Middle East

US sponsorship of the Shah, 1953-1979 & US tacit support of the Saddam Hussein's war on Iran, 1980-1988, are ingrained in all levels of Iranian education. http://www.ajc.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=ijITI2PHKoG&b=849241&ct=2903231 http://www.theislam101.com/item.php?articleid=263&topicId=17 http://www.amazon.com/War-Curriculum-Iranian-Schoolbooks/dp/0874951410 http://www.impact-se.org/research/iran/index.html

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=1752&sec=1&title=DR._CATHERINE _CHATTERLEY:_USING_THE_HOLOCAUST_AGAINST_ISRAEL:_DENIAL,_INVERSION_ AND_THE_THREAT_OF_REPETITION In general, discussions of the Holocaust in the Arab and Islamic worlds are convoluted, distorted, and contradictory. Commentators are not usually concerned with historical accuracy or historiographical interpretation, nor are they interested in the...

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=1700&sec=1&title=_ INTERVIEW_WITH_HILLEL_NEUER_OF_UN_WATCH_ON_THE_PA_UN_BID, _UNWRA_REFORM,_RICHARD_FALK,_SYRIA_AND_MORE _ Editor's Note: Hillel Neuer, Executive Director of UN WATCH will be the guest speaker at the 2011 Annual Jewish Foundation of Manitobacs Luncheon on Wednesday Nov. 23, 2011 at the Faimont Hotel ....

http://pjmedia.com/barryrubin/2011/11/18/why-don%e2%80%99t-western- elites-get-the-middle-east-because-they-think-it%e2%80%99s-just-like-them-sort-of/ I’ve come to realize a hitherto hidden dimension of why it is so hard for Western establishment figures (policymakers, journalists, and academics) to understand the Middle East. It is the conflict between the thirst...

Salman Fayad has announced that he may resign as the head of the Palestinian Authority, where he earned an undeserved reputation with the media as someone who led the Palestinian Arab people in a...

http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/ipc_e241.htm Overview 1. Regardless of the last flotilla's failure to reach the Gaza Strip, anti-Israeli organizations and activists intend to continue challenging Israel with "awareness-raising" events, including flotillas, convoys and fly-ins. In some instances, the behind-the-scenes...

http://www.hudson-ny.org/2586/palestinian-victimhood-narrative Shelby Steele, Robert J and Marion E. Oster Senior Fellow, Hoover Institute, member of the Working Group on Islamism and the International Order. The following is excerpted from a speech delivered September 22, 2011 in...

http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=1&DBID=1&LNGID=1 &TMID=111&FID=442&PID=0&IID=9990&TTL=Iran_Signals_Its_Readiness_ for_a_Final_Confrontation Since the publication of the November 2011 IAEA report, which explicitly spotlights Iran's plans to build nuclear weapons, senior figures of the Iranian regime and the state-run media have begun to use threatening, defiant,...

http://www.hudson-ny.org/2570/third-intifada The third intifada is already here, and it is being waged against Israel not on the streets of Gaza and Ramallah, but in the international arena. This is a Diplomatic Intifada, aimed at rallying the...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2059519/Benjamin-Netanyahu -Barack-Obama-Nicolas-Sarkozy-blaming-victim.html?ito=feeds-newsxml # One of the most egregious signs of western irrationality and bigotry over the issue of Israel is the way in which its Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is routinely scapegoated for causing the breakdown...