Middle East

Middle East Newsline, http://www.menewsline.com The Fatah militia has received extended-range rockets for attacks on Israel. Palestinian sources said the Fatah militia has acquired its first BM-21 Katyusha rockets since the 1982 war in Lebanon. They said...

http://rubinreports.blogspot.com/2012/05/is-islam-innately-evil-is-islam.html We all know that the number of Muslims who explicitly put forward a systematically coherent moderate theology of Islam is very small. We also know that radical Islamists pretend to be moderates and fool...

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/06/01/refugee-definition-promotes-conflict-palestinians/ The Washington Free Beacon’s Adam Kredo has been doing yeoman’s work covering Senator Mark Kirk’s efforts to force the State Department to define Palestinian refugees in the same manner that the international community defines...

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/05/29/exaggerating-the-refugee-problem.html The situation in the Middle East is complicated enough without inflammatory oversimplifications. Lara Friedman’s post “Legislating the Refugee Problem,” should be called “Exaggerating the Refugee Problem.” Unfortunately, supposedly pro-Palestinian discourse is rife with such...

http://www.danielpipes.org/11584/mohamed-tantawi What does it mean that Mohamed Morsi is president of Egypt? Speaking for the American consensus, Bret Stephens recently argued in the Wall Street Journal against the consolation that the Muslim Brotherhood's victory "is...

http://freebeacon.com/egypt-attaches-strings-to-peace-with-israel/ Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was silent as a senior Egyptian official stated during a joint press conference that his country would only uphold its peace treaty with Israel if the Jewish state returns...

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 Uri Resnick currently serves as the Deputy Consul General for the Israel Embassy in Los Angeles. Previously, Dr. Resnick previously served as the head of the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs Division as...

Leading members of Congress have warned Egypt of the loss of U.S. aid unless it ends support for Hamas. Senior House and Senate members have determined that Egypt was supporting Hamas' war against Israel in...

http://www.arlenefromisrael.info/current-postings/ I've alluded to some of this already, but want to return to look in some more detail at the various "fronts" we are dealing with in this conflict. I wrote yesterday about the fact that...