Middle East

http://rubinreports.blogspot.com/2011/10/simplest-thing-in-world-to-understand.html Media, "experts," and governments finds it very hard to understand an amazing phenomena. No matter what they offer to the Palestinian Authority (PA)--even if it includes money, concessions, and steps toward statehood--the PA says...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anav-silverman/unesco-fueling-cultural-c_b_1104733.html It is a clear blue and busy day in the holy city of Hebron. A small crowd of press gathers around Israeli Minister Yuli Edelstein outside the Tomb of Patriarchs. A Bar Mitzvah celebration...

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/12/14/the_end_of_fayyadism The "Arab Spring" may be pushing the Middle East toward transparency and more representative government, but the Palestinian Authority is bucking the trend. Prime Minister Salaam Fayyad, perhaps the only Palestinian leader who earnestly...

http://www.stonegateinstitute.org/2669/haaretz-newspaper Of the countless threats of Arab violence in the run-up to the November 29, 1947 Partition Resolution and in its wake, none has resonated more widely than the warning by Abdul Rahman Azzam, the...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204136404577211611787862608.html The Obama administration should deem an attack on a synagogue or embassy as tantamount to a military attack on the U.S. The Obama administration should deem an attack on a synagogue or embassy as...

http://rubinreports.blogspot.com/2012/04/hillary-clinton-implies-pro-israel.html Sometimes a secretary of state is asked tough questions. How they are answered shows the underlying philosophy of official and government. I genuinely don’t want to make too much out of a single exchange...

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/context-of-a-hunger-strike-convicts-not-prisoners/ The media around the world are covering the hunger strike conducted by Arabs in Israeli jails, many of whom were convicted in a court of law for murder or attempted murder. In the communications that...

http://freebeacon.com/huffpos-house-jihadi/ A devout Muslim who has praised Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and publicly branded all non-believers as mentally ill “animals” was recently hired to serve as the Huffington Post’s political director in the U.K. Mehdi Hasan,...

http://www.thecommentator.com/article/1376/leaked_foreign_office_documents_reveal_ attitudes_towards_netanyahu_and_palestinian_incitement Documents seen exclusively by The Commentator have revealed disturbing attitudes towards Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the British Government’s analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. While British Prime Minister David Cameron publicly calls the...

http://www.inss.org.il/publications.php?cat=21&incat=&read=9998 In retrospect, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi’s inauguration speech at Cairo University, particularly his oath of allegiance to the military, was misleading. Morsi affirmed: "I pledge to God that I will preserve this institution ...