Middle East

Saudi Arabia, the only Arab nation contiguous to Israel which remains in a total state of war with Israel since 1948, has taken a step towards posing a nuclear threat against Jerusalem. This past...

____________________________ September 6, 2010 "Taking No Chances" The ambivalence about where Netanyahu is headed is quite pervasive. His signals are not clear. As someone knowledgeable I spoke to said, "He's dancing between the raindrops." That is, there...

http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/12/28/obama_administration _secretly_preparing_options_for_aiding_the_syrian_opposition As the violence in Syria spirals out of control, top officials in President Barack Obama's administration are quietly preparing options for how to assist the Syrian opposition, including gaming out the unlikely option of...

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=2005&sec=2&title=MATAS_ BANNED_FROM_RUSSIA_FOR_REPORT_CRITICIZING_CHINA:_ MATAS_ALSO_PRESSING_RUSSIA_TO_OPEN_UP_ARCHIVES_RELATING _TO_RAUL_WALLENBERG Winnipeg's David Matas is persona non grata in Russia, where he says he last visited about 1998 "when I was involved in a human rights conference.". The international human rights lawyer who is also senior...

http://www.ngo-monitor.org/article/bds_in_the_pews_european_us_and_ canadian_government_funding_behind_anti_israel_activism_in_mainline_churches Since the 2001 NGO Forum at the UN’s Durban Conference, boycotts, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) aimed at Israel have developed as a key issue in mainline Christian denominations in the United States, Europe, Canada,...

http://www.israeldefense.com/?CategoryID=484&ArticleID=1562&print=1 Al Manara Square in Ramallah Minister of Strategic Affairs Moshe Ya'alon and ministry CEO Major General (Res.) Yossi Kooperwasser presented the government with the "incitement index" on Sunday. The index aims to gauge hostility towards Israel...

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=2938&sec=2&title=A_Point_to_Make_at_IAW:_Number_of__Golan_Heights_Druze_seeking_Israeli_citizenship_is_on_the_Rise Something interesting has been happening in the Golan Heights in the last few months which pro-Israel advocates on campus ought to point ought when detracters launch Israel Apartheid Week on campuses throughout North America,...

From "The Glenn Beck Program" (Thursday, November 15, 2012 edition)

In the first such confrontation in more than a decade, Palestinian Authority forces have attacked the Israel Army. Scores of PA officers confronted Israeli Army soldiers in of Hebron. Israeli soldiers fired stun grenades and...

http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/130225/sec_id/130225 The control of Syria’s unconventional chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction are of vital concern in a troubled Middle East should the Assad regime fall to Sunni supremacist opposition forces. An Algemeiner article...