Middle East

Many Palestinians in Gaza, no matter their religious affiliation or political bent, are living in squalor and growing ignorance. Thousands are trying to flee. Gaza has never been a prosperous enclave; the 140-square-mile territory has...

http://www.gloria-center.org/Gloria/2010/01/muslim-world-iran The ongoing demonstrations in Iran are testimony to the continued strength and resilience of Iranian civil society. They make a mockery of the Islamic Republic's ambition of offering a model for successful Muslim governance...

JERUSALEM - Judge Richard Goldstone gained notoriety in Israel over the past year when the U.N. human rights commission that he chaired made the determination that Israel committed war crimes and criticized the Israeli...

Several members of the United States Congress have sponsored legislation aimed at putting an end to Arab incitement against Israel. Now an Israeli reporter is calling on the government to state its own position,...

Photo by: courtesy The new House Foreign Affairs Committee chairwoman says she is determined to ‘show Israel that we are strongly in its corner.' WASHINGTON - Ileana Ros-Lehtinen wasn’t pleased. She had just moved into her...

The Obama administration is pressing a reset button to return the Middle East to the bad old days of open Arab-Israeli warfare. The White House is requiring participation of the Muslim Brotherhood in any...

MK YULI YOEL EDELSTEIN MINISTER OF PUBLIC DIPLOMACY AND DIASPORA AFFAIRS To Mr. Mark Zuckerberg Facebook Founder and CEO Dear Mr. Zuckerberg, During these past few days a Facebook page entitled "Third Palestinian Intifada" has been garnering attention on the web...

The troubled academic study of the Middle East and Islam by Americans is changing in fundamental ways. I offer some thoughts based on 42 years of personal observation: From Western offence to Islamic offence:...

http://www.cjnews.com/index.php?option=com_content &task=view&id=22099&Itemid=86 TORONTO - An Israeli watchdog group is urging western governments to make their aid to the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) conditional on changes to Palestinian texts taught in UNRWA schools. David Bedein, right,...

Matters of Immediate Concern 1. There has been disregard of legal decisions of grave criminality. The offenses of many of those being released are admitted to involve multiple crimes of the most serious character possible. To ignore...