What Abbas Missed in His UN Speech

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4001/abbas-un-speech As Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was delivering his speech at the General Assembly of the United Nations last week, one of his officials in Ramallah revealed that 250,000 out of the approximately 600,000...

Sunny with Light Missile Cover Here in Tel Aviv

http://pjmedia.com/spengler/2014/07/10/sunny-with-light-missile-cover-here-in-tel-aviv/ Sunny with light missile cover in Tel Aviv this morning. I awoke to muffled thuds in the distance, Iron Dome shooting down Syrian-made missiles launched from Gaza, according to news reports. I attended the...

High Level US Defense Establishment Sources Reveal: Sharon has set May 1st as the...

Israel Resource News Agency has learned from highly placed sources in the US Defense Department that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has informed the US government that he intends to implement the retreat from...

Egypt Enables Hamas To Train In Iran

This weekend marks 30 years since the late Egyptian president Anwar Sadat flew to Israel to declare his desire for peace with Israel, only four years after Mr. Sadat had launched a full scale...

Israel’s Predicament at 60

Two religiously-identified new states emerged from the shards of the British empire in the aftermath of World War II. Israel, of course, was one; the other was Pakistan. They make an interesting, if little-compared pair....

An Israeli Watershed: Strike on Syria

Summer 2008, pp. 57-62 On the morning of September 6, 2007, Israel Air Force (IAF) planes penetrated deep into Syrian airspace and attacked a nuclear facility near the town of Dayr al-Zur in the northeastern...

Missing major questions] Analysis: Netanyahu’s demilitarized state

The huge issues surrounding Netanyahu's demilitarized state are not how many and what gizmos the PA "security forces" can have. The big questions are: #1. Who decides there is a violation? It sounds like Israel would agree to...

Analysis: The UN Human Rights Council

This story involves the UN Human Rights Council, The Council, you must understand, is not a two-bit operation. It has sizeable headquarters in Geneva: ~~~~~~~~~~ Reversing the policy of his predecessor, George Bush, who shunned the Council,...

The Role of Hamas in the Formation of Global Jihadi Networks in Sinai

http://jcpa.org/article/the-role-of-hamas-in-the-formation-of-global-jihadi-networks-in-sinai/ Vol. 12, No. 18 After the Rafah attack, it was noticeable that the Egyptian government refrained from condemning the terrorists’ plan to carry out a mass-casualty attack in Israel. Indeed, senior Muslim Brotherhood figures pointed...

Insight in the News in Israel

Posting: November 20, 2008 "Lunacy" It seems fairly pervasive. And I'll provide just two examples here, both touching on issues I've raised in the last day or two: In response to increased launching of rockets from Gaza,...