Middle East

http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=2&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID= 111&FID=443&PID=0&IID=11619&TTL=Will_Palestinian_Reconciliation_Lead_to _a_Hamas_Takeover_of_the_PLO ? PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal reached an agreement in Cairo on 22 December on national reconciliation and a strategic partnership. A new temporary leadership was formed for the PLO,...

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/291500/ever- growing-palestinian-problem-daniel-pipes Of all the issues that drive the Arab-Israeli conflict, none is more central, malign, primal, enduring, emotional, and complex than the status of those persons known as Palestinian refugees. The origins of this unique case,...

http://www.inss.org.il/upload/%28FILE%291335095437.pdf The anticipated meeting between Benjamin Netanyahu and Salam Fayyad did not take place, and by all indications, the meeting with Saeb Erekat and the Palestinian intelligence chief did not produce any significant results. According...

Leaked documents on Arab-Israeli conflict promote misinformation from NGO grantees Background Since 2010, six documents from the offices of EU representatives in Israel and the Palestinian Authority - dealing with the central, complex, and sensitive issues...

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/facilitate-justice-for-migrant-workers/ On May 29, 2012, the economics page of the Israel’s leading daily newspaper, Yediot Aharonot, carried a news story which reported that the Israel Hotel Owners Association dispatched a delegation to negotiate with Israeli...

Following the revelation by UN WATCH that the UN would not condemn the ajUly 18 attack in Bulgaria as an act of terror,http://www.unwatch.org/cms.asp?id=3315753&campaign_id=63111 our agency contacted Farhan Haq,the spokesman of the UN Sec'y General...

http://www.biu.ac.il/SOC/besa/docs/perspectives176.pdf EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The Commission to Examine the Status of Building in Judea and Samaria (the "Levy report") has drawn a flurry of overwrought criticism due to its inclusion of a section concerning the lawfulness...

http://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/news/12161/wjc_analysis_is_the_war_in_syria_undermining_the_palestinian_claim_to_the_right_of_return _ The fate of the Assad regime in Syria has been the main focus of media attention in recent months. Yet, another crisis has quietly developed on the sidelines of the Syrian calamity which...

http://www.menewsline.com Israel has assessed that it must prepare for a month-long war with Iran and its proxies. Israeli military and intelligence community have discussed a range of scenarios of war between Iran and the Jewish state....

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/08/21/iran-isolated-tell-it-to-the-united-nations-ban-ki-moon-non-aligned-movement/ The Obama administration is still asserting that diplomacy and sanctions will halt Iran’s drive for nuclear weapons without the need for either Israel or the United States to resort to force. At the core...