Middle Eastern Upheavals Enter Round Two

http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2011/08/middle-eastern-upheavals-enter-round-two The following replies to a question posed by National Review Online: "With Qaddafi vowing a win or martyrdom and Assad being urged to step down by the West, what has happened to the Arab...

Terror Attacks on Israel and UNRWA’s Education System

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anav-silverman/ terror-attacks-on-israel-_b_930141.html "Peace starts here," is the key marketing slogan that UNRWA (UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East) uses in its videos, pamphlets, posters and other marketing and fundraising material....

Op-Ed: The Anti-Israel Distortions Industry

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/10516 There is no shortage of claims about alleged Israeli human rights violations in Judea and Samaria, the so called 'West Bank'. Most of these claims originate from Palestinian sources and NGO’s and are part of...

Missing context for terror attacks in Eilat: Egypt demanded Israel cede Eilat in 2006

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=1435&sec=2&title=MISSING_CONTEXT_ FOR__TERROR_ATTACKS_IN_EILAT:EGYPT_DEMANDED_ISRAEL_CEDE_EILAT_IN_2006 Much of the media missed the context of the attacks conducted Thursday morning, north of the Israeli port city of Eilat. These attacks may portend the genesis of the next stage of the Arab-Israeli war,...

The Big Split in the Revolutionary Islamist Movement: Sunni and Shia Blocs Emerge

http://rubinreports.blogspot.com/2011/08/big-split-in-revolutionary-islamist.html A development of huge importance is happening in the Middle East, equivalent perhaps to the Sino-Soviet conflict’s effect on the Cold War era: the division of revolutionary Islamists into separate Sunni and Shia camps. Of...

The Gaza Flotilla and International Law

http://www.hoover.org/publications/policy-review/article/86476 On may 31, 2010, in defense of a naval blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip, Israel seized control of the Mavi Marmara in international waters, detained the passengers, and towed the ship to the...

Jordan’s Protests: Arab Spring Lite?

http://www.fpri.org/enotes/2011/201107.helfont_helfont.jordan.html Samuel Helfont is a Ph.D Candidate in Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University and an Associate Scholar of the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He is the author of Yusuf al-Qaradawi: Islam and Modernity (2009)...

Overcoming Attempted Murder

Dear friends and facebook friends of friends! I am asking you to take a moment - read my story - and consider sponsoring Pia Levine as she participates in the NY Triathlon to raise funds...

Conference stresses Palestinian refugees’ right of return

http://www.petra.gov.jo/Public_News/Nws_NewsDetails.aspx? Site_Id=1&lang=2&NewsID=37756&CatID=13&Type=Home>ype=1 Cairo, July 14 (Petra)--Conference of Supervisors of Palestinian Affairs in Arab Host Countries stressed its strong rejection of unilateral Israeli policies as well as its support to rights of Palestinians, mainly the right of...

The Middle East Turmoil: Its Impact on Arab-Israeli Peace Prospects *

It all started just five months ago, on Dec. 17, 2010, when Mohamed Bouazizi, a young Tunisian fruit peddler in Sidi Bouzidi, south of the Tunisian capital, set himself ablaze after the police seized...