Middle East

RAMALLAH -- Egypt has demanded the extradition of three senior Hamas commanders from the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian daily Al Quds reported that Cairo has relayed a request for the transfer of three senior...

CAIRO -- Egypt has been searching for Al Qaida squads in the Sinai Peninsula. Egyptian security sources said large parts of the army and air force have been deployed in Operation Eagle, the counter-insurgency...

http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/forensics-report-gives-clues-identity-sinai-attackers The initial forensic report on the bodies of the Rafah checkpoint attackers suggests that the perpetrators were wearing military uniforms made in Nablus, Palestine at the time of the attack. Five bodies were 99 percent...

http://www.randomhouse.com/book/192601/a-lethal-obsession-by-robert-s-wistrich In this unprecedented work two decades in the making, leading historian Robert S. Wistrich examines the long and ugly history of anti-Semitism, from the first recorded pogrom in 38 BCE to its shocking and...

Cleared for publication: Nearly 12 years after the brutal lynching of two IDF reservists in Ramallah, security forces arrested two Palestinians who confessed to being actively involved in the act. The Ramallah lynch took place...

The U.S. intelligence community has been warning against relying on information on Iran provided by Israel. A former senior CIA official has warned that Israel could be skewing intelligence as part of its campaign for...

http://www.biu.ac.il/SOC/besa/docs/perspectives177.pdf EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Israel has good reason to fear that Syria’s chemical and biological weapons arsenal could fall into the wrong hands - to terrorist elements within Syria, to an even more hostile Syrian regime,...

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=57799 08 August 2012 The Palestinian Non-Governmental Organizations Network (PNGO) condemns, in the strongest terms, the heinous crime committed by an armed group in Sinai on Sunday, 05 August 2012, the result of which 16 Egyptian...

http://pjmedia.com/barryrubin/2012/08/03/how-the-u-s-government-should-deal-with-the-jerusalem-as-israels-capital-issue/?singlepage=true Recently there has been a controversy when State Department spokespeople refused to say what they thought to be Israel’s capital. To understand this issue we need to understand that there are two different issues...

http://jcpa.org/article/al-qaeda-affiliate-jaish-al-islam-receives-formal-sanctuary-in-hamas-ruled-gaz/ Vol. 8, No. 7 Except for Fatah, the other Palestinian terror organizations in Gaza enjoy full freedom of movement under Hamas rule. Offshoots of al-Qaeda in Gaza include Jaish al-Islam (the Army of Islam), the...