Middle East

A Muslim friend who I greatly respect wrote me that he doesn"t understand why I've been complaining about Obama's speeches. I suggested that the problem is he has been reading media coverage which tends to revolve...

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=1169&sec=1&title=_READ_COMMENTARY_MAGAZINE_ON_NAKBA_DAY:_UN_FORCES_DO_LITTLE_OR_NOTHING_TO_STOP_BREACH_OF_ISRAEL'S_BORDERS Photo of grafiti on wall in Deheishe Palestinian Refugee Camp with map of Palestine that wipes out Israel photo by Rhonda Spivak Nakba Day sign in Ramallah put up by PLO (see bottom of sign).Photo taken...

Reading a Tom Friedman column on Bibi and Barack is to take a step into a virtual reality show, where the director, Tom Friedman, says there will be no connection to any real facts...

"A Closer Look" I start today by recommending an article, "Can Obama recognize the 'Nakba' nakba," by Gil Troy: "President Barack Obama came to town riding on a series of assumptions about the Middle East. But...

From the link (Hebrew ×"×פרט×"×™×™×" ×"ערבי): http://www.nrg.co.il/app/index.php?do=blog&encr_id=f2b4c1b55be76d1e6d7b777256ea0370&id=2428 May 14, 2011 The real “nakba,” which is the story of the Arab apartheid. Tens of millions, among them Jews, suffered from the “nakba,” which included dispossession, expulsion and displacement....

Lebanon staging point. Sign says "Iran's Garden" (AP) http://lennybendavid.com/2011/05/one-if-by-land-and-two-if-by-sea.html There are remarkable similarities between the Mavi Marmara flotilla in May 2010 and the Nakba marches from Lebanon, Syria and Gaza on May 15. The Israeli intelligence services...

http://www.newsmax.com/KenTimmerman/iran-israel-syria-hamas/2011/05/17/id/396681 The Iranian regime called the political leaders of Hamas and Hezbollah to Tehran last month, to work out the details of an unprecedented series of protests they wanted them to launch along Israel’s border...

"The Prime Minister's Talk" Prime Minister Netanyahu gave a talk in the Knesset last night, in recognition of the 107th anniversary of the death of Theodore Herzl, father of the Jewish State. This talk is widely...

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4068983,00.html Events that involve enraged masses have a dynamic of their own, especially in the Middle East. They are akin to molten lava, shot out from the belly of a volcano with unexpected force...

http://www.danielpipes.org/ 9790/iraq-province-of-iran After American forces leave Iraq at the end of 2011, Tehran will try to turn its neighbor into a satrapy, i.e., a satellite state, to the great detriment of Western, moderate Arab, and...