Middle East

http://www.biu.ac.il/SOC/besa/docs/perspectives179.pdf BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 179, September 4, 2012 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Israel will not be able to make peace with the Palestinians until the Palestinian community gives up its goal of destroying Israel. The Palestinians...

Reprinted from 2003. Published in Makor Rishon and in the Jerusalem Post (2003). A news story which shocked the world this week dealt with the crushing of American citizen Rachel Corrie by an IDF bulldozer,...

http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/egypt-hamas-devise-plan-secure-borders-says-report Egyptian officials and senior figures in the Hamas movement, which controls the Gaza Strip, have devised plans to preempt any attacks similar to the 5 August attack in Rafah which killed 16 Egyptian border...

http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/hamas-hopeful-about-future-morsy After last month's attacks in Sinai that killed 16 Egyptian security officers, questions have loomed over President Mohamed Morsy’s ability to control militancy in the peninsula, which is often held to be connected to...

http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/geography-iranian-power-robert-d-kaplan Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from Robert D. Kaplan's new book, The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate , which will be...

http://mideast.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/08/30/morsis_just_not_that_into_iran_0 Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had high hopes for the visit to Tehran by new Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi. His trip on Thursday for the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit might have been brief -- his...

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=5641 The family of Rachel Corrie, who was crushed by an army bulldozer during a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Gaza in 2003, filed a civil suit against the State of Israel for their daughter's death. This...

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/joseph-klein/un-blames-israel-for-gazas-inviable-future/ The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) held a conference on August 27th entitled “Will the Gaza Strip be Viable in 2020?” The conclusion, predictably, was that the Israeli government was fully responsible...

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3316/abbas-office-ordered-beatings A Palestinian commission of inquiry into the beating of Palestinian journalists and demonstrators in Ramallah has found that top officials in Mahmoud Abbas's office had ordered the assault. The discovery did not come as a...

Almost everyone seems to agree that the Iranian nuclear weapons project should be stopped. Preferably through economic sanctions against Iran, but if that doesn't work, then military means will have to be used. But...