Middle East

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://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/06/02/george-jonas-relief-agencies-now-and-then/ A reader wants to know what bothers me about UN relief agencies, such as UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees. “After all,” he writes, “in your memoir you mention...

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.algemeiner.com/2012/05/30/u-s-state-department-affirms-support-for-5-million-palestinian-refugees/ In the wake of a Senate amendment requiring the United States to quantify how many Palestinians receiving U.S. aid were displaced after the Israeli War of Independence and how many are only descendants...

The May 28th 2012decision of the Australian government to increase its allocation to the United Nations Relief and Works agency, UNRWA, the agency that serves Palestinian Refugees and their descendants - by 450% -...

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/301117/counting-palestine-refugees-daniel-pipes # The fetid, dark heart of the Arab war on Israel, I have long argued, lies not in disputes over Jerusalem, checkpoints, or “settlements.” Rather, it concerns the so-called Palestine refugees. So called because of...

http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/12392 The Islamophobia Research & Documentation Project (IRDP)-a program of the University of California, Berkeley's Center for Race and Gender (CRG)-recently held its third annual conference, "Critical Discourses on Islamophobia: Symbols, Images, & Representations." As...

JERUSALEM - In response to Amnesty International's 2012 World Report, NGO Monitor today released the following statement: · As in many previous reports, Amnesty continues to level unsupported allegations of violations of international law against...

http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/en/article/20333 Overview 1. In the middle of April 2012 secret elections were held for Hamas' leading institutions in the Gaza Strip, with the following results: 1) The General Shura Council, the highest Hamas authority in the Gaza...

http://www.gloria-center.org/2012/05/news-flash-muslim-brotherhood-claims-victory-in-egypt-presidential-election/ According to the Brotherhood, the almost complete vote counting for president looks like this: Mohamed Mursi (Brotherhood) 28.4% Ahmed Shafiq (Mubarak era general) 24.6% Abdul Moeim Abul Fotouh (so-called “moderate Islamist” but supported by radical Islamist Salafists)...