A LOOK AT INTERNATIONAL SURVEY DATA ABOUT ARAB OPINION

http://www.gloria-center.org/2013/12/a-look-at-international-survey-data-about-arab-opinion/ This article evaluates Arab public opinion with the “Arab Opinion Index” by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies (ACRPS) in Doha, Qatar. The Index covers 12 Arab countries with 85 percent...

Hamas got rich as Gaza was plunged into poverty

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4543634,00.html While the fighting is only expected to worsen the distress of the residents of Gaza, the Strip's economic outlook for the Strip was never good. The unemployment rate in Gaza stood at approximately 40%...

The corruption at the head of Hamas

http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-the-corrution-at-the-head-of-hamas-1000956048 1.8 million people live in the Gaza Strip, most of them refugees. They endure an unemployment rate that reaches 40%, shameful poverty, rock bottom wages, and, to top it all, an apparently corrupt regime,...

Signs of Iraqi Arms Buildup Bedevil U.S. Administration

Washington, Jan. 31 -- Satellite photographs and American intelligence reports have shown that Iraq has in the last year rebuilt military and industrial sites damaged by American and British air strikes in late 1998,...

Official PA radio news – The P.B.C. VOP (Voice of Palestine) Radio: January 23-24

Tuesday Night, January 23rd "The National Authority condemns the killing of two Israeli civilians and is beginning an investigation into the details of the incident; Israel suspends the talks in Taba until after the funeral of...

ISRAEL TARGETS JIHAD CHARITIES

Israel has targeted Islamic charities... in an effort to block financing to Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Officials said the intelligence community has been identifying and tracking Islamic charities, known as Dawa, in the West Bank...

Israel launches dialogue with the Saudis

ISRAEL, SAUDIS BEGIN DIALOGUE ON REGION The government of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has launched a dialogue with Saudi Arabia to ensure stability in the Middle East. Western diplomatic sources said Olmert, with the help...

Commentary: Saudi Plans…

The Saudi government seems to be ever so quietly knifing the Bush administration in the back. I wrote last week about a piece by Dore Gold in which he said that the Saudis have...

DAVID BEDEIN: ON ASSIGNMENT IN ANNAPOLIS FOR THE PHILADELPHIA BULLETIN

11/26/2007 "The Annapolis Summit Has Begun" Jerusalem - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert arrived in the U.S. yesterday and said that Israel would take a positive view of Syrian participation in the Annapolis conference and negotiations...

SHIP OF FOOLS: WHY THE SITUATION IN IRAN HAS CHANGED IRREVOCABLY

There is something hypnotic about the 15th century painting by Hieronymus Bosch, The Ship of Fools. The painting being very small, I used to use a magnifying glass to identify all of the secrets packed...