Middle East

Hamas has expanded operations of its military academy as part of an effort to produce a trained cadre of officers. The Abdullah Azzam Academy, located in the central Gaza Strip, has received additional funding and recruits in...

A top aide to President Barack Obama provided a keynote address at last weekend's 46thIslamic Society of North America (ISNA) national convention, a gathering that attracted thousands of people and also featured anti-Semitic, homophobic...

Gershon Baskin, CEO of the Israel-Palestine Centre For Research and Information (IPCRI) - a joint Israeli-Palestinian think-tank in Jerusalem - believes the only way to achieve Mideast peace is by having the international community...

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=116982 Posted: November 24, 2009 1:00 am Eastern By Nonie Darwish © 2009 On Nov. 17 and 18, I was to speak at Columbia and Princeton Universities on "Shariah Law and Perspectives on Israel" - but hours before I...

Jonathan Rosenblum Jonathan Rosenblum is the director of Jewish Media Resources, a leading media organization dedicated to furthering an understanding of Torah Judaism. Jewish Media Resources works with foreign journalists stationed in Israel and with...

No matter how events play out, this story ends with U.S.-trained soldiers pointing their guns at Israel. ‘The stupidest program the U.S. government has ever undertaken” - last year that’s what I called American efforts...

It has been reported that U.S. President Barack Obama recently pressed Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu to continue the American program for helping the Palestinian Authority upgrade its security forces That program in question began...

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=298&sec=1&title=EAST_JERUSALEM_ARABS__TELL_ME_THEY_PREFER_ISRAEL_OVER_THE_PA Carob juice vendor outside Damascus Gate, Old City, East Jerusalem. (Note: the person in this photo was not interviewed.) Photo by Rhonda Spivak. Shopkeeper in East Jerusalem's Arab Market sells a PALESTINE socccer team shirt, even...

The United Nations' relief agency for Palestinian refugees, lashed out Tuesday at the Israel Broadcasting Authority for airing what it called a a dishonest portrayal of the organization on Saturday in "Ro'im Olam" on...

For nearly two decades, the Palestinian Authority conducted peace talks with Israel while construction in the Jewish settlements was continuing. Every now and then the Palestinian leadership would complain about the construction, but it never made a...