Israel’s South Surviving Next Round of Gaza Rockets

A rocket war rages in the south of Israel as more than 200 rockets have been fired at urban areas since Friday afternoon, following Israel's killing of the leader of the Popular Resistance Committee...

Smugglers’ tunnels are Hamas’ lifeblood

http://www.salon.com/2012/02/27/smugglers_tunnels_are_hamas_lifeblood/singleton/ A Palestinian sits in a smuggling tunnel beneath the Egyptian-Gaza border in Rafah. (Credit: Reuters//Ibraheem Abu Mustafa) RAFAH, Gaza Strip - The first things you notice are the trucks, entering Rafah’s dusty main thoroughfare from small...

Wilf to ambassadors: UNRWA an obstacle to peace

http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=256093 By REUTERS The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) is one of the greatest stumbling blocks to the peace process, MK Einat Wilf (Independence) said at a meeting with 65 ambassadors and...

Parents Forum for Justice

Parents Forum for Justice ParentsForumForJustice.blogspot.com 1-201-256-1516 parents.forum.for.justice@gmail.com January 19, 2012 The Honorable Eric H. Holder Attorney General of the United States Department of Justice Robert F. Kennedy Building Washington, D.C. Dear Mr. Attorney General: We the undersigned are parents whose children, all citizens of the...

A Palestinian civil intifada

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=1096 The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) published its December 2011 report on Monday, contending that in 2016 Jews will become a minority between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. According to the...

Secretary of Defense Panetta Shows How the Obama Administration is Selling Out Israel and...

http://www.gloria-center.org/2011/12/secretary-of-defense-panetta-shows -how-the-obama-administration-is-selling-out-israel-and-us-interests/ In a major address on U.S. Middle East policy to the Brookings Institution U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta gave us a clear picture of the Obama administration’s view of the region. When taken...

The medical war on Israel

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4153223,00.html Israel was excluded from the International Red Cross for half a century because of the Star of David. Questioned for having denied entry to the Jewish state, Cornelio Sommaruga, then-head of the International Committee...

Palestinian Solidarity Day — The U.N.’s Annual Attempt to Turn Back the Clock

Notwithstanding alleged U.N. support for a two-state solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict, at New York Headquarters Tuesday only the flag of the non-state of Palestine was flown alongside the U.N.’s own flag. The flag...

Why Don’t Western Elites Get the Middle East? Because They Think It’s Just Like...

http://pjmedia.com/barryrubin/2011/11/18/why-don%e2%80%99t-western- elites-get-the-middle-east-because-they-think-it%e2%80%99s-just-like-them-sort-of/ I’ve come to realize a hitherto hidden dimension of why it is so hard for Western establishment figures (policymakers, journalists, and academics) to understand the Middle East. It is the conflict between the thirst...

Blaming the Victim

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2059519/Benjamin-Netanyahu -Barack-Obama-Nicolas-Sarkozy-blaming-victim.html?ito=feeds-newsxml # One of the most egregious signs of western irrationality and bigotry over the issue of Israel is the way in which its Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is routinely scapegoated for causing the breakdown...