Saudi Arabia

http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=6660 A recent article in Newsweek reported that “according to a well-placed intelligence source,” in 2007 Saudi Arabia began to purchase CSS-5 (DF-21) ground-to-ground missiles from China. While similar reports appeared in the past, the...

http://www.unwatch.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=bdKKISNqEmG&b=1285603&ct=13660667¬oc=1 We have just learned that following UN Watch's campaign exposing and opposing the most biased candidates vying to replace the outgoing Richard Falk -- as the UN's permanent investigator on "Israel's violations of the...

House and Senate members have expressed worry that U.S. aid to Lebanon's military and security forces could end up with the Iranian-sponsored Hizbullah. Congress has determined that Hizbullah controlled much of Lebanon's military and...

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...

http://csis.org/publication/saudi-arabia-iran-and-clash-within-civilization No one has ever been able to travel to the Gulf without discovering just how different the perspectives and values of the West and the Middle East can be. During the last two...

http://www.meforum.org/3715/arab-league-peace The disconnect between the past and the present in the Middle East is growing fast. Consider the anachronism called the Arab League. In December, after an "emergency meeting" called by Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, Arab...

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=6929 U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is once again in town trying to reach a framework agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. One of the issues of dispute is the fate of the...

http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=62779 The Jordan Valley: Israel’s Security Belt by Prof. Efraim Inbar January 6, 2014 BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 232 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Israel must resist international pressure and hold on to the Jordan Valley - its only...

http://jcpa.org/multiplying-efforts-to-undermine-the-unique-status-of-mecca-in-islam/ The status of the Islamic holy places or, more precisely, the undermining of their status, has become part of the struggle over the nature of the Middle East. The Sunnis destroy sites that are...

http://rubinreports.blogspot.co.il/2013/12/why-israeli-palestinian-agreement-is.html It makes sense that the Israel-Palestinian agreement is being made with Obama and Kerry in charge. The deal offers a kind of neo-mandate, with an American presence entrenched in the Jordan Valley for the...