Middle East

For the first time since the Oslo peace process started 18 years ago, Palestinian leaders are openly refusing to negotiate with the government of Israel, and U.S. President Barack Obama's administration is doing very...

It has arguably not been a good week for Palestinianian Authortiy President Mahmoud Abbas. Last Saturday February 5, The Palestinian Authority finally allowed a protest to take place in Ramallah in solidarity with thre Egyptian...

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/the_un_hatefest_coming_to_new_york_aw4H2No7x0ixxOjjb942jO Will this September's UN anti-racism conference in New York be yet another anti-Semitic, anti-Israel hatefest -- or will it actually work to forward human rights? Known as Durban III, the confab comes 10 years after...

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/04/the_palestinian_authority_what.html Well-placed leaks within the last few days suggest that President Obama may be about to announce a proposal for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. One of the plan's tenets is expected to be acceptance of...

http://blogs.news.sky.com/foreignmatters/Post:9af1d847-da96-4825-9836-47e32000c275 An African UN worker in the West Bank recently remarked to a mutual friend 'When people see me coming they see a walking ATM machine'. Driving through Ramallah, and then Jericho, the other day I...

JINSA Report #1107 http://www.jinsa.org/node/2370 According to the German magazine Der Spiegel, Germany will provide Israel with its sixth Dolphin-class nuclear-capable submarine and subsidize the deal with 135 million Euros. The magazine notes that Germany "donated" the...

http://pajamasmedia.com/barryrubin/2011/10/12/strategic- notes-on-the-gilad-prisoner-exchange/?singlepage=true There are some substantial misunderstandings on the nature of the Gilad Shalit exchange deal. I should stress that the list of those Palestinian prisoners being given in exchange for him has not yet been...

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=241973 No matter what the Palestinian Authority is offered - money, concessions and even steps toward statehood- the response is always “no.” Media, academic “experts” and governments seem to find this amazing phenomenon very hard...

http://rubinreports.blogspot.com/2012/05/obama-government-backs-atrocity.html How can one write satire when the Obama Administration has created an Atrocities Prevention Board to prevent mass murder and genocide at the same time as it has been largely supporting the forces most...