Commentary: Olmert’s Refusal to Establish a Commission of Inquiry and Other issues at hand

Prime Minister Olmert angered many members of Knesset across the political spectrum -- including some within his coalition -- when he declined, earlier this week, to set up a full inquiry regarding the war...

Monograph: As Negotiations Resume: The Palestinian Authority Stand on the “Right of Return”

Mahmoud Abbas Of primary interest when examining the position of the Palestinian Authority with regard to the “right of return” is the stand of Mahmoud Abbas (aka Abu Mazen), president of the PA. Abbas’s position on...

The Arab League and peace, after 68 years

http://www.meforum.org/3715/arab-league-peace The disconnect between the past and the present in the Middle East is growing fast. Consider the anachronism called the Arab League. In December, after an "emergency meeting" called by Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, Arab...

Analysis: Understanding What is Now Transpiring in Egypt

January 31, 2011 "Convoluted and Painful Process" The issues are anything but simple, and resolution of the situation in Egypt will not happen overnight, or in a week or a month. I do not intend to...

Sermon on Temple Mount

The International Conspiracy Against This Deen: The Pope's Visit In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. Praise be to Allah, the Cherisher and Sustainer of the worlds, and may peace be upon prophet Muhammad,...

What We Can Learn From the Libel of the Jenin Massacre

On Monday night, December 6th, Israel Broadcasting Corporation Channel One screened Martin Himmel's documentary "Jenin: Massacring the Truth" describing how the international media defamed the State of Israel by transmitting the accusation that the...

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...

War With Iran ‘Inevitable,’ Former Israeli Deputy Defense Chief Says

War between Iran and Israel is "inevitable," a former deputy defense minister retired Maj. Gen. Efraim Sneh told NewsMax in an exclusive interview from his home near Tel Aviv. Sneh, who ran Israel's defense ministry...

Jenin Redux: UNRWA Once Again Misleads the Media

Four years ago, Israel launched Operation Defensive Shield in response to a spate of horrendous suicide bombings. The theater of operations was the West Bank, specifically the UNRWA refugee camp in Jenin, referred to...

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...