Middle East

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/senator-menendez-to-ajc-palestinian-unity-has-consequences-262378181.html SUMMIT, N.J., June 9, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- "Palestinians must choose between peace with Israel as a Jewish state and a marriage with Hamas, a terrorist organization," Senator Robert Menendez declared at the AJC New...

Interviewee: Michael Young, Opinion Editor, Daily StarInterviewer: Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting EditorJune 5, 2014http://www.cfr.org/syria/iran-gains-assad-victory/p33064 With Syrian president Bashar al-Assad claiming a sweeping electoral victory, one party set to gain in influence is Iran, says Lebanon-based expert...

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4346/hamas-western-aid Less than a week after its inauguration, the Hamas-Fatah unity government is already facing its first crisis as it remains unclear which party will pay salaries to tens of thousands of Hamas employees in...

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=64019 "Cold-Blooded Murder" or a War on Terror?Lt. Col. (ret.) Jonathan D. HaleviJerusalem Issue Briefs Vol. 14, No. 18 June 9, 2014http://jcpa.org/article/cold-blooded-murder-or-a-war-on-terror/ -Saeb Erekat, the chief Palestinian negotiator, claims that all the Palestinian "victims" since the...

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=64015 "you have to consider your every word and every action" - this from the man who has made every effort to promote the standing of Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority in the world...

http://www.jwire.com.au/featured-articles/illusions-and-delusions-writes-michael-kuttner/42905#more-42905 Like confidence tricksters who manage to fool multitudes with their snake oil type smooth talk current developments bear an uncanny resemblance to these fraudsters. There is a saying that a fool is born every...

http://www.the-american-interest.com/articles/2014/06/02/taking-irans-anti-semitism-seriously/ Radical, theologically based hatred of Judaism, Zionism, and the state of Israel is part of the core ideological beliefs of the leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Yet U.S. policymakers all too rarely...

The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs reports that the Teheran regime approved and facilitated the establishment of a Hizbullah force in Syria. In a report, the center said Hizbullah, representing Iranian interests, would operate...

http://www.buzzfeed.com/sheerafrenkel/the-us-has-been-speaking-to-hamas-through-backchannels-for-o JERUSALEM - United States officials have been holding secret back-channel talks with Hamas over the last six months to discuss their role in the newly formed unity government, according to two senior diplomatic sources...

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4341/fatah-abbas-dictator Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has finally made peace with Hamas. But will he able to extinguish the fire that has erupted in his own backyard? Earlier this week, Abbas decided to expel five "unruly"...