Middle East

MENL, http://www.menewsline.com Iran has been pressing to expand its presence in the Gaza Strip. Arab diplomatic sources said the Iranian leadership was urging the Hamas government of Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh to allow additional military trainers...

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=1742 The letter that Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad is expected to hand Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today is a prime example of everything wrong with the current Palestinian leadership. The letter (according to...

http://www.arlenefromisrael.info/current-postings/ Never Forget. Never Again. Words of enormous import that must be addressed with utmost seriousness. Tonight begins Yom Hashoah -- Holocaust Remembrance Day. And so I begin here with a short Aish video that features the...

http://rubinreports.blogspot.com/2012/04/hillary-clinton-implies-pro-israel.html Sometimes a secretary of state is asked tough questions. How they are answered shows the underlying philosophy of official and government. I genuinely don’t want to make too much out of a single exchange...

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4215414,00.html It doesn’t matter that Iran’s ayatollahs just hosted an international conference, attended by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, against "Hollywood and Satanism" and "Hollywoodism and Zionism." It doesn’t matter that many blockbusters have been banned in...

http://rubinreports.blogspot.com/2012/04/iraqi-model-as-good-as-it-gets.html Iraq is in a mess. Violence continues. Factionalism leads to endless bickering. Corruption is at high levels. Christians live in fear or flee altogether. Islamism is constantly creeping forward. Yet I would suggest that...

*Arlene Kushner, Research Analyst and Consultant, Center for Near East Policy Research, http://www.arlenefromisrael.info Credit: FrontpageJerusalem Sharon was the only Arabic speaker at the negotiations between Israel and Egypt. At that time, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, said...

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=265058 Photo: Yehoar Gal If a Palestinian state is established, it will be armed to the teeth. Within it there will be bases of the most extreme terrorist forces, who will be equipped with anti-tank and...

http://www.tnr.com/article/world/102413/muslim-brotherhood-egypt-arab-spring-election The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace hosted a Muslim Brotherhood delegation in Washington last week to better understand how the Islamist group will govern Egypt. It was a noble attempt at promoting intercultural political...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/07/opinion/rock-throwing-by-arabs.html?_r=4&ref=global#h To the Editor: Thomas L. Friedman (“A Middle East Twofer,” column, April 4) endorses what he calls “nonviolent resistance by Palestinians” against Israel. He adds that Palestinians need to “accompany every boycott, hunger strike or...