Middle East

http://www.gloria-center.org/2013/09/how-to-tell-the-good-guys-in-syria/?utm_source=activetrail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Sept%209,%202013,%20GLORIA%20Newsletter Recently, an advocate of an attack on Syria remarked something along the following line to a much wiser expert: “Some nerds try to tell a balanced truth, but that’s not effective in making policy.” I was...

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/11/20/vive_la_freeze_rouhani_diplomacy?page=0,0 Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman is back in Geneva, making another go at an interim agreement between Iran and the so-called E3/EU+3. (That's "E3" as in three European countries: Britain,...

http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=6117 Since the signing of the Geneva agreement, the P5+1 leaders, especially President Obama, have made numerous statements that challenge the very idea of a military option against Iran as a realistic option. Evidenced by...

http://www.timesofisrael.com/as-both-sides-wait-for-kerry-the-refugee-camps-boil/ The explosion Sunday on a bus in Bat Yam didn’t come as a surprise; far from it. The territories are generally heating up, with the feeling that the political process is going nowhere, the expanded...

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=6691&utm_source=MeserEser&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Happy+New+Year+2014 Words play a central role in the conflict with the Palestinians. They influence the way we perceive it, as well as the probability of finding a solution. That is why it is strange that...

Why has Europe begun to question its role in the Palestinian financial system? A recent diplomatic conference highlighted the problems of the Palestinian economy; strikes, corruption, high unemployment, and more. The event was hosted...

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4512842,00.html Mahmoud Abbas ' decision to join forces with the Hamas terror organization, whether it happens or not, is nothing other than a slap in the face of anyone who saw him as a "partner,"...

http://www.israeldefense.com/?CategoryID=483&ArticleID=2887 The upheaval in the Arab world, which began in Tunisia, spread into Egypt, Yemen and Libya and reached Syria in mid-March 2011, has dramatically shaken and transformed the Middle East. The sequence of events...

Slowly but surely Israel is pivoting toward the East. Years ago that would have been a most unexpected development. After all, most of Israel’s population originated from Europe, and most of its leadership had...

http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=7116 Recent events in Iraq are liable to give new impetus to the ideas and the path that ISIS represents, which are shared by many terrorist organizations operating in the Middle East and beyond. Its...