Israel Intelligence Assessment: Iran Unlikely To Start War

Israel has assessed that Iran was unlikely to launch a regional war even its nuclear infrastructure was destroyed. Israel's leading strategic institute has concluded that Teheran would demonstrate restraint in wake of an Israeli strike...

Why the Israeli-Palestinian Agreement Is Absurd

http://rubinreports.blogspot.co.il/2013/12/why-israeli-palestinian-agreement-is.html It makes sense that the Israel-Palestinian agreement is being made with Obama and Kerry in charge. The deal offers a kind of neo-mandate, with an American presence entrenched in the Jordan Valley for the...

The Threat of the “Salafi Crescent

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: While Israel and the West are focused on the Iranian threat, another dangerous entity is emerging in the Middle East. Attempts by al-Qaeda and other radical Sunni Islamist groups to challenge the...

The Truth Behind the Palestinian Water Libels

http://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/truth-behind-palestinian-water-libels/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=truth-behind-palestinian-water-libels EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Water shortages in the Palestinian Authority are the result of Palestinian policies that deliberately waste water and destroy the regional water ecology. The Palestinians refuse to develop their own significant underground water...

In every generation…writes Michael Kuttner

http://www.jwire.com.au/featured-articles/in-every-generation-writes-michael-kuttner/41852#more-41852 Once again as we have done since the Exodus of our ancestors from Egypt, Jews worldwide will be sitting down together with family and friends to recount the dramas associated with that history making...

The U.S. Has Been Speaking To Hamas Through Back Channels For More Than Six...

http://www.buzzfeed.com/sheerafrenkel/the-us-has-been-speaking-to-hamas-through-backchannels-for-o JERUSALEM - United States officials have been holding secret back-channel talks with Hamas over the last six months to discuss their role in the newly formed unity government, according to two senior diplomatic sources...

Envoy: Hamas the’ Real Culprit’ in UN School Strike

http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/insideisrael/2014/August/Envoy-Hamas-the-Real-Culprit-in-UN-School-Strike/ Israel is facing fresh accusations of hitting another UN school in Gaza Sunday. That comes as Israel appears to be scaling back in fight for now and preparing for a possible drawdown. A number of tanks...

A first-person account of the tragic earthquake in Nepal

It was Saturday morning, usually a quieter day at the Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish center in Kathmandu, Nepal, when the ground began trembling beneath our feet. Running outside, I witnessed absolute destruction. Buildings crumbled in front of my eyes —...

Israel’s people want peace too. Pressure doesn’t help

If progress towards peace has stalled, it is not because the Israeli people have lost the will to make bold decisions. They need constructive international engagement, not criticism his month I return to Israel after...

When Deterrence Becomes Just a Word

Deterrence -- the act of deterring especially deterring a nuclear attack by the capacity or threat of retaliating. Since Israel's unilateral withdrawal in 2005, the Gaza Strip has turned into the leading military foe of...