Jordan’s Protests: Arab Spring Lite?
http://www.fpri.org/enotes/2011/201107.helfont_helfont.jordan.html
Samuel Helfont is a Ph.D Candidate in Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University and an Associate Scholar of the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He is the author of Yusuf al-Qaradawi: Islam and Modernity (2009)...
2014 could be even worse
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4481788,00.html
In the year just gone, there was a noticeable decline in the Palestinian Authority's ability to maintain stability in the territory of Judea and Samaria, the annual report from Israel's Shin Bet internal security...
Media Advisory: No cease fire was reached in Gaza this week
As journalists cover the complexities of the Middle East reportage, news agencies often interpret a lull in hostilities as an "armistice" or a "cease-fire", which brings to mind to the agreement that led to...
My special connection to Mama Rachel
It all started from the time I was a little girl riding the bus back and forth from my hometown Efrat to Jerusalem and back. The days were pre Oslo Accords and the only...
The Continuing Peres Center Scandal in Norway: A Look at Norwegian Media Coverage
5/15/02: "However, Dagbladet has learned that Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik is backing Mr Petersen's efforts to 'clear up' the situation. This could mean public hearings involving the questioning of former Foreign...
A Profile of Mahmoud Abbas, a.k.a. Abu Mazen
There are allegations that Abbas funded the terrorist attack at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.
For Germany, the 1972 Munich Olympics were supposed to be "the Carefree Games." There was to be no barbed...
Hamas Wants to Die
http://www.meforum.org/4752/hamas-wants-to-die
It's like the old joke: Why do Jewish men die before their wives? Because they want to. Civilizations for the most part die because they no longer want to live. That is the nub...
U.S. funds used for Palestinian textbooks that preach hate
http://washingtonjewishweek.com/main.asp?Section
ID=4&SubSectionID=4&ArticleID=16583
Palestinian children are being taught that Israelis are pigs and snakes.
So said Arnon Groiss, senior journalist for the Israel Broadcasting Authority's Arabic Radio, during a congressional briefing last week.
The schools these young refugees attend...
“Honey I lost the key”: What happened to the UNRWA two ton key on...
For the past four years, adjacent to the UNRWA headquarters the AL Aida refugee facility in Bethlehem hosted a two ton key rested on top of the entrance to Al Aida, which is shaped...
Eulogy by Dr. Yagil Henkin, Military Historian and Lecturer at the IDF Command and...
I want to tell you a little bit about Eitam.
Eitam was a jokester.
I know it's surprising to say this at a funeral, and all the more so, about a rabbi and scholar who was...