Middle East

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/questions-that-jews-could-ask-abbas-in-new-york-today/ This morning, Palestinian Authority foreign minister Riad Malki announced that PA leader Mahmoud Abbas will meet Jewish community representatives in New York. That meeting could provide an opportunity for Jews to ask probing questions of...

http://www.arlenefromisrael.info/current-postings/ "Moadim L'Simcha" (times of joy) is the traditional greeting for the intermediate days of Sukkot. And, yes, I've heard it many time these past few days. Personally, I have been finding it to be...

http://www.matthiaskuentzel.de/contents/moderate-holocaust-denial-in-iran A statement on Holocaust Denial in Iran, presented on September 20th, 2013 at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust · By Matthias Küntzel Dear Director Schoenberg, dear Jodi Shapiro, Ladies and Gentlemen, It’s not only...

http://rubinreports.blogspot.co.il/2013/09/the-iran-is-now-moderate-joke_22.html I have never understood why anyone expected any U.S. action on Iran's nuclear program. Basically there was never any chance the U.S. would undertake any armed action or allow Israel to do so. That...

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/359152/rouhani-big-apple-elliott-abrams The second-in-command of the world’s greatest state sponsor of terrorism is coming to New York. Cause for celebration? Hassan Rouhani is Iran’s new president, chosen in an undemocratic election. Rouhani has spent his life in...

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=3819&sec=2&title=Original_Thinking:_Will_Israel_be_in_close_combat_with_al-Qaida_in_2014 US servicemen are being photographed holding signs to hide their faces. This new form of Anonymous protest is addressed to their president. “I didn’t join the navy to fight for al-Qaida in a Syrian civil...

winnipegjewishreview.com A new film directed by David Bedein, a special correspondent for the Wininpeg Jewish Review shows that Palestinian children in summer camps run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) are being...

(By popular demand) TRANSCRIPT: CAMP JIHAD: INSIDE UNRWA SUMMER CAMP SEASON, 2013 http://israelbehindthenews.com/bin/content.cgi?ID=5666&q=1 Narrator: The United Nations Relief and Works Agency, also known as UNRWA, serves 5 million descendants of Arab refugees from the 1948 Arab-Israel...

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3979/unrwa-dilemma The Palestinian people, according to a recent study by the Jerusalem Institute of Justice, have received per capita, adjusted for inflation, 25 times more aid than did Europeans to rebuild war-torn Western Europe under...

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=11935 The Palestinian Authority has yet to form the political infrastructure that would allow it to reach a permanent peace agreement with Israel, Brig. Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser, director-general of the Strategic Affairs Ministry, said...