Middle East

JewishWorldReview.com | AIRO -(MCT)Hours after riots forced Tunisian President Zine el Abidine ben Ali to flee his country, hundreds of Egyptians poured into the streets of Cairo with a warning to their own authoritarian president,...

More and more, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have become one of the most powerful - and controversial - pressure blocs in the global arena. In recent weeks, Israel’s parliament established a commission of inquiry into...

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...

The gap between dominant Western perceptions of the Middle East and the region's reality is dangerously wide. While the "Arab Spring" is celebrated as an advance for moderation and democracy, in fact the advance...

http://www.hudson-ny.org/2265/palestinians-cannot-accept-less The Palestinians are divided today into two camps - one that is radical and another that is less radical -- or "moderate" in the words of the West. The radical camp is headed by Hamas...

http://sderotmedia.org.il/bin/content.cgi?ID=804&q=3 Shaked and Maor Harush, 11-year-old twins from Sderot, saw a Qassam rocket explode a few feet away for them, setting a car ablaze. Since then, fear has become an everyday presence in their lives. Shaked...

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...

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=53455 PCHR Palestinian Centre for Human Rights Press Release Ref: 85/2011 Date: 18 August 2011 Time: 12:00 GMT PCHR Is Concerned Security Services’ Interference into Public Liberties in Gaza The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) is gravely concerned over increasing assaults...

http://www.ruthfullyyours.com/2011/09/20/ frank-gaffney-diplomacy-of-september/ In her Pulitzer Prize-winning book, “TheGunsofAugust,” Barbara Tuchman chronicles how a cascading series of seemingly minor developments led inexorably to World War I and the worst carnage known to man up to that time....

http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/reining-abbas-how- america-should-punish-the-palestinian-lead-6028 A new budget battle is brewing between the Republican-led Congress and the Obama White House. This time it’s not about trimming domestic spending. It’s about the $600 million in annual financial assistance the United...