political one. This is a good time to assess the psychological dimension of the operation and prepare for the next...
Israel Renews Cash To Gaza
Israel, less than a week after its missile war, plans to renew massive cash transfers to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.
The Israel Law Center said the government has approved the imminent transfer of $13.5 million...