Middle East

The Israel Knesset Parliament will finally  convene again after a 15 month hiatus. That means that The Knesset Lobby for UNRWA reform can now convene,  once again. Volunteers sought to influence donors  to reform UNRWA according...

Recent reports in the Jewish Chronicle have shed light on a disheartening development within Israeli politics. Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu, during a briefing at the Israel Knesset Parliament Foreign Affairs and Security Committee, declared that...

Kibbutz Nir Am is a small community on the immediate outskirts of Sderot. It is so close to Sderot that many Kibbutz members walk to Synagogues there for Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, and other...

In "Obama, Israelis, and Palestinians: More Words, Less Action" by David Makovsky and David Pollack of the Washington Institute for Near East Affairs: http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/01/obama-israelis-and-palestinians-more-words-less-action/267061/ The authors write that "the U.S. should urge Israel to dismantle the...

One fundamental civil right that the US government bestows on any US citizens living outside the United States is the opportunity for any child of US citizens who left America after the age of...

The Biden administration’s outgoing ambassador to Israel personally signed off on a controversial $1 million grant to a program critics said was meant to delegitimize Israel, according to internal State Department communications obtained by...

http://www.menewsline.com Israeli analysts have warned that the Jewish state could be flooded by refugees from neighboring Jordan and Syria. They said the expansion of Islamic State of Iraq and Levant threatens to spark an exodus of hundreds...

Recent moves of the US administration on the Palestinian arena (deducting $200 million from US aid and probably adopting a new approach on Palestinian refugees) are signs that as we approach the 25th anniversary...

The Biden administration is pressuring Israel to define its plan for “the day after.” This is a bit like demanding America have a plan for postwar Japan weeks after Pearl Harbor. But worse, Washington insists the...

One of the drawbacks of longevity is that when that person dies, his impact on history may be lost on a new generation who did not know who he was. Such is the case...