Palestinian workers back Scarlett Johansson’s opposition to SodaStream boycott (+video)

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Security-Watch/2014/0130/Palestinian-workers-back-Scarlett-Johansson-s-opposition-to-SodaStream-boycott-video The Jewish actress's promotion of the company in a Superbowl ad has propelled an international campaign to boycott the home sodamaker and today forced the actress to step down as a global ambassador for...

Palestinians denounce ‘financial blackmail’

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2014/01/palestinians-denounce-financial-blackmail-2014129131614744621.html ? Hebron, Occupied West Bank - Palestinian leaders have reacted angrily to what they see as a veiled threat by the European Union over the dispersal of financial aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA)...

Israel’s Growing Role in Southern Syria

http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/israels-growing-role-in-southern-syria As the fighting in Syria rages, Israel has been moving cautiously and often reluctantly toward assuming a modest role in the civil war, restricted to areas along the Golan Heights frontier line. What began...

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,...

Weekly Commentary: The Pig Pilot Checklist

http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=63044 It is both frustrating and disturbing. There is a group of people pushing for the creation of an independent sovereign Palestinian state who have consistently been on the wrong side of history for over two...

EDITOR’S DISPATCH FROM THE DAVID CITADEL HOTEL: HARPER WOWS ISRAEL

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=4046&sec=1&title=EDITOR%27S_DISPATCH_FROM_THE_DAVID_CITADEL_HOTEL:__HARPER_WOWS_ISRAEL There is no question that Prime Minister Stephen Harper is very popular in Israel and that Canada is considered Israel's best friend in the world. As a driver for one of Israel's Knesset members from...

Congress secretly approves U.S. weapons flow to ‘moderate’ Syrian rebels

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-usa-syria-rebels-20140127,0,3701116.story WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Light arms supplied by the United States are flowing to "moderate" Syrian rebel factions in the south of the country and U.S. funding for months of further deliveries has been approved...

Israelis Rally Against US Plan For Strategic Jordan Valley

http://www.defensenews.com/article/20140125/DEFREG04/301250025/Israelis-Rally-Against-US-Plan-Strategic-Jordan-Valley GIDRON OUTPOST, SARTABA RIDGE, JORDAN VALLEY - As US Secretary of State John Kerry finalizes proposals for an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal, rifts remain as vast as this strategic valley west of the Jordan River...

Palestinian foreign minister: We will never recognize Jewish character of Israel

http://www.aawsat.net/2014/01/article55327533 Paris, Asharq Al-Awsat-Unsurprisingly, the latest round of talks between Israel and Palestine has been no less difficult than previous ones, with US Secretary of State John Kerry warning shortly before the talks began last...

The Threat of the “Salafi Crescent

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: While Israel and the West are focused on the Iranian threat, another dangerous entity is emerging in the Middle East. Attempts by al-Qaeda and other radical Sunni Islamist groups to challenge the...