Middle East

http://www.majalla.com/eng/2013/12/article55247557 This week saw further clashes between the two rival power centers vying for influence over Iranian foreign and domestic policy. In one corner stands a faction dedicated to rehabilitating Iran’s international standing, epitomized by...

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2013/12/17/israel-palestine-and-democracy/ Democracy and demography have become the main arguments for creating a Jew-free Arab state in Judea and Samaria. Israel’s presence in the territories deprives Palestinians of their democratic rights, the argument goes, and if...

http://www.gloria-center.org/2013/12/a-look-at-international-survey-data-about-arab-opinion/ This article evaluates Arab public opinion with the “Arab Opinion Index” by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies (ACRPS) in Doha, Qatar. The Index covers 12 Arab countries with 85 percent...

http://rubinreports.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/lying-about-israel.html About 10-20 slanders (at least) are issued against Israel each day. They are frequently complete fabrications and from academia, media, or accusations mostly made up out of whole cloth. Lying is either simply reported...

The big news here in Israel has to do with winter, all right. But most definitely not the Islamic sort (which I'll get to below). We've been hit with severe weather. In Jerusalem, it started...

http://popular-resistance.blogspot.com/2013/12/snow-and-subserviance.html It is snowing here in Palestine. My visitors from Gaza (a child being treated and his father) wish to go back to their family even though their wife tells us that they have no...

http://freebeacon.com/congress-seeks-to-reset-terms-of-iran-deal/ House lawmakers are pushing a measure to reset the terms of a controversial nuclear accord reached between Iran and Western nations several weeks ago in Geneva, according to a copy of the bill obtained...

http://www.newsmaxworld.com/newswidget/israel-iran-terror-latinamerica/2013/12/11/id/541140?promo_code=F53B-1&utm_source=Debka&utm_medium=nmwidget&utm_campaign=widgetphase1 Iran has developed a terrorist infrastructure in the Western Hemisphere to target local Jews and gain the capability of attacking the United States, according to Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon. Yaalon warned that Tehran, which...

http://www.jewishexponent.com/the-palestinians-and-their-state-of-failure Secretary of State John Kerry launched a new round of Palestinian-Israeli diplomacy this summer. The naysayers said he would fail, yet the negotiations continue apace, with Kerry hoping to score a diplomatic victory by...

The following is an edited (expanded and updated) open letter, which Seva Brodsky originally wrote to Nancy Kaufman (former Executive Director of Boston's JCRC, present head of the National Council of Jewish Women ),...