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http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4341/fatah-abbas-dictator Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has finally made peace with Hamas. But will he able to extinguish the fire that has erupted in his own backyard? Earlier this week, Abbas decided to expel five "unruly"...

http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/05/21/how-unrwa-perpetuates-the-palestinian-crisis-review/ UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, was created in 1949 after the Arabs rejected the 1947 UN Partition Plan for Palestine, and five Arab armies...

http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/05/israel-egypt-security-cooperation-netanyahu-livni-nuclear.html An Egyptian soldier stands near the Egyptian national flag and the Israeli flag at the Taba crossing between Egypt and Israel, about 430 kilometers (256 miles) northeast of Cairo, Oct. 26, 2011. (photo by...

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303749904579577892072979908 In preparation for the pope's visit this weekend, a man cleans a church courtyard in the West Bank town of Bethlehem on Thursday. Zuma Press. BETHLEHEM, West Bank-At the Church of the Nativity, triumphal banners...

Presentation by David Bedein, May 2014, in Washington and London Ten Talking Points; 1. This week, the Israeli government made history, when Israeli ambassador to the UN Ron Proser - addressed a symposium at the UN...

http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/05/15/hamas-refusing-to-buy-polio-other-vaccines-and-unrwa-doesnt-care/ UNRWA released a statement to several Arabic newspapers warning of a serious health crisis on the horizon in Gaza. There is a severe shortage of vaccines in Gaza, and those for polio, the mumps, rubella,...

http://www.arabnews.com/news/570476 A few weeks ago, many people in the Arab world heard a name, Joshua Teitelbaum, an Israeli senior fellow at the Dayan Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Goldman visiting associate professor at...

http://jcpa.org/article/palestinian-reconciliation-and-the-rising-power-of-hamas/ Vol. 14, No. 14 May 14, 2014 Fatah and Hamas are continuing to talk in an attempt to translate the reconciliation agreement, signed between the sides on April 23, 2014, into a series of operative...

http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/05/09/amnesty-researcher-admits-that-palestinian-eyewitnesses-often-lie/ Donatella Rovera, an Amnesty field investigator, wrote an interesting article about the challenges of fact finding in war situations. One of her main points is that eyewitnesses are often unreliable. For example: In Gaza, Lebanon, Libya,...

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4518128,00.html The second Newsweek article on Israel's alleged spying efforts in the US, titled "Israel’s Aggressive Spying in the US Mostly Hushed Up", embarrasses its author and sources almost more than the original piece published...