Middle East

http://www.menewsline.com -- Turkey's parliament has authorized the military to enter Syria to attack targets of the regime of President Bashar Assad. On Oct. 4, parliament, dominated by the ruling Justice and Development Party, passed a resolution...

http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/rabbi-cherlow-why-arent-human-rights-advocates-protesting-outlawing-jewish-prayers-on-temple-mount/2012/10/05/ On Friday morning, Rabbi Yuval Cherlow, Dean of the Petach Tikva Hesder Yeshiva, said on the Kol Israel morning program “Meeting Point” that any argument against Jewish prayer on Temple Mount is unacceptable and...

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=58490 Did Egyptian President Anwar Sadat do Israel a favor when in May 1973 he rejected an initiative by Henry Kissinger that could have restored Egyptian sovereignty to all of Sinai and instead opted to...

http://freebeacon.com/state-stands-by-its-man/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter The State Department defended its selection of a controversial anti-Israel activist to participate in a human rights forum in Poland, praising the longtime Israel critic as “valued and highly credible.” Salam al-Marayati, founder of the...

http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/10/rethinking_palestine_2012.html In 2011, Mahmoud Abbas, head of the Palestinian Authority (PA), failed to win U.N. acceptance of Palestine as an independent state1. This year, he lowered the bar to upgraded status within the U.N. In...

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/cinnamon-stillwell/profs-on-mideast-turmoil-blame-america-israel-and-free-speech/ In the wake of the al-Qaeda attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya on Sept. 11, 2012, the seizure of the American embassy in Cairo, Egypt, and the ensuing anti-American protests and riots...

The Israeli Army has been training for a war with the Iranian-sponsored Hizbullah. Israeli Military sources said the army has intensified training for a war with Hizbullah over the next few months. They said exercises...

Dr. Benedetta Berti is a research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies, a lecturer at Tel Aviv University, a Young Atlanticist at the Atlantic Council, and the coauthor of Hamas and Hezbollah:...

http://www.investigativeproject.org/3750/steve-emerson-interview-on-shameful-us-response Host: "Now this latest wave of violence in the Middle East has brought intense focus on American foreign policy. In fact that very topic seems to have superseded the economy as the biggest issue...

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/isi-leibler/wistrich-on-‘the-left-the-jews-and-israel/ Robert Wistrich, Hebrew University professor of European and Jewish History and director of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of anti-Semitism, has just published his 29th book titled From Ambivalence to Betrayal:...