Middle East

http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/ipc_e241.htm Overview 1. Regardless of the last flotilla's failure to reach the Gaza Strip, anti-Israeli organizations and activists intend to continue challenging Israel with "awareness-raising" events, including flotillas, convoys and fly-ins. In some instances, the behind-the-scenes...

Flashback to 1976. I was then escorted with a delegation of social work professionals to visit UNRWA facilities in Gaza. There, Dr. Eli Lasch,then the head of the Israel Civil Administration's Gaza health department, explained that...

All a family hopes and prays for is to raise their children, have grand-children and live happily ever after. Those hopes and dreams were shattered one Erev Shabbat (On route 60, last September) when...

http://freebeacon.com/redefining-refugee-status/ Update: A Senate amendment aimed at finding exactly how many Palestinian refugees are benefitting from U.S. tax dollar has passed a major procedural hurdle despite “enormous opposition” by the State Department, Jordanian government, and...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/26/opinion/israels-settlers-are-here-to-stay.html?_r=4 WHATEVER word you use to describe Israel’s 1967 acquisition of Judea and Samaria - commonly referred to as the West Bank in these pages - will not change the historical facts. Arabs called for...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alan-elsner/thank-heaven-and-israel_b_1719452.html As the death toll mounts in Syria and the country slides deeper into civil war, the world should be thankful that the Assad regime never succeeded in developing nuclear weapons -- which almost happened...

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=5271 Former intelligence chief Amos Yadlin says Israel is under threat of only about 1,000 "effective missiles." • When missiles start falling on Tel Aviv Israel's legitimacy will drastically increase, as will our ability to...

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=58130 Observation: Just in time for Democratic Convention - Israel makes do list for Obama clear Dr. Aaron Lerner Date: 4 September 2012 The timing could not be better. For months friends of Israel in the United States...

Faced with graphic photos of the tortured dead body of the late U.S. ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, being dragged through the streets of Benghazi by a mob, one can't help but think that,...

http://www.jinsa.org/fellowship-program/evelyn-gordon/palestinian-conflict-israel-not-core-middle-east-conflict#.UKHaubJmTpw As Syria's civil war drags on, it is increasingly destabilizing its neighbors. First, hundreds of thousands of refugees poured over their borders; now, violence has as well. Turkey and Syria have repeatedly exchanged deadly...