Middle East

Statement by MP Fiamma Nirenstein, vice-president of the Foreign Affairs Committee on the Italian Chamber of Deputies, Chairperson of the International Council of Jewish Parliamentarians (ICJP) "We witnessed today a complete political overthrow of Italy's...

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/fatal-flaws-in-the-reliance-upon-international-guarantees?f=must_reads When an earlier Secretary of State before Hillary Clinton, namely Condoleezza Rice, arrived several times in Jerusalem she pressured the then weak and embattled Israeli government of Ehud Olmert into continuing the dreary and...

http://www.thejc.com/comment-and-debate/comment/91931/media-should-use-ceasefire-reflect-double-standards The mobilisation of Israeli forces around Gaza this week was strikingly reminiscent of the British and American build-up of troops along the Kuwait and Iraq borders before Operation Desert Storm, the massive armoured counter-attack...

http://www.jcpa.org/art/becker2.htm Representatives of the PLO, and of the Palestinian Interim Self-Government Authority established pursuant to the Interim Agreement, have repeatedly threatened to unilaterally declare an independent Palestinian state.1 Indeed, following the conclusion of the Camp...

http://www.ngo-monitor.org/article.php?id=3784 Introduction On October 30, 2012, twenty-two NGOs released a report, “Trading Away Peace: How Europe Helps Sustain Illegal Israeli Settlements.” These NGOs repeat the BDS (boycotts, divestment, sanctions) agenda, calling on the EU and national...

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/334073/gaza-s-not-key-philadelphi-daniel-pipes # The Second Hamas-Israel War, of November 10 to 21, inspired a mighty debate over rights and wrongs, with each side appealing to the large undecided bloc (19 percent of Americans according to CNN/ORC,...

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/11/20/my-week-in-jerusalem-when-rockets-fell-on-holy-city/ Jerusalemites have an age-old custom of ushering in the holy Sabbath a full 36 minutes before sunset -- earlier than anywhere else in the world. So last Friday eve, I rushed through the Old...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arsen-ostrovsky/israel-did-everything-it-_b_2175491.html Col. Richard Kemp CBE, is a former Commander of British Forces in Afghanistan and one of the most highly decorated and respected officers in the British Army. He has spent 30 years of his...

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=3083&sec=2&title=I_AGREE_WITH_WEINBERG:_BUBBLES_HAVE_BEEN_BURST David. Weinberg, who moved to Israel from Toronto and directs the Israel office of the Center for Israel and Jewish Affairs has written a good article in Yisrael Hayom, the daily paper sponsored by...

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=3089&sec=2&title=DISPATCH_FROM_WJR_WARTIME_CORRESPONDENT_ORLI_AVIOR:_HOW_I_JUST_MISSED_THE_BIGGEST_STORY_IN_EILAT-TWO_EXPLOSIONS_SUNDAY_NIGHT Usually, when war breaks out in Israel, I am right in the thick of things--missiles fly by my kitchen windows, my life is made chaotic and I can't hear myself think it's so noisy...