Pros and cons of Geneva deal
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4457133,00.html
The agreement signed early Sunday in Geneva between the world powers and Iran is a reasonable agreement and even a good one - as long as it really is an interim agreement which will...
Yossi Kuperwasser analyses Palestinian incitement
http://www.bicom.org.uk/analysis-article/17311/
On Monday 11 November, Brig. Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser, the Director General of Israel’s Ministry for Strategic Affairs, who leads a project to monitor and evaluate Palestinian incitement against Israel, addressed a forum on...
The victims of Syria’s war finding care in Israel
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24998618
In the maternity unit at the Sieff Hospital in the Israeli city of Tzfat, the safe arrival of every baby feels like a minor miracle.
But on the day we visited, there was one little...
Shia-Sunni schism: A challenge to world peace
http://dawn.com/news/1057412/shia-sunni-schism-a-challenge-to-world-peace
The recent violence in Rawalpindi or the bombing of the Iranian embassy in Beirut are not the only manifestations of the intra-Muslim sectarian discord. The inability of Muslims to settle a 7th century dispute...
First-Person Testimony: I Watched a Firebomb Aimed at a School Bus Fly Towards Me
http://www.idfblog.com/2013/11/19/first-person-testimony-watched-firebomb-aimed-school-bus-fly-towards/
Last week, I saw my life flash before my eyes, and felt the terrible fear of dying.
I was traveling on a road in Samaria. A bus full of children returning from school came down...
After surviving ‘death boat,’ Palestinians locked up in Egypt
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2013/Nov-20/238373-after-surviving-death-boat-palestinians-locked-up-in-egypt.ashx#axzz2lGeNfv5d
A Palestinian passenger, hoping to cross into Egypt, sits behind a fence as she waits at the Rafah crossing between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip November 19, 2013. (REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa)ALEXANDRIA, Egypt: After...
Vive la Freeze!
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/11/20/vive_la_freeze_rouhani_diplomacy?page=0,0
Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman is back in Geneva, making another go at an interim agreement between Iran and the so-called E3/EU+3. (That's "E3" as in three European countries: Britain,...
How to strengthen the interim Iran deal
http://www.middleeast-armscontrol.com/2013/11/19/how-to-strengthen-the-interim-iran-deal/
Press reports make it clear that the interim deal will bring Iran into compliance with none of its key international legal obligations as spelled out in applicable Security Council resolutions. These resolutions explicitly require...
The Point of No Return: Clearly the Obama Administration Won’t Ever Do Anything Serious...
http://rubinreports.blogspot.co.il/2013/11/the-point-of-no-return-clearly-obama.html
*David Gerstman has kindly sent this three-year-old article to me, which is still relevant today.
We must now face an extremely unpleasant truth: even giving the Obama Administration every possible break regarding its Iran policy,...