Middle East

http://www.propublica.org/article/the-terror-threat-and-irans-inroads-in-latin-america Last year, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visited his ally President Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, where the firebrand leaders unleashed defiant rhetoric at the United States. There was a quieter aspect to Ahmadinejad's visit in January...

http://www.gloria-center.org/2013/07/kerry-runs-around-in-rings/ Once again a lot of people think that Secretary of State John Kerry is on the verge of making a breakthrough toward peace. The problem is that these people believe that the contenders were...

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3907/muslim-brotherhood-radicalizing Following another night of violence in Cairo during which 72 people were killed, The New York Times accused the military led government of Abdul Fattah al Sisi of "radicalizing" the Muslim Brotherhood. "For all...

4PM, Mon Sept 2 2013, at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem, Gail Winston, founder http://WinstonIsraelInsight.com, dedicated to the legacy of Emanuel Winston, invites you to an audiovisual program: 20 years since the Oslo Accords:...

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/13776#.UieKMxXn_IU Warfare is a very serious business whose first imperative is to deploy force to win - rather than to punish, make a statement, establish a symbolic point, or preen about one's morality. Yet, these latter...

http://www.inss.org.il/publications.php?cat=21&incat=&read=11973 Until the publication of reports that Bashar Assad’s army carried out a large attack using chemical weapons in an eastern suburb of Damascus, Washington had not seriously considered military intervention in Syria. In light...

http://rubinreports.blogspot.co.il/2013/09/by-barry-rubin-original-supposed-intent.html The original supposed intent of this whole Syria exercise--punishing Bashar al-Assad's use of chemical weapons--has achieved zero. In fact, it has backfired. "Russian credibility is not in question," my colleague Dr. Jonathan Spyer pointed out,...

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/359152/rouhani-big-apple-elliott-abrams The second-in-command of the world’s greatest state sponsor of terrorism is coming to New York. Cause for celebration? Hassan Rouhani is Iran’s new president, chosen in an undemocratic election. Rouhani has spent his life in...

http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=5855 Transparency, for example, in the nuclear realm, tends to be regarded as an inherently positive value in international relations circles - to wit, the more transparent you are, the better. But is this true...

http://www.timesofisrael.com/financing-the-flames-from-a-mobile-home-in-florida/ Illustrative photo of Palestinian and foreign activists during a 2010 protest against the security barrier at the West Bank village of Bil'in, near Ramallah (photo credit: Issam Rimawi / Flash90) A regular feature of West...