Middle East

http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2011/09/ the-attack-on-israel-embassy-in-cairo Western diplomats and journalists fell for Stalin's show trials but eventually learned not to accept developments in the Soviet Union at face value. In the Soviet Union's later years, a crowd assaulting a foreign...

Ever since Syria’s loss of the Golan Heights to Israel in the June 1967 Six Day War, the strategic plateau has been a matter of contention between the two states. Immediately after the war,...

The United States has decided to change its focus in helping Palestinian Authority security forces. The administration of President Barack Obama intends to move away from equipping PA security forces. Instead, the State Department, amid...

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm? id=1533&sec=3&title=Consequences_Of_A_Palestinian_Arab_State At a time when a Palestinian Arab sovereign state is so widely discussed, very few have taken the time to consider the consequences of establishing such an entity. 1. Encirclement: Will a proposed sovereign Palestine...

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm? id=1487&sec=3&title=Teaching _ Introduction The essence of the Middle East conflict is the century-long struggle between Jews and Palestinian Arabs over one piece of land stretching between the Mediterranean and the River Jordan, which both parties regard...

A Middle East peace process ensued 34 years ago, when Egyptian President Anwar Sadat made an unprecedented middle east peace effort, when he proclaimed a new policy of peace and reconciliation with Israel. Sadat...

http://fiammanirenstein.com/articoli.asp?Categoria=5&Id=2704 After the round of applause to Abu Mazen who asked the U.N. Security Council for the recognition of the Palestinian State, the Quartet tries to postpone the decision hoping for the procedures and asking...

http://www.thenational.ae/news/worldwide/middle-east/un-statehood- initiative-raises-hopes-and-fears-in-palestinian-refugee-camps BEIRUT // Alia Hussein has lived all of her 59 years in Bourj Al Barajneh refugee camp in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital. Her nine children were also raised in the crowded camp,...

http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/24422/ The_Untold_Story_of_Josh_Fattal/ American hiker Josh Fattal (center) is greeted on Sept. 21, 2011 in Muscat, Oman, after Tehran released him and Shane Bauer on bail, months after handing them hefty jail terms. Getty Images By now, the whole world...

http://www.sacbee.com/2011/09/22/3930876/ commentary-eternal-palestinian.html As Palestinians seek recognition as a state from the UN this week, many wonder what impact such a move might have on the 4.6 million Palestinians who are refugees from the 1948 Israel War...