Middle East

It was a nonsensical bit of political theater in my opinion, and not much more: The "summit" today at which Sec. of State Condoleezza Rice, Israeli PM Ehud Olmert, and PA President Mahmud Abbas...

Dear President Qayoumi, Mo.Qayoumi@sjsu.edu We are faculty at the University of California and co-founders of the AMCHA Initiative, a grassroots organization committed to investigating, documenting, and combatting campus antisemitism, particularly on California public university campuses. We...

A response to “The dark side of Israel’s vaccine success story”, Mail & Guardian, 13 January 2021 George Orwell, perhaps Great Britain’s greatest gift to Western literature, urged readers to be wary of the deceptive use of...

Two weeks ago, on the eve of the 18th of Sivan, the child Noam Leibowitz was murdered in a shooting attack on the Trans-Israel Highway. Her brother and grandfather were injured in the terror...

http://www.defensenews.com/article/20121216/DEFREG04/312160001/Israel-Develop-Family-New-Armored-Vehicles Israel's Defense Ministry is preparing to launch initial development of Rakiya, a family of light, lethal and self-protected armored vehicles optimized for urban battles beyond 2020. The ambitious program, a fifth-generation follow-on to Israel's...

Edward Djerejian, a key advisor to Baker on his study, told the Jerusalem Post today that there is no intention to force Israel into concessions. Rather, the desire is to "test the intentions of...

...The Jewish right of settlement in the West Bank is conferred by the same provisions of the Mandate under which Jews settled in Haifa, Tel Aviv, and Jerusalem before the State of Israel was...

Presentation by David Bedein, May 2014, in Washington and London Ten Talking Points; 1. This week, the Israeli government made history, when Israeli ambassador to the UN Ron Proser - addressed a symposium at the UN...

The Palestinian Authority today broadcast its leadership's tentative, halting and conditional acceptance of a ceasefire "understanding" with Israel under the terms of the Sharm al-Sheikh summit. The communique, which called for Palestinians to use "peaceful...

IDF Chief of Staff - Cochavi - warns of unprecedented firepower by Hezballah. This firepower (missiles and rockets), coupled with the Hezballah "breakout" strategy of sending forces to invade Israel all along the so-called...