Middle East

http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArticle.aspx?id=276842 Critics of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the organization tasked with oversight of Palestine refugees, have tended to focus on its sins. Its camps are havens for terrorists. Its bureaucracy is bloated...

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://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/137770/eric-trager/the-muslim-brotherhoods-long-game Mursi delivers a speech during a ceremony in which the military handed over power to him. (Courtesy Reuters) n the 18 months since the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, the Muslim Brotherhood has risen swiftly from...

http://freebeacon.com/lifestyles-of-the-rich-and-palestinian/ Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has allegedly deposited nearly $13 million in U.S. taxpayer aid into a secret bank account, and routinely uses his political connections to profit from the stagnant peace process, according...

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=4945 Retired Supreme Court Justice Edmond Levy, who heads a committee tasked with examining the legality of Jewish construction in Judea and Samaria, declared on Tuesday that Israelis have a legal right to settle the...

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=57367 According to the committee, communities that were built on land owned by the state, or privately owned Israeli land, with the help of government bodies could not be classified as "unauthorized" due to the...

http://www.ngo-monitor.org/article/bds_in_the_pews_european_us_and_ canadian_government_funding_behind_anti_israel_activism_in_mainline_churches Since the 2001 NGO Forum at the UN’s Durban Conference, boycotts, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) aimed at Israel have developed as a key issue in mainline Christian denominations in the United States, Europe, Canada,...

http://www.thecommentator.com/article/1376/leaked_foreign_office_documents_reveal_ attitudes_towards_netanyahu_and_palestinian_incitement Documents seen exclusively by The Commentator have revealed disturbing attitudes towards Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the British Government’s analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. While British Prime Minister David Cameron publicly calls the...

http://www.inss.org.il/publications.php?cat=21&incat=&read=6845 Following the recent downing of a Turkish reconnaissance jet by Syrian anti-aircraft, the international community, this time through NATO, is once again debating what course of action should be taken with respect to Syria....

CD Mr. Shamir, please tell a little about yourself and the your association with the Lubavitcher Rebbe. Where were you born and what year did you come to Israel? YS I came here in 1935...