Lebanon

The Palestinian Authority is under heavy international pressure, mostly American, aimed at facilitating the transition from proximity talks to direct negotiations with Israel. The written message recently sent by President Obama to Palestinian Chairman Mahmud...

August 4, 2010 http://www.gloria-center.org/blog/2010/08/todays-media-bias-against-israel Along Israel's border with Lebanon, east of Metulla, some bushes were pushing in on the border fence. The fence is set in slightly from the border precisely so that Israeli soldiers can...

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...

A specter is haunting the prospective Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations-the specter of the Nakba. The literal meaning of the Arabic word is “disaster”; but in its current, expansive usage, it connotes a historical catastrophe inflicted...

JINSA has long expressed concern about military skills being transmitted by the U.S. to a Palestinian Authority military force while the Palestinian government remains openly hostile to Jewish sovereignty in the Middle East. The...

http://www.gloria-center.org/gloria/2010/07/losing-scent-in-south-lebanon Last week, the IDF released evidence of Hizbullah stockpiling of weaponry in populated civilian areas of southern Lebanon. The IDF material showed an aerial map of the Shi'ite town of El Khiam. The...

= July 1, 2010 http://www.gloria-center.org/gloria/2010/07/cia-chief-says-al-qaida-weaker CIA chief Leon Panetta says al-Qaida is at its weakest point since before the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. He's probably right, though the amount of decline in the...

Columnist Tom Friedman , in the June 27 edition of the New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/27/opinion/27friedman.html?_r=1&ref=thomaslfriedman updates a medieval blood libel against Jews by comparing the tactics of Israel's defense forces in counter-terrorism operations to...

As the world decries Israel's attempt to defend itself from the rocket attacks coming from Gaza, consider this: When Hamas routed Fatah in Gaza in 2007, it cost nearly 350 lives and 1,000 wounded. Fatah's...

There was no need to endanger Israeli troops. How could Ehud Barak not see the looming disaster? Stopping a large Gaza-bound ship could have been carried out below the waterline, or by an assault on...