Israel’s new game plan with Hezbollah and Syria

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/2014/02/27/Israel-s-new-game-plan-with-Hezbollah-and-Syria.html Under late Syrian President Hafez al-Assad, and for 29 years, Israel did not once directly strike Syria outside the Arab-Israeli war of 1973. This dynamic is quickly changing today, as the internal conflict spreads...

Origin of the Palestinian claim of a ‘right of return’

http://washingtonjewishweek.com/origin-of-the-palestinian-claim-of-a-right-of-return/ Reports emanating from the current Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations reveal that the Palestinian side continues to demand recognition of “a right of return,” under which about 5 million Palestinians now living outside Israel would migrate...

‘Western Countries Are Funding the Incubators of Terrorism’

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/177821#.Uw0Wcc5h3dY MK Yoni Chetboun (Jewish Home) called a special meeting with over 40 diplomats from dozens of countries Monday to present the hard facts on how Western funds are being used in Palestinian Arab schools...

The impotence of foreign forces

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=15667 On the morning of March 14, 2006, an agreement hatched by the United States and a number of European countries and which sprang from Israeli jails the killers of former minister Rehavam Ze'evi and...

US Congress Worried Over Lebanese Mil

House and Senate members have expressed worry that U.S. aid to Lebanon's military and security forces could end up with the Iranian-sponsored Hizbullah. Congress has determined that Hizbullah controlled much of Lebanon's military and...

New Israeli Unit Targets Syrian Border Threats

http://www.defensenews.com/article/20140216/DEFREG04/302160013/New-Israeli-Unit-Targets-Syrian-Border-Threats Israel is flexing its military muscle at the Golan Heights frontier with the latest intelligence collection technologies and a new frontline division dedicated to combating multiplying threats spawned by war raging in Syria. Inaugurated late...

Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the “Clash within a Civilization”

http://csis.org/publication/saudi-arabia-iran-and-clash-within-civilization No one has ever been able to travel to the Gulf without discovering just how different the perspectives and values of the West and the Middle East can be. During the last two...

Palestine’s Peace Bomb

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/01/31/palestine_israel_peace_bomb_demographics One of the key arguments of Israel's "peace camp" is that, without a two-state solution, the state faces a "demographic time-bomb." The contention is that perpetuating Israeli control over the growing Arab population of...

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,...