ISRAEL ABSORBS PALESTINIAN MISSILE STRIKES

Israel's military has been ordered not to respond to Palestinian missile strikes. Israeli military sources said Southern Command was banned from sending ground troops into the northern Gaza Strip to halt Palestinian gunners. They said the...

Israel – The American Interest

The question of whether Israel is or is not an asset to the United States is one we rarely bother to ask ourselves. Time and again, we see prominent Americans -- presidents of the...

Arabs have no choice but to possess nuclear arms

Amid a flurry of recent reports about North Korea's nuclear test, Egypt was mentioned as the sole Arab country with the potential to make a substantial nuclear development because Cairo declared the resumption of...

Is the Olmert Administration taking the situation in Gaza seriously?

This week the IDF pulled out from the Philadelphi Corridor after only searching some 10% of the 15 kilometer long band that separates between Egyptian Sinai and the Gaza Strip. The soldiers weren't withdrawn because...

Hamas has established a control center for missile strikes against Israel

Hamas has been operating a C2 center to coordinate Kassam-class, short-range missile attacks against Israel. Israeli military sources said Hamas, with help from the Iranian-sponsored Hizbullah, established several such centers in the northern Gaza...

Commentary: The Danger of Hudna

This past week Ma'ariv reported on a tentative plan being worked on, and reportedly covertly discussed between Israelis and Palestinians, that would involve a pullback from substantial parts of Judea-Samaria, establishment of a "provisional"...

PLO News Agency report of ceasefire makes no mention of arms smuggling or missile...

{with thanks to Dr. Aaron Lerner of IMRA for locating this article) President Orders Apparatuses to Follow up Halting Rockets towards Israel http://wafa.ps/english/body.asp?id=7656 GAZA, November 26, 2006, (WAFA - PLO news agency)- President Mahmoud Abbas...

Security Guarantees for Israel from the US – Remember the Sinai, 50 Years Ago

The Baker report, mandates that Israel... "Return the Golan to Syria, with US security guarantees to Israel" Exactly fifty years ago, Israel took the Sinai in a defensive war, with firm US security guarantees to...

FACTBOX-How rival Palestinian armed factions stack up

Here's how the Palestinian armed rivals stack up militarily: ABBAS'S PRESIDENTIAL GUARD With U.S. backing, Abbas's elite presidential guard has grown to at least 4,000 men, up from 2,500 members when Hamas took power in March. Last...

Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University.:Sans Action, Iranian Bomb Just A...

"Without military action, an Iranian nuclear bomb is a matter of time," according to the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University. A survey of the strategic balance in the Middle East in...