The Iraqi Model: As Good As It Gets

http://rubinreports.blogspot.com/2012/04/iraqi-model-as-good-as-it-gets.html Iraq is in a mess. Violence continues. Factionalism leads to endless bickering. Corruption is at high levels. Christians live in fear or flee altogether. Islamism is constantly creeping forward. Yet I would suggest that...

PA Could Use Troops Against Israel

www.menewsline.com The Palestinian Authority could use its tens of thousands of troops for a new war against Israel, a report said. The Institute for National Security Studies asserted that PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas could order Palestinian...

How Egypt’s Presidential Election Will Change the Middle East and the World

http://rubinreports.blogspot.com/2012/04/how-egypts-presidential-election-will.html What might well be the most significant election in Middle East history is about to happen yet the situation and its implications are simply not understood abroad. On May 23-24, with a probable run-off...

Pro-Palestinian or Anti-Israel?

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3035/pro-palestinian-anti-israel Pro-Palestinian groups and individuals in the US and Europe are doing Palestinians injustice by devoting all their energies only against Israel. There is a feeling in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that most of...

Israeli Attack on Iran Won’t Follow the American Script

http://www.jinsa.org/fellowship-program/jinsa-fellows/israeli-attack-iran-wont-follow-american-script "Credible experts," wrote New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof in March, "overwhelmingly" view an Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear facilities as "a catastrophically bad idea," deeming the benefits uncertain and the consequences dire: An...

Peres on eve of state visits abroad: Lauds Abbas & Fayad Ignores their schools-...

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/peres-on-eve-of-state-visits-abroad-lauds-abbas-fayad-ignores-their-schools-to-whom-is-he-accountable/ This month, Israel’s President, Shimon Peres, travels to Canada and to the United States. Israel’s president is not supposed to make political statements nor engage in diplomatic forays. Israel’s presidency is supposed to be largely a...

U.S. envoy for combating antisemitism: jordan refuses to teach about holocaust because it will...

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=2494&sec=1 Hannah Rosenthal, the State Department's envoy for combating anti-Semitism was very dissatisfied with a visit she had with Jordan's Minister of Education in 2011 because he told her he refused to teach about the...

The Rhetoric of Nonsense

http://www.meforum.org/3262/palestinian-history-nonsense For nearly two decades the Palestinian Authority (PA) has been denying Israel's right to exist, and a recent "Nakba Day" was no exception. In a Gaza speech on behalf of Mahmoud Abbas, his personal...

Israel’s Pending Migration Disaster

http://www.fpri.org/enotes/2012/201207.stock.egypt.html In The Picture of Dorian Gray, the famous novel written by the Anglo-Irish author Oscar Wilde, the seemingly ageless protagonist hides a terrible secret: All of his vices have been engraved onto the face...

What the Iranian People “Really Think”… and How to Help Them

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3226/iranian-people We should be extremely suspicious of public opinion surveys that purport to reveal what Iranians -- or anyone else in totalitarian countries -- "really think." They are not going to speak openly to anyone...