Palestine

http://www.defensenews.com/article/20140625/DEFREG04/306250036/Israel-Tests-New-Counter-Abduction-Strategy-Ongoing-West-Bank-Op Israel is leveraging its ongoing West Bank operation against Hamas, the Islamic organization it blames for the June 12 abduction of three missing teens, to test a new strategy for deterring terrorist trade in...

http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/06/26/four-facts-that-everyone-should-know-about-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict/ A Haganah member and others during Israel's War of Independence. Photo: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Most Westerners, including many Jews, are unaware of four fundamental facts about the Jewish homeland of Israel that would...

http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/new-palestinian-poll-shows-hardline-views-but-some-pragmatism-too A reliable new West Bank/Gaza public opinion survey conducted on June 15-17 -- the only such poll since the current kidnapping crisis began -- shows that Palestinian popular attitudes have hardened considerably on long-term...

http://www.thenational.ae/thenationalconversation/comment/after-success-in-iraq-and-syria-isil-will-find-it-tougher-to-crack-jordan Lost in the flurry of rambling threats to Iraq’s Shiite community during its surprise military blitz last week, the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) issued an even bolder statement: a call...

At a time when the Arab Israeli war continues into its seventh decade, the most persistent issue of that war remains the "right of return", the demand of Arab refugees to take back villages...

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=64019 "Cold-Blooded Murder" or a War on Terror?Lt. Col. (ret.) Jonathan D. HaleviJerusalem Issue Briefs Vol. 14, No. 18 June 9, 2014http://jcpa.org/article/cold-blooded-murder-or-a-war-on-terror/ -Saeb Erekat, the chief Palestinian negotiator, claims that all the Palestinian "victims" since the...

http://www.the-american-interest.com/articles/2014/06/02/taking-irans-anti-semitism-seriously/ Radical, theologically based hatred of Judaism, Zionism, and the state of Israel is part of the core ideological beliefs of the leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Yet U.S. policymakers all too rarely...

Mohammed Assaf, the 24 year old UNRWA resident who won the Arab Idol song competition has become an overnight and worldwide sensation. His victory song was entitled “Raise Your Keffiyah” a PLO anthem and...

http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/05/21/how-unrwa-perpetuates-the-palestinian-crisis-review/ UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, was created in 1949 after the Arabs rejected the 1947 UN Partition Plan for Palestine, and five Arab armies...

http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/05/israel-egypt-security-cooperation-netanyahu-livni-nuclear.html An Egyptian soldier stands near the Egyptian national flag and the Israeli flag at the Taba crossing between Egypt and Israel, about 430 kilometers (256 miles) northeast of Cairo, Oct. 26, 2011. (photo by...