UN REPORT – HIZBULLAH USED Al Qaida-aligned MERCERNARIES AGAINST ISRAEL

Hizbullah recruited nearly 1,000 Al Qaida-aligned Sunnis to fight Israel in the war in Lebanon in mid-2006. A United Nations report said at least 720 Sunnis from Somalia were recruited by Hizbullah to fight Israel...

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,...

Commentary: the Baker-Hamilton Report

The Baker-Hamilton Report has been released. We already knew about the approach of appeasement it recommended: Engage Iran and Syria on the issue of Iraq. But there is more. It is not just appeasement,...

Incisive Commentary

December 6, 2007 "Stumbling Blocks" Here we have, as if they were needed, more reasons why negotiating with the PA is impossible: The Hamas-dominated Palestinian Legislative Council has passed a law (first reading) saying that any concession...

Israel Renews Construction Supply Sale To Gaza

An area where Israel continues to cope with is the world wide campaign against Israel’s restrictions of potentially lethal exports into Gaza. Since the Hamas terror takeover of Gaza in June 2007, Israel did halt...

Washington Institute for Near East Policy : Gap Between U.S., Saudis Widens Over Iran

WASHINGTON -- The gap between Saudi Arabia and the United States has been widening over policy toward a nuclear Iran, a report said. The Washington Institute for Near East Policy asserted that the Saudis appear far...

The New Middle East

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=210724 If the mullahs aren’t overthrown, the New Middle East will be a very dark and dangerous place. A new Middle East is upon us and its primary beneficiary couldn’t be happier. In a speech Monday in the...

Egypt and Iran: Will the Two Walk Together? INSS Insight

http://www.inss.org.il/publications.php?cat=21&incat=&read=6871 Until Mubarak’s ouster, Egypt, which viewed the Islamic Revolution as a threat to its regime, was a central link in the axis of anti-Iran Arab nations. The more than 30 years following the Khomeini...

“Radicalizing” the Muslim Brotherhood

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3907/muslim-brotherhood-radicalizing Following another night of violence in Cairo during which 72 people were killed, The New York Times accused the military led government of Abdul Fattah al Sisi of "radicalizing" the Muslim Brotherhood. "For all...

US Military Intervention in Syria: The Broad Strategic Purpose, Beyond Punitive Action

http://www.inss.org.il/publications.php?cat=21&incat=&read=11973 Until the publication of reports that Bashar Assad’s army carried out a large attack using chemical weapons in an eastern suburb of Damascus, Washington had not seriously considered military intervention in Syria. In light...