Middle East

http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/162485/jerusalem-united-by-trash A few weeks ago, I showed up at the municipal sanitation depot in south Jerusalem, next to a small supermarket. After the workers shared coffee and cigarettes in the dark parking lot, the trucks...

http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.574759 As prime minister, Ehud Olmert met 36 times with PA President Mahmoud Abbas and couldn't reach an agreement with him. Olmert was prepared to go further than any other Israeli leader in meeting the...

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=15667 On the morning of March 14, 2006, an agreement hatched by the United States and a number of European countries and which sprang from Israeli jails the killers of former minister Rehavam Ze'evi and...

Following our center’s March 13 presentation at the British Parliament concerning UNRWA education, Sir Peter Luff, MP for Mid Worcestershire, asked for evidence that would support our center's finding that UNRWA is preparing its...

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/senator-menendez-to-ajc-palestinian-unity-has-consequences-262378181.html SUMMIT, N.J., June 9, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- "Palestinians must choose between peace with Israel as a Jewish state and a marriage with Hamas, a terrorist organization," Senator Robert Menendez declared at the AJC New...

Hamas' military wing sparked the war between Israel and the Gaza Strip, a report said. A leading U.S. think tank asserted that the Izzedin Kassam Brigades took the decision to escalate rocket and other attacks...

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/when-children-are-the-target/ In the wake of Operation Protective Edge, Israel is enduring an unprecedented deluge of condemnation. This is trying for the entire nation but is especially infuriating for families like mine. The crux of the vitriol...

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/184410#.U_vV8_mwJcS An informative new video posted to YouTube on Monday by the IDF shows how the damage in Gaza reported by the UN is only giving half of thepicture, and skewing the facts on the ground. In the...

WE DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE OF NON-STATE, NON-NATIONAL LOYALTIES People tend to think of the Middle East as being composed of ‘states’ just like Britain, France, Belgium and the Netherlands. This is a big...

The question is no doubt too late and futile to ask. A quick, but realistic answer, is probably "the Turks themselves," or, related to this, "it was destined to get lost." After all,...