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Syria Expected to Become Missile Exporter
Syria is building its arsenal with North Korean help and is...
A Strategy for Making Peace with the Palestinians
http://www.biu.ac.il/SOC/besa/docs/perspectives179.pdf
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 179, September 4, 2012
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Israel will not be able to make peace with the Palestinians until the Palestinian community gives up its goal of destroying Israel. The Palestinians...
UNRWA Under the Knesset Spotlight
http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/unrwa-under-the-knesset-spotlight/
UNRWA, which serves half a million Palestinian pupils in UNRWA schools,now seeks new funding for UNRWA summer camps and for the new school year.
UNRWA received 1.2 billion dollars in donations last year from more...
“Angst and Resolution”
From the start of this war, I was determined not to criticize the government, as long as it proceeded to do the right thing -- never mind that our actions in our self-defense were...
As Its Middle East Policy Crumbles, The Obama Administration’s Defense: It’s Not a Revolution,...
http://rubinreports.blogspot.co.il/2012/09/as-its-middle-east-policy-crumbles.html
So now we have the answer of the “best and the brightest” expressed in the most explicit terms by American leaders and the mass media.
The problem in the Middle East is not mass revolutionary...
The Gaza Flotilla and International Law
http://www.hoover.org/publications/policy-review/article/86476
On may 31, 2010, in defense of a naval blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip, Israel seized control of the Mavi Marmara in international waters, detained the passengers, and towed the ship to the...
Arafat’s Corruption: the Source of Palestinian Suffering?
According to surveys by the research center of the Israeli Yad Tabenkin, the West Bank per capita gross domestic product (GDP) before the Oslo accord in 1993 was approximately $3,500, and in Gaza, about...
Incisive Commentary from Jerusalem
Posting: March 24, 2008
"Fatah and Hamas"
Well, here we are in the midst of an ever-changing scenario that has yet to play itself out.
Officially, neither the US nor Israel has comment on the agreement signed...
Bush’s Letter to Sharon: With Commentary in Brackets
April 14, 2004
His Excellency Ariel Sharon Prime Minister of Israel
Dear Mr. Prime Minister:
Thank you for your letter setting out your disengagement plan.
The United States remains hopeful and determined to find a way forward toward...
Shia-Sunni schism: A challenge to world peace
http://dawn.com/news/1057412/shia-sunni-schism-a-challenge-to-world-peace
The recent violence in Rawalpindi or the bombing of the Iranian embassy in Beirut are not the only manifestations of the intra-Muslim sectarian discord. The inability of Muslims to settle a 7th century dispute...