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It was announced last night that United States President George W. Bush will make his first official visit - while in office - to Israel and the Palestinian Authority in January. This visit will be...

December 6, 2007 "Stumbling Blocks" Here we have, as if they were needed, more reasons why negotiating with the PA is impossible: The Hamas-dominated Palestinian Legislative Council has passed a law (first reading) saying that any concession...

It warned of a retaliatory attack by Hezbollah to mark the anniversary of the death of Imad Mughniyah, a high-ranking operative of the organization, in February of last year. An attack by Hezbollah against Israeli...

An area where Israel continues to cope with is the world wide campaign against Israel’s restrictions of potentially lethal exports into Gaza. Since the Hamas terror takeover of Gaza in June 2007, Israel did halt...

The ruling Fatah movement has been bolstered by dozens of military commanders abroad, some of whom prepared to stay in the West Bank. Nearly 100 Fatah commanders and senior operatives have arrived in the West Bank for...

The author was formerly senior advisor in the Privy Council Office serving Canada's Prime Minister and the federal cabinet. Earlier he worked in Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs and taught history and law at...

This dispatch can also be read online at: www.tomgrossmedia.com/mideastdispatches/archives/001129.html There has been a significant increase in attacks on Israel in recent days. * Yesterday, a senior Israeli officer was killed and another seriously wounded by a sniper...

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=210724 If the mullahs aren’t overthrown, the New Middle East will be a very dark and dangerous place. A new Middle East is upon us and its primary beneficiary couldn’t be happier. In a speech Monday in the...

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....

http://blogs.cfr.org/abrams/2011/12/28/what-would-a-hamas-fatah-agreement-mean/ There are repeated efforts to forge a unity agreement of some sort between Hamas and Fatah, leading to a new “unity government” for the Palestinian Authority. Such a coalition was briefly in force in...