Middle East

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=6651 Western policymakers and media have misconstrued/misrepresented the Palestinian refugee issue, ignoring its global context and core data. Moreover, the Palestinian claim of dispossession -- which impacts the U.S. financial aid to UNRWA, and is...

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/joseph-klein/the-u-n-s-year-of-solidarity-with-the-palestinians/ In yet another display of pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel bias, the United Nations decided that observing the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People annually on November 29th was simply not enough. November 29th was...

http://www.i24news.tv/app.php/en/opinion/131208-the-un-s-palestinian-refugee-agency-is-a-farce With much international media coverage, a photo exhibition called “The Long Journey” opened at the end of November in the old city of Jerusalem. A few dozen black and white images from the archives...

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4104/palestinians-hitler-jamal-abu-al-rub Abbas, it seems, has lost control not only over the Gaza Strip, but also his Fatah faction. The widespread support for "Hitler" reflects the state of dissatisfaction with Abbas and his top aides....

Lawyers for the family of Daniel Wultz, a 16-year-old American killed in a suicide bombing in Israel in 2006, asked a U.S. federal court on Tuesday to reject Israel’s attempt to prevent a key...

http://rubinreports.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/meanwhile-on-israels-lebanese-border.html On December 15, an Israeli jeep was driving along the Israel-Lebanese border near the coast, in a quiet area, which hadn’t seen war for decades. Suddenly a shot rang out. A warrant officer fell...

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=14003 If international legitimacy for the settlement enterprise were a horse, one could say that it's been long out of the barn. Those roaming the halls of power worldwide -- from the White House in...

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=6651 Western policymakers and media have misconstrued/misrepresented the Palestinian refugee issue, ignoring its global context and core data. Moreover, the Palestinian claim of dispossession -- which impacts the U.S. financial aid to UNRWA, and is...

http://icsr.info/2013/12/icsr-insight-11000-foreign-fighters-syria-steep-rise-among-western-europeans/ Since ICSR published its first estimate in April, the issue of foreign fighters in Syria has become a major concern for Western governments. More reports have emerged since, though few have accurately gauged the...

http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=6213 The tide is changing in the Syrian civil war. Bashar al-Assad and his regime are gaining momentum, the opposition is weakening, and some of its major traditional supporters seem to be reconsidering their position....