Middle East

http://www.menewsline.com/ Israel has begun preparing for the prospect of a victory by Syrian President Bashar Assad over Sunni rebels. The government of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has been briefed of the likelihood of an Assad victory...

http://www.meforum.org/3528/russia-middle-east-role Russia has thrown a monkey wrench into Western plans for Syria by promising to deliver its top-of-the-line S300 surface-to-air missile system to the Bashar al-Assad government. Exactly when the missiles might arrive remains unclear;...

http://www.jewishpress.com/blogs/this-ongoing-war/ how-to-say-disgusting-abuse-of-public-trust-in-french/2013/06/09/ When you next hear European politicians, and particularly the French, declaring their total and absolute opposition to terrorism, bear in mind this little story emanating from Paris. An exhibition entitled “Death” (on the web here...

http://www.gloria-center.org/2013/06/the-u-s-governments-disastrous-muslim-outreach-efforts-and-the-impact-on-u-s-middle-east-policy-blind-to-terror1/ Why has the U.S. government called certain Islamic groups supporters of terror in federal court, and then turned around and called these same organizations “moderates” and embraced them as outreach partners? In a number...

http://www.gloria-center.org/2013/06/obama-middle-east-policy-wrong-team-wrong-ideas/ In the Middle East, to paraphrase President Barack Obama’s mentor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, the dodo birds are coming home to roost. At this moment, the administration’s policy team consists of CIA director John Brennan,...

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4389460,00.html At the end of August 1967, shortly after the Six Day War, the heads of Arab states held a special conference in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, where the three famous "Nos" were decided on:...

Israel's military has been ordering equipment to defend against massive missile and rocket strikes. All of Israel's military services plan to receive equipment to defend bases and other facilities. They said much of the...

http://www.martinkramer.org/sandbox/2013/06/samantha-power-defender-of-israel/ Samantha Power is now President Obama’s nominee for United States ambassador to the United Nations. In 2002, in the wake of the “Jenin massacre” libel, she famously called for a “mammoth protection force” for...

Israel’s Experience with International Peacekeepers During the 1967 Six-Day War, I was a soldier serving in Battalion 202 of the Paratroopers Brigade of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). We entered the Gaza Strip from south...

Contents Leading from Behind: The “Obama Doctrine” and US Policy in the Middle East Sanford Lakoff Eleven Years to the Arab Peace Initiative: Time for an Israeli Regional Strategy Ilai Alon and Gilead Sher The Emergence of the Sunni...