Israel

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/mrkerry-un-spins-jewish-leaders_745877.html Secretary of State John Kerry met with a group of key Jewish leaders this past week, and was accompanied by the administration's all-star team on "peace process" matters: Martin Indyk, Susan Rice, and Ben...

Former IDF Chief of Staff Moshe Ya'alon said he sees a clear connection between last summer's disengagement, the escalating situation in southern Israel and the Second Lebanon war. "Forty years after the Six Day War,...

Matters of Immediate Concern 1. There has been disregard of legal decisions of grave criminality. The offenses of many of those being released are admitted to involve multiple crimes of the most serious character possible. To ignore...

www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1093404.html By next year, nothing will remain of the demilitarization stipulation that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has set for the formation of a Palestinian state, Infrastructure Minister Uzi Landau warned on Tuesday at an event sponsored by Yisrael...

The Israel Knesset Parliament will finally  convene again after a 15 month hiatus. That means that The Knesset Lobby for UNRWA reform can now convene,  once again. Volunteers sought to influence donors  to reform UNRWA according...

There are many ways to describe Yasser Arafat, but whether one tends to call him a "politician," "statesman" or "terrorist," any fair estimation of Arafat would have to call him an "Egyptian intellectual." Arafat studied...

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/13776#.UieKMxXn_IU Warfare is a very serious business whose first imperative is to deploy force to win - rather than to punish, make a statement, establish a symbolic point, or preen about one's morality. Yet, these latter...

http://www.inss.org.il/publications.php?cat=21&incat=&read=11991 On Wednesday, August 28, 2013, President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron affirmed that a chemical weapons attack had taken place in Syria the previous week and "there was no doubt that...

http://www.meforum.org/3364/unrwa-refugees-resettled The question whether the U.N. Relief and Work Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has successfully reintegrated Palestinian refugees into the normal life of the Middle East has long been a...

CALLING EUROPE! The internationally-lauded "disengagement" from Gaza did not end the occupation there. This continued in the form of an Israeli stranglehold over Gaza's communications with the outside world. The Gaza Strip has been turned...