Fatah and Hamas Lie to Their People

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...

Whose taxpayers fund UNRWA?

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/Whose-taxpayers-fund-UNRWA-322135#_methods=onPlusOne%2C_ready%2C_close%2C_open%2C_resizeMe%2C_renderstart%2Concircled&id=I0_1375747952821&parent=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jpost.com&pfname=&rpctoken=43187279 The United Nations Relief and Work Agency is the only UN refugee agency dedicated to a single group of people. It is the only agency that designates individuals as original refugees if they lived...

Proof of a Scandal: U.S. Policy is Making Syria into an Anti-Western, Antisemitic Islamist...

http://www.gloria-center.org/2012/12/proof-of-a-scandal-u-s-policy-is-making-syria-into-an-anti-western-antisemitic-islamist-state/ In his article “The Revolt of Islam in Syria” (Jerusalem Post, December 12), Jonathan Spyer - senior fellow at the GLORIA Center - points out compelling information about the new Western-backed leadership in Syria. The...

Russia’s new Middle Eastern role

http://www.meforum.org/3528/russia-middle-east-role Russia has thrown a monkey wrench into Western plans for Syria by promising to deliver its top-of-the-line S300 surface-to-air missile system to the Bashar al-Assad government. Exactly when the missiles might arrive remains unclear;...

Incisive News Diary

Posting: May 5, 2008 "Who Knows?" Who knows how this latest potential scandal with Olmert will play out... In spite of the fact that police are arguing that the investigation and its legal implications takes precedence over...

Turkish-Hamas Relations: Between Strategic Calculations and Ideological A!nity

Introduction While the deterioration in Israel-Turkey relations over the past decade is rooted in many factors, perhaps what exemplifies this deterioration most is the closeness forged between the Justice and Development Partyled government and Hamas....

Analysis: Turmoil in Egypt

As Egypt's much-anticipated moment of crisis arrived and popular rebellions shook governments across the Middle East, Iran stands as never before at the center of the region. Its Islamist rulers are within sight of...

The Classified Diplomatic Cables Published by Wikileaks are the Pentagon Papers of the Pro-Israel...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at a press conference in Tehran today. Behrouz Mehri/AFP/Getty Images Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has positioned himself as a left-wing whistleblower whose life mission is to call the United States to task...

ISIL Still Gains Amid U.S. Strikes

The Islamic State of Iraq and Levant continues to score gains in the war in Iraq, a report said. The Center for Security and International Studies has warned that NATO air strikes on Iraq and Syria...

Syria: The Empire Strikes Back

http://www.gloria-center.org/2013/05/syria-the-empire-strikes-back/ By Truthout.org “My opponent’s reasoning reminds me of the who, being asked on what the world stood, replied, `On a tortoise.’ But on what does the tortoise stand? `On another tortoise....There are tortoises all...