The Questions No One Asks

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4209/the-questions-no-one-asks The Palestinians aspire to control all the holy sites in the Old City of Jerusalem, not only those holy to Islam, but those holy to Christianity and Judaism as well. They understand that they...

Israeli Security Concerns and the Balkans

http://www.balkanalysis.com/blog/2013/03/31/israeli-security-concerns-and-the-balkans/ Heading into April 2013, Israel is confronted with a complexity of issues in the greater Middle East. These include: chronic political disagreements at home; the Syrian conflict next door, with its possibility to affect...

Saudis Will Not Help in Iraq Attack

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- America's closest ally in the Persian Gulf -- Saudi Arabia -- also could be its toughest challenge in building support for a military attack on Iraq. Saudi resistance, spelled...

Justice Dept Designates Al Jazeera ‘Agent of Qatari Government’

AJ+, a subsidiary of Qatar’s media arm Al Jazeera, will now be required to register in the U.S. as a foreign agent, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. The Justice Department also declared the Al Jazeera Media Network an...

Abbas reveals Turkey, Palestine to coordinate legal steps against Israel

http://www.todayszaman.com/news-300950-abbas-reveals-turkey-palestine-to-coordinate-legal-steps-against-israel.html Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday said his country is coordinating with Turkey to develop a legal strategy for the newly recognized UN-observer state of Palestine to challenge Israel's increased settlement activity in the...

Arafat From Defender to Dictator. Part one of book summary

Arafat: From Defender to Dictator by Said Aburish Bloomsbury Publishers, London, 1998 Born August 24, 1929 in Cairo. Named Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat Al Qudua Al Husseini.(Muhammed Abdel Rahman-first name, Abdel Raouf - father's name,...

Egyptian government seizes Brotherhood assets

http://www.aawsat.net/2014/01/article55326297 Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat-Government sources told Asharq Al-Awsat on Tuesday that Egyptian authorities had ordered the seizure of the assets of hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood members because it suspected them of “funding terrorism.” Dr Hisham Kamal,...

Commentary: Appeasement Now

Caroline Glick's first line in her column yesterday: "The world has gone mad." She then proceeds to explain the many reasons why this is so. For example: "As the Palestinians push forward with their Iranian-sponsored,...

Escalating Hamas Attacks a Result of the Arab Spring

http://www.jinsa.org/fellowship-program/evelyn-gordon/escalating-hamas-attacks-result-arab-spring The latest escalation along the Israel-Gaza border - which saw Palestinians fire more than 250 rockets at Israel since Wednesday after Israel, responding to days of only slightly less intensive rocket fire, assassinated a...

“No Arab military west of the Jordan River” Fact or Fiction?

Though the dimensions of the evolving Palestinian state have not yet been decided upon, one thing is almost certain: Palestine will be the Arab neighbor with which Israel shares the longest border. Furthermore, Palestinian...