Some US Congressional leaders worry that Gaza pullout amounts to appeasement

Nobody in the Republican-controlled Congress wants to be seen as opposing the wishes of both Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and the Bush administration. But quietly, the unilateral Israeli pullout from the Gaza Strip...

Israel’s Test

The issues facing Israel today are existential, in the most literal sense. It is therefore a matter of grave concern when Israelis who ought to know better offer panaceas that can only bring harm. As...

The threat of Israel boycotts more bark than bite

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/23/us-palestinians-israel-boycott-analysis-idUSBREA1M0OI20140223 (Reuters) - Though voices are getting louder inside and outside Israel about the threat of economic boycotts for its continued occupation of Palestinian territories, there seems little prospect of it facing measures with real...

Analysis by Rachel Avraham: Donor Nations Must Reform UNRWA

http://www.jerusalemonline.com/news/middle-east/the-arab-world/analysis-by-rachel-avraham-donor-nations-must-reform-unrwa-3388 Jews are "the wolf"Photo Credit: Channel 2 Since Israel’s War of Independence, millions of descendants of Palestinian refugees have been living across the Middle East in the surrounding Arab host countries, especially in Jordan, Lebanon,...

Why Israel Conquered The Golan Heights

The course of history can be changed by the determination of one man who stands up for what he believes in when he is listened to by people who are in a position of...

Canada, The Middle East Peace Process, UNRWA and “Right of Return”

Canada plays a unique and almost unreported crucial role in the Middle East Peace Process - holding the gavel of the RWG, the "refugee working group", which oversees the work of UNRWA, the United...

Official PA radio news – The P.B.C. VOP (Voice of Palestine) Radio: January 18th

Summary and Analysis VOP led its headlines with the daylight murder yesterday of Hisham Maki in Gaza, but Maki was not characterized today as a "martyr"-which would have been obligatory had he been killed by...

Anti-Israeli networks and activists from the Middle East and beyond intend to initiate propaganda...

http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/ipc_e241.htm Overview 1. Regardless of the last flotilla's failure to reach the Gaza Strip, anti-Israeli organizations and activists intend to continue challenging Israel with "awareness-raising" events, including flotillas, convoys and fly-ins. In some instances, the behind-the-scenes...

2 Helicopters and 50 APCS

Next week, Russian President Vladimir Putin will land in Israel for an historic visit, while Russian involvement in the region, which has been criticized many times by Israel, continues at full speed. In the...

Fact-Free Middle East Negotiations?

The dispute between Israel and the Palestinian Authority with regard to the freezing of Israeli construction in Judea and Samaria (aka the West Bank) is predicated on the assumption that Israel's border is the...