Middle East

http://www.awrad.org/etemplate.php?id=249&x=4 I. INTRODUCTION On 4 May 2011, Fatah and Hamas announced a surprise Reconciliation Agreement in Cairo. The Agreement included articles on elections, security, the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC). It...

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http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/israeli-sources- arab-spring-let-palestinians-ramp-up-gaza-arms-smuggling-1.375067 The revolutions in the Arab world, especially the Egyptian security forces' diminished control in the Sinai, have allowed the Palestinians to exponentially increase their weapons smuggling into the Gaza Strip, senior defense officials say. In...

http://www.petra.gov.jo/Public_News/Nws_NewsDetails.aspx? Site_Id=1&lang=2&NewsID=37756&CatID=13&Type=Home>ype=1 Cairo, July 14 (Petra)--Conference of Supervisors of Palestinian Affairs in Arab Host Countries stressed its strong rejection of unilateral Israeli policies as well as its support to rights of Palestinians, mainly the right of...

http://www.dailytribune.com/articles/2011/07/24/opinion/srv0000012671964.prt When you examine the websites about the United Nations Relief and Work Agency, you get glowing reports of its wonderful humanitarian work. You're told of an agency that is helping care for an estimated 1.5...

Filmaker: “For the Sake of Nakba: The Campaign for the Right of Return” http://forthesakeofnakba.blogspot.com/2010/07/for-sake-of-nakba.html Every aspect of PA education,introduced in the UNRWA refugee camps and in the nascent Palestinian Authority in 1994, http://www.israelbehindthenews.com/library/pdfs/PA-schoolbooks.pdf addresses the right of...

http://blogs.news.sky.com/foreignmatters/Post:9af1d847-da96-4825-9836-47e32000c275 An African UN worker in the West Bank recently remarked to a mutual friend 'When people see me coming they see a walking ATM machine'. Driving through Ramallah, and then Jericho, the other day I...

JINSA Report #1107 http://www.jinsa.org/node/2370 According to the German magazine Der Spiegel, Germany will provide Israel with its sixth Dolphin-class nuclear-capable submarine and subsidize the deal with 135 million Euros. The magazine notes that Germany "donated" the...

Rabbi Benarroch and the author, Aidan Fishman http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com /article_detail.cfm?id=1350&sec=2& title=RABBI_BENARROCH_'S_ SEPHARDIC_JOURNEY-_ CONTINUATION_OF_LIMMUD On June 19th, respected Israeli rabbi and local son Yosef Benarroch gave a presentation in the Kanee Foyer at the Rady Centre as part of Winnipeg’s nascent but...

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/Israeli+ lawyers+stopped+second+flotilla/5076493/story.html Israel has deployed a powerful new strategy against the latest wouldbe Gaza flotilla activists: Bore them to death. For three weeks, the activists aboard the lead flotilla boat, an old freighter renamed the “Tahrir,” have...