The Vatican’s Sin of Omission

Last week, Pope Benedict XVI vowed to Rome's former chief rabbi that he would renew the Vatican's commitment to Catholic-Jewish dialogue. The statement, which came at the same time that Germany unveiled its new...

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen: Ready to play hardball

Photo by: courtesy The new House Foreign Affairs Committee chairwoman says she is determined to ‘show Israel that we are strongly in its corner.' WASHINGTON - Ileana Ros-Lehtinen wasn’t pleased. She had just moved into her...

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...

OPEN LETTER BY IRANIAN CANADIANS EXPRESSES GRAVE CONCERN REGARDING CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL’S CONFERENCE IN...

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=1001&sec=1 This letter first published last week in Winnipeg Jewish Review has been referred to by an article in the prestigious website of the Hudson Institute NewYork OPEN LETTER The Honorable Peter MacKay, Minister of National Defense Jennifer...

Incisive Commentary from the Past Ten Days

"A Pre-Sukkot Contemplation" I received an e-mail from a very serious reader (who shall remain anonymous here, as I've not received permission to use his name). Things are dire, he told me with a heavy...

Iran’s Threats to “Arm the West Bank” Must Be Taken Seriously

http://jcpa.org/irans-threats-must-be-taken-seriously/ Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) announced on August 24 that it had shot down an Israeli reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) over its uranium enrichment facilities in Natanz (Esfahan Province). The Guards Corps...

ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER SPOKESWOMAN REASSURES THAT ABBAS HAS NOT SANCTIONED MISSILE ATTACKS. ABBAS’S OFFICERS...

Since Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert now describes Palestinian Authority President and Fateh chairman Machmud Abbas as a "moderate". , This reporter then asked Olmert's press secretary if Israel would demand that Abbas disband the...

NGO: UN renews rights chief Pillay without consultations on her record

http://blog.unwatch.org/index.php/2012/05/15/ngo-un-renews-rights-chief-pillay-without-consultations-on-her-record/ After Ban Ki-moon’s announcement today that he supports a two-year extension for rights commissioner Navi Pillay, a non-governmental watchdog group says that the decision was made - pending the UNGA’s rubber stamp -...

This Week In the Palestinian Authority: Issue Three

Editor's note:Welcome to the third edition of "Inside the PA," a weekly on-line publication designed to provide an open-source and yet valuable insight into the workings of the Palestinian Authority. We will review important...

Hizb ut-Tahrir: Islam Has Replaced Communism as Top U.S. Enemy

http://www.investigativeproject.org/3031/hizb-ut-tahrir-islam-has-replaced-communism-as A radical Islamist group which claims a presence in nearly 50 countries is so confident it can help establish a global Muslim government - or caliphate - that it distributed a draft constitution during...