Middle East

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=1096 The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) published its December 2011 report on Monday, contending that in 2016 Jews will become a minority between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. According to the...

http://www.inss.org.il/publications.php?cat=21&incat=&read=5873 As expected, the government of Israel’s decision to issue a tender for construction of 1,000 housing units in the West Bank and East Jerusalem elicited a response from Catherine Ashton, the EU’s High Representative...

http://blogs.cfr.org/abrams/2011/12/28/what-would-a-hamas-fatah-agreement-mean/ There are repeated efforts to forge a unity agreement of some sort between Hamas and Fatah, leading to a new “unity government” for the Palestinian Authority. Such a coalition was briefly in force in...

http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/12/28/obama_administration _secretly_preparing_options_for_aiding_the_syrian_opposition As the violence in Syria spirals out of control, top officials in President Barack Obama's administration are quietly preparing options for how to assist the Syrian opposition, including gaming out the unlikely option of...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/8980784 /Arab-Spring-the-revolution-has-only-just-begun.html This year, the certitudes of the old Middle East dissolved with unseemly haste. A regional order frozen in place since the death of Egypt’s Colonel Nasser 40 years ago finally thawed. It produced a...

http://www.ngo-monitor.org/article/human_wrongs_the_worst_of _amnesty_hrw_and_others_in _ JERUSALEM - With 2011 concluding, NGO Monitor today released a list of the most outrageous and absurd NGO actions from the past year, demonstrating the political nature of NGOs involved in the Arab-Israeli...

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4167403,00.html It is a rainy day in the small, working-class city of Sderot, Israel, located less than two kilometers away from the Gaza Strip. The yellow-painted bomb shelters along with the brightly colored public shelters...

*Noam Bedein is Director of Sderot Media Center, www.SderotMedia.org.il On December 7th, 2011, UNRWA issued an extensive report which lauded the vast amount of cement smuggled through the Gaza tunnels, attributing recent economic growth and...

The United States has formally concluded that Iran shared responsibility in the Al Qaida suicide air strikes in which more than 3,000 people were killed in 2001. A U.S. federal district court has determined that...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/12/14/ bloomberg_articlesLW76DW0D9L35.DTL#ixzz1jZFHeEd4 Dec. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Hamas marked 24 years since its founding as an Islamic movement dedicated to fighting for Palestinian independence, while the group's armed wing said it killed 1,365 Israelis in that period. More...