News Analysis

Lest anyone have mistakenly imagined that my last posting about hope http://israelbehindthenews.com/bin/content.cgi?ID=4180&q=1 (which certainly exists now !) signaled a whole new ballgame, with problems instantaneously diminished on all fronts, I state unequivocally that I...

Israel Minister of Public Diplomacy Yuli Edelstein Receives Postive Reply from Facebook

(Communicated by the Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs Spokesman) March 31, 2011 Attached is a letter from Facebook Director of Policy Richard Allan to Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs Minister Yuli Edelstein regarding the latter's 23.2.11 letter http://israelbehindthenews.com/bin/content.cgi?ID=4330&q=1 to Facebook...

Analysis Paper: REAL CHALLENGES FACE THE INTERIM PALESTINIAN UNITY GOVERNMENT, Dated 18 July 2011

http://www.awrad.org/etemplate.php?id=249&x=4 I. INTRODUCTION On 4 May 2011, Fatah and Hamas announced a surprise Reconciliation Agreement in Cairo. The Agreement included articles on elections, security, the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC). It...

Terrorist Incidents against Jewish Communities and Israeli Citizens Abroad, 1968-2010

http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=3&DBID= 1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=624&PID=0&IID=8920&TTL=Terrorist_Incidents_ against_Jewish_Communities_and_Israeli_Citizens_Abroad,_1968-2010 â— The phenomenon of terrorism against Jewish communities and Israeli targets abroad represents the most violent aspect of contemporary anti-Semitism, and the greatest physical danger to Diaspora Jewish communities. The rational calculations of political...

What to Do About Syria

http://www.gloria-center.org/2012/02/what-to-do-about-syria/ There is a strong case that can be made for doing nothing about the Syrian civil war, but a stronger case can be made for doing something relatively low-cost and ineffective, indeed, precisely what...

The organizations participating in the campaign to delegitimize Israel plan a series of propaganda...

http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/pdf/hamas_e153.pdf Overview 1. The organizations in the Middle East and around the globe participating in the campaign to delegitimize Israel chose March 30, the day Israeli Arabs have marked Land Day since 1976, to hold a...

Now Anyone Can Understand That Israel Isn’t About to Attack Iran

http://rubinreports.blogspot.com/2012/05/now-anyone-can-understand-that-israel.html “After a winter of alarm over the possibility that a military conflict over the Iranian nuclear program might be imminent, American officials and outside analysts now believe that the chances of war in the...

A Toxic Brew in Sinai

http://www.jinsa.org/fellowship-program/jinsa-fellows/toxic-brew-sinai To grasp how badly the security situation in Sinai has deteriorated, one fact suffices: Israel now receives as many intelligence warnings about Sinai-based terror plots as it does about terror from Gaza. This, obviously, is...

Sinai panic creates terror

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4244057,00.html There is apparently no connection between the terror attack on the Israel-Egypt border Monday morning and the Islamic Brotherhood’s claim of victory in Egypt’s presidential elections. According to assessments, the border clash was initiated...

Forensics report gives clues to identity of Sinai attackers

http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/forensics-report-gives-clues-identity-sinai-attackers The initial forensic report on the bodies of the Rafah checkpoint attackers suggests that the perpetrators were wearing military uniforms made in Nablus, Palestine at the time of the attack. Five bodies were 99 percent...