Challenge To New Israeli Government

On February 5, outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert ordered 170 million shekels, the equivalent of $43 million, to be transferred to Gaza. Mr. Olmert said the funds represented an Israeli commitment to divert tax...

A review of Middle East Rules of Thumb by Professor Steven Carol (Universe 2008)

During the course of the 20th century, and especially in the years since the 1967 Six Day War, there has been a dramatic change in the academic and popular historiography of the Middle East. The...

Hamas: From Cairo to UNRWA

There is an oft-repeated statement that echoes across the Israeli political spectrum during the current Israeli political campaign, which is Israel will overthrow the Hamas government, which now rules Gaza. With that threat in mind,...

Norwegian Doctor, Mads Gilbert: Member Of Extremist Group

The Norwegian Doctor, Mads Gilbert, entered Gaza a number of days before the Israeli military operation began. In the course of that operation he spoke with numerous media, described himself as an "objective doctor" and...

Islamic Terrorists Forming Cells In America:Hezbollah Expected To Be A Major Threat By 2014

Hezbollah could be one of the first security challenges faced by the new Obama administration. An official government report concludes the Iranian-backed Islamic terror group has been forming sleeper cells throughout the United States...

Navy Refuses To Disarm Vessel Headed To Gaza

President Barack Obama has announced that the U.S. will convene an international conference to stem arms flow to Gaza. Next week, the representatives from the U.S., E.U., Israel and possibly Egypt will meet in Copenhagen,...

Can The Fatah Option Work in Gaza

Israel's three-week military operation in Gaza in December-January has raised the issue of the possible return of Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and his Fatah party to Gaza to replace the Hamas regime. The...

Perpspective of Prof. Efraim Inbar

IMRA contacted Prof. Efraim Inbar to ask him about his proposal fr Egypt and Jordan to control the Gaza Strip and West Bank respectively (see below): IMRA: It doesn't require a particularly fertile imagination to...

Hamas tried to hijack ambulances during war

PALESTINIAN civilians living in Gaza during the three-week war with Israel have spoken of the challenge of being caught between Hamas and Israeli soldiers as the radical Islamic movement that controls the Gaza strip...

Perspective on UNRWA and Terror

The pressure group Arab Media Watch has put out a statement claiming that my observation in my Daily Mail column yesterday, that Hamas has intercepted dozens of aid trucks and confiscated food and medical supplies...