Testing the Iranian nuclear charm offensive

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/Testing-the-Iranian-nuclear-charm-offensive-328801 Negotiations about Iran’s nuclear program are set to resume this week in Geneva between the P5+1 countries (USA, UK, France, Russia, China and Germany) and the new Iranian leadership - arguably the most important...

Palestinian Corruption — Again

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4022/palestinian-corruption If the Palestinian movement believes it lives outside the laws of politics, nature and economics, it may be right. The PA and Hamas occupy a split territory with two feuding governments -- both dictatorships with...

Appeasement won’t reduce the peril of a nuclear Iran

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/10376354/Appeasement-wont-reduce-the-peril-of-a-nuclear-Iran.html Tomorrow morning, more than seven years after the United Nations Security Council first ordered Iran to halt all aspects of its illicit nuclear programme, British and American diplomats - along with representatives of other...

U.S. Ready To Enter ‘Bad’ Iran Deal

WASHINGTON -- The United States was expected to agree to preserve Iran's nuclear weapons program, a report said. The American Enterprise Institute asserted that Washington and its allies have set the stage for what...

Aid for Palestinians: Breaking Down Walls or Building Them Higher?

http://www.brownpoliticalreview.org/2013/10/aid-for-palestinians-breaking-down-walls-or-building-them-higher/ A photo of a UNRWA school in Gaza after it was shelled by Israeli forces. Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons. The UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) agency is mandated to lead and co-ordinate international...

Israeli intelligence had warned: Cement to Gaza can be lethal

http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/en/article/18091 Yet in November, 2011, the Israel Civil Administration, which reports to the Israel Ministry of Defense, issued orders to provide massive cement supplies for the construction of seventy five UNRWA school buildings in Gaza. At...

A Book Review: Simon Sebag Montefiore’s best seller “Jerusalem: The Biography Vintage Publishers

At first glance, Simon Sebag Montefiore’s best seller Jerusalem: The Biography is surely impressive. Media critics as well as Henry Kissinger have showered it with praise, and the BBC devoted a timely three-part TV...

Letter from Ovadia Yosef, Rishon Le Zion Chief Rabbi of Israel

GAIL WINSTONIndependent Correspondent from Mevasserat Zion, IsraelWebsite: www.WinstonIsraelNews.comOctober 10, 2013 I was an eyewitness when Chief Rabbi Ovadia Yosef presented his letter (enclosed) to the Jewish people, to all sons of Israel, to help the...

Guest post: UNRWA – Not part of the solution but part of the problem

http://anneinpt.wordpress.com/2013/10/10/guest-post-unrwa-not-part-of-the-solution-but-part-of-the-problem/ This is another guest post by Brian Goldfarb, a frequent reader and contributor to this blog. “Not part of the solution, but part of the problem” - What is? Well, if we’re talking about the...

Ready for Compromise Peace But Concluded Correctly It Wasn’t Possible (Ovadia Yosef)

gloria-center.org “The evil that men do is remembered after their deaths, but the good is often buried with them.” - William Shakespeare, “Julius Caesar” ****** It is amazing how much Rabbi Ovadia Yosef (ZTL) has been slandered...