The End of the Beginning in Syria: The Obstacles to Reaching a Negotiated Settlement
http://www.inss.org.il/publications.php?cat=21&incat=&read=6845
Following the recent downing of a Turkish reconnaissance jet by Syrian anti-aircraft, the international community, this time through NATO, is once again debating what course of action should be taken with respect to Syria....
U.S. funds used for Palestinian textbooks that preach hate
http://washingtonjewishweek.com/main.asp?Section
ID=4&SubSectionID=4&ArticleID=16583
Palestinian children are being taught that Israelis are pigs and snakes.
So said Arnon Groiss, senior journalist for the Israel Broadcasting Authority's Arabic Radio, during a congressional briefing last week.
The schools these young refugees attend...
TIME FOR A NEW MIDDLE EAST COVENANT
As more WikiLeaks documents are leaked to the media, the feeling grows that the American administration has abandoned its friends around the Middle East.
Documents show clearly that most leaders of Arab countries have pleaded...
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...
News Analysis: Wiki Leaks Puts an End to the Notion of a Link Between...
Obama and company have been insisting, with enormous perversity, that "peace" between Israel and the PA was necessary in order to make the "moderate" Arab states happy, and that until these states were satisfied,...
Palestinian Suffering Used to Demonize Israel
http://besacenter.org/uncategorized/palestinian-suffering-used-demonize-israel/
Executive Summary: As long as Palestinians continue to serve as lightning rod against Jews, their supposed victimization reaffirming the latter’s millenarian demonization, Israel will never be allowed to defend itself.
No sooner had Israel launched...
The UNRWA Dilemma
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3979/unrwa-dilemma
The Palestinian people, according to a recent study by the Jerusalem Institute of Justice, have received per capita, adjusted for inflation, 25 times more aid than did Europeans to rebuild war-torn Western Europe under...
Nationalism, Social Justice, and Civil Rights: Palestinian Discourse on the Social Networks, April 2012
http://www.inss.org.il/upload/%28FILE%291335769071.pdf
With a lack of consensus in the Palestinian camp on various issues and numerous obstacles to the two main political processes - the political process with Israel and internal Palestinian reconciliation - social network...
Saudi Wahhabis call for the destruction of Shia shrine in Syria
http://www.tehrantimes.com/middle-east/99829-saudi-wahhabis-call-for-the-destruction-of-shia-shrine-in-syria
Amid an escalation of the terrorist attacks on citizens and government buildings in the Syrian capital Damascus, the extremist Wahhabi clerics in Saudi Arabia have called for the destruction of holy shrine of Lady...
Secretary Rice on CNN’s Larry King Live: Hezbollah human shields “very difficult to deal...
QUESTION: Madame Secretary, thanks for joining us. We're getting reports that the United States hopes to have a deal on a U.N. resolution ending the Middle East violence and that deal should come through...