Middle East

Recently, I had a conversation with an Israeli cousin who asserted that all the world's Jews should live in Israel. Recognizing that there is no other place in the world in which Jews are...

NGO: U.N. Probe Ignored Evidence on Islamist Passengers’ Bid for ‘Martyrdom’ GENEVA, Sept. 28 - The U.N. commission into Israel’s May 31 flotilla clash declared during a U.N. Human Rights Council debate today that “even...

The United Nations wants very much to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They want that so badly, that Israel just can’t seem to get off the agenda in the subcommittees and the leaders’ speeches. Paradoxically, UNRWA-a sub-agency...

A response to a column by Charles Krauthammer -- “Your move, Mr. Abbas” -- that appeared in the Washington Post on September 10, 2010 and can be found at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/09/AR2010090904999.html Charles Krauthammer commends President Obama for...

Rabbi Abraham Cooper is associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and historian Harold Brackman is a consultant to the center. In conjunction with his appearance at the U.N. General Assembly and meeting with President...

Two uniformed PA gaurds stand by Arafat's grave in Ramallah in the West Bank. The grave has a verse from the Koran. Photo by Rhonda Spivak. The newly rebuilt Muqata in Ramallah, which is located...

Sept.21, 2010 Israel Public Relations Minister Yuli Edelstein bitterly assailed his coalition partner, Israel Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, fearing that Barak might try to promote an independent policy decision of his own to extend the construction...

email: mkedar@mail.biu.ac.il Dr. Mordechai Kedar (Ph.D. Bar-Ilan U.) Served for 25 years in IDF Military Intelligence specializing in Arab political discourse, Arab mass media, Islamic groups and the Syrian domestic arena. This time the message is...

This week, Palestinian Authority leaders Machmud Abbas and Salam Fayyad arrive in Washington. According to reports that have appeared in both the Haaretz and the Jerusalem Post newspapers, the purpose of their trip is...

There are basically two ways to approach the Middle East: * Option 1: Understand what makes Farsi- and Arabic-speaking, Muslim-majority societies different from the West given their history, experiences, culture, politics, and other features. * Option...