Middle East

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=3171&sec=1&title=RAMALLAH_AND_BERLIN:__REFLECTIONS_ON_GERMANY%27S_VOTE_AT_THE_UN__RE:_THE_PA_STATEHOOD_BID There are a lot of reasons I can think of why Germany ought to have voted "no" in response to the Palestinian unilateral bid for statehood at the UN, one which Mahmoud Abbas declared...

http://nationalinterest.org/article/lessons-the-syrian-reactor-8380?page=show THE OFFICE of the assistant to the president for national-security affairs in the West Wing of the White House is a spacious, well-lit corner room in a building where space is at a premium....

http://www.menewsline.com Israel has determined that the Hamas regime was establishing an infrastructure for missile and rocket production in the West Bank. The Israel Security Agency determined that Hamas ordered cells in the West Bank to manufacture...

http://www.defensenews.com/article/20130624/DEFREG04/306240021/Interview-Joseph-Weiss?odyssey=nav|head Joseph “Yossi” Weiss swept into the top job at Israel’s largest aerospace and defense company a year ago July 1 on the tailwind of his successful fight to reclaim a critical communications satellite (ComSat)...

http://www.timesofisrael.com/officially-silent-israel-privately-upbeat-over-morsis-ouster/ While Israeli leaders have refrained from commenting on the ousting of Egypt’s president Mohammed Morsi by the army, political and military sources privately indicated Thursday that they considered the turn of events potentially beneficial...

independent.co.uk Forget the massacre of thousands in Syria and Egypt, whether by chemical weapons or more conventional methods of mass slaughter. The Middle Eastern issue galvanising some of our musical mega-stars and their followers, even...

http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=6047 From the reactions of senior Israeli government officials, one might think that Iran left Geneva with approval from the P5+1 to develop nuclear weapons, and that the agreement reached will allow Iran to become...

The following is an edited (expanded and updated) open letter, which Seva Brodsky originally wrote to Nancy Kaufman (former Executive Director of Boston's JCRC, present head of the National Council of Jewish Women ),...

http://washingtonjewishweek.com/origin-of-the-palestinian-claim-of-a-right-of-return/ Reports emanating from the current Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations reveal that the Palestinian side continues to demand recognition of “a right of return,” under which about 5 million Palestinians now living outside Israel would migrate...

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4512703,00.html When one examines the articles of the reconciliation agreement between Hamas and Fatah, one can quickly understand that this is an old soup that has been reheated. The agreement the two sides signed was...