Middle East

http://www.todayszaman.com/news-300950-abbas-reveals-turkey-palestine-to-coordinate-legal-steps-against-israel.html Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday said his country is coordinating with Turkey to develop a legal strategy for the newly recognized UN-observer state of Palestine to challenge Israel's increased settlement activity in the...

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=3178 &sec=1&title=LOOKING_BACK_25_YEARS_AGO_AT_HEBREW_ U_:_WHEN_I_SPENT_CHRISTMAS_IN_BETHLEHEM The other day when I was sorting through things in my basement I came across the brown wool floor rug that I purchased in the Arab market in the Old City for my dorm...

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=3180&sec=2 &title=In_Memory_of_Daniel_Inouye:_The_US_Senator_who_Registered _to_Sell_Israel_Bonds_without_Commission_in_1948 As a journalist in Israel for the past 26 years, I have met hundreds of polticians from around the world who visit Israel and laud the Jewish state with superlatives of support. There is only...

http://frontpagemag.com/2013/davidhornik/the-palestinian-authority-a-continuing-breeding-ground-for-terror/ Except for rockets from Gaza-which, meanwhile, have stopped since Israel’s Operation Pillar of Defense in November-you haven’t been hearing much about Palestinian terrorism. But it’s not for lack of trying. Israel’s Shin Bet (domestic security...

http://jcpa.org/article/irans-plans-to-take-over-syria/ In mid-April, Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah paid a secret visit to Tehran where he met with the top Iranian officials headed by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and Gen. Qasem Suleimani, the commander of the...

http://freebeacon.com/ez-bake-terrorism/ A new magazine called Al Qaeda Airlines hit the Internet last month and includes how-to guides for those interested in conducting terrorist attacks, according to a Wednesday presentation on Capitol Hill by the Simon...

Contents Leading from Behind: The “Obama Doctrine” and US Policy in the Middle East Sanford Lakoff Eleven Years to the Arab Peace Initiative: Time for an Israeli Regional Strategy Ilai Alon and Gilead Sher The Emergence of the Sunni...

http://www.gloria-center.org/2013/06/obama-middle-east-policy-wrong-team-wrong-ideas/ In the Middle East, to paraphrase President Barack Obama’s mentor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, the dodo birds are coming home to roost. At this moment, the administration’s policy team consists of CIA director John Brennan,...

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2013/06/28/arab-spring-prompts-arab-israeli-christians-to-reevaluate-israel/ Today’s Israel Hayom has an important article about an Israeli Greek Orthodox priest that every Christian in the West should read. Father Gabriel Nadaf and his family are suffering harassment and even death threats...

http://www.arlenefromisrael.info/current-postings/ Right now we are encountering ironies in a variety of situations, both predictable and unexpected. Among the predictable we have the behavior of the Palestinian Authority/PLO. Once negotiations, which were supposed to be conducted under...