Middle East

http://missingpeace.eu/en/2012/02/eu-reaction-to-palestinian-unity-agreement-contradicts-own-policy/ Last Monday the Palestinian Authority and Hamas signed a new reconciliation agreement in Doha, the capital of Qatar. The Israeli government immediately condemned the move. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told PA president Mahmoud Abbas...

by-line: http://www.menewsline.com/ Saudi Arabia was said to be planning to acquire nuclear weapons within weeks of Iran's development of an atomic bomb. A British daily has asserted that Riyad was preparing for a nuclear crisis...

http://missingpeace.eu/en/2012/02/eu-statement-about-islamic-jihad-leader-proves-bias-against-israel/ Video of Khader Adnan promoting suicide attacks against Israel. On Saturday EU commissioner Catherine Ashton issued a statement in which she addressed the hunger strike by Khader Adnan, a senior commander of Islamic Jihad in...

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/israels-vibrant-democracy/ By any objective standard, Israeli democracy is as robust and pluralistic as any in the world. There are no restrictions on any form of protest or advocacy, including very fierce and unpopular criticism of...

http://www.stonegateinstitute.org/2851/freedom-of-expression- un-human-rights-council Part 1: Overview and Background: 1) By any objective standard, Israeli democracy is as robust and pluralistic as any in the world. There are no restrictions on any form of protest or advocacy, including very...

http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=2&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID= 111&FID=443&PID=0&IID=11619&TTL=Will_Palestinian_Reconciliation_Lead_to _a_Hamas_Takeover_of_the_PLO ? PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal reached an agreement in Cairo on 22 December on national reconciliation and a strategic partnership. A new temporary leadership was formed for the PLO,...

Flashback to 1976. I was then escorted with a delegation of social work professionals to visit UNRWA facilities in Gaza. There, Dr. Eli Lasch,then the head of the Israel Civil Administration's Gaza health department, explained that...

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=2080&sec=2&title= Gerald_Steinberg_of__NGO_Monitor:_Letter_to_New_Israel_Fund_Board_on_ Adalah_participation_in_Apartheid_Week/BDS _ Letter to Daniel Sokatch, Rachel Liel, and board members New Israel Fund February 8, 2012 Dear Daniel, Rachel and other members of the NIF Board, As the NIF board meets in Israel, I am writing to you...

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=2078&sec=2 &title=The_Gaza_Narrative:_From_Delegitimization_to_Antisemitism Tucked away in a small building off the main street of Sderot, Israel, and just a few blocks from the Sderot Police Station and their infamous Rocket Museum, lies the home of the Sderot...

http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/ArticleLayout/CdaArticle PrintPreview/1,2506,L-4189646,00.html The annual Israeli Apartheid Week, dubbed “anti-Semitic hatefest” by Canadian author Howard Rotberg, is approaching again. As every year the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS ) campaign will play a key part in this...