Middle East

"I can assure you," Barak Obama said, speaking at the local police station against a backdrop of Kassam rockets, "if someone was sending rockets into my house where my two daughters sleep at night,...

Gaza - Hamas leader Osama Al-Mazini promised on Monday to deliver a letter from the family of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit if the prisoner survived Israel's assault on Gaza last winter. "Hamas received the letter and promised...

On Tuesday Fatah will hold its sixth congress in Bethlehem, at which point a draft party platform will be put to the vote. That draft explicitly notes that Israel must not be recognized as a Jewish...

Barry Rubin*

http://www.biu.ac.il/SOC/besa/docs/perspectives133.pdf BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 133, March 16, 2011 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Three forces are now competing for control of Egypt: the army, the Muslim Brotherhood, and various other opposition organizations. The outcome depends on...

http://www.redstate.com/dhorowitz3/2011/07/06/the-palestinian-accountability-act/ One of the more intractable components of our foreign policy dating back to the Clinton years has been the obsession of creating a Palestinian state. The career egghead diplomats in the State Department believed...

The United States has formally concluded that Iran shared responsibility in the Al Qaida suicide air strikes in which more than 3,000 people were killed in 2001. A U.S. federal district court has determined that...

http://www.ngo-monitor.org/article/human_wrongs_the_worst_of _amnesty_hrw_and_others_in _ JERUSALEM - With 2011 concluding, NGO Monitor today released a list of the most outrageous and absurd NGO actions from the past year, demonstrating the political nature of NGOs involved in the Arab-Israeli...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303592404577364283553552766.html?mod=googlenews_wsj Many of Iran's crimes are well-known to Americans and observers world-wide. The Tehran regime wants to build a nuclear weapon despite being a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty; it supports the brutal crackdown...

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3072/fatah-hamas-lie Over the past five years, Hamas and Fatah have lied many times to their people about ending their power struggle, which has resulted in the creation of two separate Palestinian entities in the West...