Middle East

http://www.romirowsky.com/15051/understanding-unrwa The Palestinian refugee issue has been around since 1948.UNRWA, the United Nations institution dedicated to their preservation, has been in existence since 1950. With the recent re-approval of UNRWA's mandate for more than three years,...

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dbedein/when-a-cease-fire-is-not-a-cease-fire/ In the current conflagration between Israel and Gaza, news agencies mistakenly report that a “cease fire” is being discussed with Hamas. In the imagination of the media, such a “cease fire” might result in the...

http://www.ngo-monitor.org/article/political_ngos_push_for_another_goldstone_pseudo_investigation Following Israel’s response to hundreds of attacks launched from Gaza, the network of international, Palestinian, and Israeli-Arab NGOs have initiated a campaign to replicate the discredited “Goldstone process” of political warfare against Israel, including: calling...

Israeli jets warn residents their home will be targeted by first firing smaller rockets at the roof It is one of several early-warning methods used to alert Palestinians of impending air strikes Video emerges as Israeli...

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=4323&sec=1&title=Orli_Avior_Reporting_from_Ashkelon:_Missile_Hits_My_Neighbor%27s_House_and_Medical_Clinic Around two o’clock yesterday afternoon, a red alert siren went off and I went into the Mamad, the safe room, in my apartment where I heard a two really loud booms. Then the siren...

The Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) today exists as a consortium of campus “clubs” throughout the American and Canadian college systems which work to oppose the existence of Israel and to promote Boycott,...

http://www.arlenefromisrael.info/current-postings/ What a rollercoaster ride the last 24 hours has been with regard to our war with Hamas. Yesterday Egypt announced a proposal for a ceasefire: Both sides would stop firing, and then in 48 hours...

http://www.meforum.org/4752/hamas-wants-to-die It's like the old joke: Why do Jewish men die before their wives? Because they want to. Civilizations for the most part die because they no longer want to live. That is the nub...

http://jcpa.org/article/iran-the-regional-power-behind-the-hamas-war-effort/#sthash.BCfPFQpk.dpuf Vol. 14, No. 23 July 15, 2014 Iran is an arsonist, inflaming the conflicts in the Middle East. Since the 2012 “Pillar of Defense Operation,” Iran has heavily invested in improving the quantity and quality...

http://www.meforum.org/4750/the-myth-of-palestinian-centrality The "Palestinian cause" has been at the forefront of discourse on the Middle East for nearly a century. It has long formed the primary common concern of pan-Arab solidarity and its most effective...