Middle East

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...

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3101/unilateral-withdrawal-west-bank Israel's Defense Minister Ehud Barak believes that Israel should consider a unilateral withdrawal from the West Bank if negotiations with the Palestinian Authority fail to bear fruit. Under the current circumstances, such a move would...

http://www.haaretz.com/misc/article-print-page/israeli-leadership-suffers-from-unilateral-withdrawal-syndrome.premium-1.434427?trailingPath=2.169%2C2.225%2C2.227%2C It seems that some of our military-men-turned-politicians are suffering from the unilateral withdrawal syndrome. It may be typical of the military mindset: Get it over with! Finish the job! Do something! Do anything! Actually,...

http://www.biu.ac.il/SOC/besa/docs/perspectives177.pdf EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Israel has good reason to fear that Syria’s chemical and biological weapons arsenal could fall into the wrong hands - to terrorist elements within Syria, to an even more hostile Syrian regime,...

http://www.jewishpolicycenter.org/3309/egypt-fully-remilitarizing-sinai-with-us-help Egypt has moved forces into the Sinai beyond what was agreed to in the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty. Getting them in wasn't that difficult - Israel agrees that security in the Sinai has deteriorated. Getting...