Middle East

Israel has assessed that Iran was unlikely to launch a regional war even its nuclear infrastructure was destroyed. Israel's leading strategic institute has concluded that Teheran would demonstrate restraint in wake of an Israeli strike...

http://freebeacon.com/iran-announces-development-of-ballistic-missile-technology/ A top Iranian military leader announced late Tuesday that Iran has developed “indigenous” ballistic missile technology, which could eventually allow it to fire a nuclear payload over great distances. Brigadier General Hossein Salami, the lieutenant...

http://rubinreports.blogspot.co.il/2013/12/why-israeli-palestinian-agreement-is.html It makes sense that the Israel-Palestinian agreement is being made with Obama and Kerry in charge. The deal offers a kind of neo-mandate, with an American presence entrenched in the Jordan Valley for the...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: While Israel and the West are focused on the Iranian threat, another dangerous entity is emerging in the Middle East. Attempts by al-Qaeda and other radical Sunni Islamist groups to challenge the...

http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=6435 On January 22, 2014 representatives of the international community once again reconvened in Switzerland in an attempt to broker a negotiated agreement to end the bloody Syrian civil war. Since the last round of...

http://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/truth-behind-palestinian-water-libels/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=truth-behind-palestinian-water-libels EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Water shortages in the Palestinian Authority are the result of Palestinian policies that deliberately waste water and destroy the regional water ecology. The Palestinians refuse to develop their own significant underground water...

http://www.jwire.com.au/featured-articles/in-every-generation-writes-michael-kuttner/41852#more-41852 Once again as we have done since the Exodus of our ancestors from Egypt, Jews worldwide will be sitting down together with family and friends to recount the dramas associated with that history making...

http://www.buzzfeed.com/sheerafrenkel/the-us-has-been-speaking-to-hamas-through-backchannels-for-o JERUSALEM - United States officials have been holding secret back-channel talks with Hamas over the last six months to discuss their role in the newly formed unity government, according to two senior diplomatic sources...

http://www.meforum.org/4734/fall-of-mosul Daniel Pipes, president of the Middle East Forum and a former official in the U.S. departments of State and Defense, briefed the Middle East Forum in a conference call on June 16, 2014. The implications...

http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/insideisrael/2014/August/Envoy-Hamas-the-Real-Culprit-in-UN-School-Strike/ Israel is facing fresh accusations of hitting another UN school in Gaza Sunday. That comes as Israel appears to be scaling back in fight for now and preparing for a possible drawdown. A number of tanks...