Middle East

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=1004&sec=1 Emergency workers were greeted with the sight of 22 people already dead in the Passover bombing Photo by Reuters The PA daily al-Hayat reports on Palestinian Minister Karake's award of celebratory plaque to the family of...

http://news.yahoo.com/us-activist-death-israel-accident-witness-174022486.html A key witness in a civil case brought by the family of US activist Rachel Corrie, killed by an Israeli bulldozer during a demonstration in Gaza, said on Sunday that she had caused her...

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/Israeli+ lawyers+stopped+second+flotilla/5076493/story.html Israel has deployed a powerful new strategy against the latest wouldbe Gaza flotilla activists: Bore them to death. For three weeks, the activists aboard the lead flotilla boat, an old freighter renamed the “Tahrir,” have...

Middle East Newsline,http://www.menewsline.com/ Israel's military plans a crackdown on Jewish housing in the West Bank. The Israeli military's Civil Administration has ordered an increase in the demolition of unlicensed Jewish homes in the West Bank. The...

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=1620&sec=1&title= PALESTINIAN_ENVOY_TO_CANADA_IS_ASKED_TO_LEAVE_OTTAWA_AFTER_ CONTROVERSIAL_TWEET _ "The English subtitles on the video PA envoy tweeted include a passage where millions are called “to a war that raze the injustice and oppression and destroy the Jews.” Just as the Palestinian Authority...

http://pjmedia.com/barryrubin/2011/11/18/why-don%e2%80%99t-western- elites-get-the-middle-east-because-they-think-it%e2%80%99s-just-like-them-sort-of/ I’ve come to realize a hitherto hidden dimension of why it is so hard for Western establishment figures (policymakers, journalists, and academics) to understand the Middle East. It is the conflict between the thirst...

A member of the Israeli Knesset Parliament intends to ask the U.N. to close down the aid agency that assists Palestinian refugees living in Judea and Samaria, Gaza and Jerusalem, saying the organization poses...

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/dec/2/a-dubious-death-in-dubai/ It has all the hallmarks of the perfect crime. On the surface, it appeared to be a suicide. The body was arranged peacefully on the floor, with no signs of struggle, a white sheet...

http://schanzer.pundicity.com/11725/status-update A war is brewing on Capitol Hill. And while wars tend to create refugees, this one may result in fewer of them. Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL) is trying to get a handle on the real...