Israel Expects Bigger Missile War

Israel's military has been quietly bracing for another missile war with the Gaza Strip. Military sources said this time the Hamas regime in the Gaza Strip could be joined by the Iranian-sponsored Hizbullah. They said...

U.S. funds used for Palestinian textbooks that preach hate

http://washingtonjewishweek.com/main.asp?Section ID=4&SubSectionID=4&ArticleID=16583 Palestinian children are being taught that Israelis are pigs and snakes. So said Arnon Groiss, senior journalist for the Israel Broadcasting Authority's Arabic Radio, during a congressional briefing last week. The schools these young refugees attend...

Chemical Watershed: Momentum Shifts again in Syrian Civil War

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/situation-in-syria-deteriorates-as-west-looks-for-answers-a-919733.html Two and a half years after the beginning of the uprising, Damascus has become an eerily empty city. The streets were deserted last Friday evening in the remaining regime-controlled districts -- from Bab Tuma...

The battle of the Gaza tunnels

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4555677,00.html In July 2010, Yedioth Ahronoth planned to publish a comprehensive investigative report warning of a serious military problem, of which only a handful of experts were aware at the time: Hamas' terror tunnels. At the...

Tom Friedman’s Blood Libel of IDF Tactics against Palestinian Terrorists

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...

American officials: NEXT HIZBULLAH WAR EXPECTED TO BE FIERCER

The next round of Israel's confrontation with Hizbullah was expected to be more fierce than the 33-day war concluded in August. U.S. military analysts expect Israeli ground forces to move rapidly to destroy Hizbullah's short-range...

Immoderate Fatah: A responsible Palestinian representative would be helpful, but there just isn’t one.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is currently in the Middle East. As has been the case in the past, one of her goals is to "strengthen" the "moderate" Mahmoud Abbas. Her desire to do...

NGO Statements on Gaza Again Reflect Political Bias, Lack of Expertise

http://www.ngo-monitor.org/article/ngo_statements_on_gaza_again_reflect_political_bias_lack_of_expertise _ European governments enable exploitation of human rights, int’l law with their funding Jerusalem - The biased responses of human rights organizations to the recent events in Gaza stand in sharp contrast to their prolonged...

Recipe for Terror: A Text Analysis of the Palestinian State Constitution

I. Introduction A. Why a Palestinian State Constitution More than anything else, the Palestinian State Constitution represents the attempt to present to the world the face of a modern Palestinian state. The constitution is meant to...

Repackaging Ehud Barak: Shades of Nixon?

In the Israel Labor Party primary held on Monday, Ehud Barak led the field of candidates to head the Israel Labor Party, to become Labor's leading candidate for the next Prime Minister- assuming that...