Al Qaida Dominates Much Of Syria

http://www.menewsline.com Al Qaida, despite an offensive by the regime of President Bashar Assad, has been expanding throughout Syria, a report said. A U.S. think tank asserted that Al Qaida militias were dominating large areas of Syria...

“Iran is Now Moderate” Joke

http://rubinreports.blogspot.co.il/2013/09/the-iran-is-now-moderate-joke_22.html I have never understood why anyone expected any U.S. action on Iran's nuclear program. Basically there was never any chance the U.S. would undertake any armed action or allow Israel to do so. That...

What Abbas Missed in His UN Speech

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4001/abbas-un-speech As Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was delivering his speech at the General Assembly of the United Nations last week, one of his officials in Ramallah revealed that 250,000 out of the approximately 600,000...

Obama’s Fight With Israel: This Time It’s Serious

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2013/11/obamas-fight-with-israel-99964.html America and Israel are in uncharted waters. Just eight months since President Barack Obama visited Israel on the first foreign trip of his second term in an attempt to patch things up with Prime...

Sunny with Light Missile Cover Here in Tel Aviv

http://pjmedia.com/spengler/2014/07/10/sunny-with-light-missile-cover-here-in-tel-aviv/ Sunny with light missile cover in Tel Aviv this morning. I awoke to muffled thuds in the distance, Iron Dome shooting down Syrian-made missiles launched from Gaza, according to news reports. I attended the...

Israel’s Predicament at 60

Two religiously-identified new states emerged from the shards of the British empire in the aftermath of World War II. Israel, of course, was one; the other was Pakistan. They make an interesting, if little-compared pair....

She’s not all pure: An Assessment of Tzippi Livni

While it is certainly time for Israel to once again have a woman prime minister - if only to make life uncomfortable for Shas and the other chauvinists around the cabinet table - this...

An Israeli Watershed: Strike on Syria

Summer 2008, pp. 57-62 On the morning of September 6, 2007, Israel Air Force (IAF) planes penetrated deep into Syrian airspace and attacked a nuclear facility near the town of Dayr al-Zur in the northeastern...

Missing major questions] Analysis: Netanyahu’s demilitarized state

The huge issues surrounding Netanyahu's demilitarized state are not how many and what gizmos the PA "security forces" can have. The big questions are: #1. Who decides there is a violation? It sounds like Israel would agree to...

Obama Campaign Downplays Syria, Soft-Pedals Iran

http://freebeacon.com/obama-campaign-downplays-syria-soft-peddles-iran/ Former Obama administration officials were tightlipped about the escalating violence in Syria and declared that there is “time and space” to negotiate with Iran over its nuclear program during a press call organized by...