Middle East

Violence and deaths that occurred on ships en route to Gaza on May 31 represent the result of a systematic campaign of misinformation which conveyed the specious notion that the people of Gaza were...

In a Jerusalem press conference held on Tuesday, former Canadian justice minister Irwin Cotler called for more “threat specific” sanctions to be placed against Iran. According to Prof. Cotler, Iran remains in violation of four...

The number of rockets and mortars launched at Israel from the Gaza Strip has dramatically reduced after Operation Cast Lead from December 2008-January 2009, during which the IDF acted to prevent Hamas and other...

What about building Global Centre for Peace instead? The Winnipeg Jewish Review was invited to a press conference held by Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff recently in the latter part of August while he was in...

Paul Larudee, senior activist of the pro-Hamas movements Free Palestine (FPM) Free Gaza (FGM) and International Solidarity (ISM), told the Iranian PressTV that plans were being made to send a plane to the Gaza...

Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA: An IMRA reader raised the following question regarding Dr. Mordechai Kedar's recent article (repeated below): Do you see the members of small homogenous states that have the misfortune that they are...

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4068983,00.html Events that involve enraged masses have a dynamic of their own, especially in the Middle East. They are akin to molten lava, shot out from the belly of a volcano with unexpected force...

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=1435&sec=2&title=MISSING_CONTEXT_ FOR__TERROR_ATTACKS_IN_EILAT:EGYPT_DEMANDED_ISRAEL_CEDE_EILAT_IN_2006 Much of the media missed the context of the attacks conducted Thursday morning, north of the Israeli port city of Eilat. These attacks may portend the genesis of the next stage of the Arab-Israeli war,...

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=53555 PA Condemns Attacks Against Civilians Date: 29/8/2011 Time: 13:42 http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=17171 ----- RAMALLAH, August 29, 2011 (WAFA - PLO news agency) - The Palestinian Authority Monday condemned attacks against all civilians, including the incident in Tel Aviv on Monday...

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm? id=1533&sec=3&title=Consequences_Of_A_Palestinian_Arab_State At a time when a Palestinian Arab sovereign state is so widely discussed, very few have taken the time to consider the consequences of establishing such an entity. 1. Encirclement: Will a proposed sovereign Palestine...