America’s Mideast policies need a reality — and morality — check

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/08/19/america-mideast-policies-need-reality-and-morality-check/ On June 4, 2009, President Barack Obama made his historic "New Beginning" speech in Cairo, boldly seeking to harken a new day for the U.S. and the Muslim world. But all the high hopes...

The UNRWA Dilemma

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3979/unrwa-dilemma The Palestinian people, according to a recent study by the Jerusalem Institute of Justice, have received per capita, adjusted for inflation, 25 times more aid than did Europeans to rebuild war-torn Western Europe under...

Israel Worried Over Syrian Plan

Officials said the sudden reversal by President Barack Obama, who pressured Israel and American Jews to support an attack on Syria, suggested that the administration was pursuing a reconciliation with Iran. They said Teheran...

Israel’s role in Turkey’s Chinese missile deal

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/news/world/2013/10/13/Israel-s-role-in-Turkey-s-Chinese-missile-deal.html Surprising many in the West, Turkey has selected a Chinese firm under U.S. sanctions to build its long-range air and missile defense system (T-Loramid) with low cost and possibility of a technology transfer. Both NATO...

An Open Letter

April 8, 2002 Jerusalem Dear Friends, As we continue to face critical days and mounting pressures, I feel, it important to share firsthand some thoughts on the events of the last few days. President Bush's statement Wednesday...

After Arafat

When Yasir Arafat became seriously ill in late 2003, Palestinians were near panic for several days. Officials did not know how to handle the crisis. Ahmad Dudin, former Fatah leader in the Hebron region,...

Commentary: The Saudi Plan and more

I would like to return to the entire issue of the Saudi peace plan and whatever negotiations Israel may or may not have with the Palestinians or with Abbas in particular. Let me begin by...

The World Should Know What He [KUNTAR] Did to My Family

Abu Abbas, the former head of a Palestinian terrorist group who was captured in Iraq on April 15, is infamous for masterminding the 1985 hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro. But there...

Benny Morris: “The 1948 War Was an Islamic Holy War”

https://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#search/middle+east+forum/12c06c8e5b7552af MiddleEast Quarterly Summer 2010, pp. 63-69 (view PDF) Benny Morris is professor of history in the MiddleEast Studies Department at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Be'er Sheva, Israel. For many years, his academic...

Close but no cigar: Human Rights Watch mentions launching weapons from civilian areas in...

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=59521 Here is what the top Palestinian NGO once wrote: "Palestinian Centre for Human Rights...Warns of the dangers caused by continued manufacturing or storage of explosive devices by Palestinian resistance groups in civilian-populated areas, which threaten...