Syria

As this is being written, in late August 2006, news wires around the world are running a story that Machmud Abbas, head of the Palestinian Authority, has launched a new peace initiative with Israel. However,...

http://www.jinsa.org/fellowship-program/jinsa-fellows/toxic-brew-sinai To grasp how badly the security situation in Sinai has deteriorated, one fact suffices: Israel now receives as many intelligence warnings about Sinai-based terror plots as it does about terror from Gaza. This, obviously, is...

http://blog.unwatch.org/index.php/2014/06/18/un-elevates-syria-business-as-usual/ Mr. President, what the Commission of Inquiry has just described is a living hell. Faced with continuing reports of Syria’s mass murder, torture, rape, and gassing of civilians by chemical weapons, how is the...

http://www.asharq-e.com/news.asp?section=1&id=30479 Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat- A report in Lebanon’s “al-Joumhouria” newspaper revealed that “following the confirmed assassination of four Syrian officers, Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah contacted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, offering his condolences and enquiring about...

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/10516 There is no shortage of claims about alleged Israeli human rights violations in Judea and Samaria, the so called 'West Bank'. Most of these claims originate from Palestinian sources and NGO’s and are part of...

http://www.redstate.com/dhorowitz3/2011/07/06/the-palestinian-accountability-act/ One of the more intractable components of our foreign policy dating back to the Clinton years has been the obsession of creating a Palestinian state. The career egghead diplomats in the State Department believed...

"If anyone deserves to be given a chance, this is the guy." So declared Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, referring to PA Chair Mahmoud Abbas (aka Abu Mazen), in an address just this past...

Interviewee: Michael Young, Opinion Editor, Daily StarInterviewer: Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting EditorJune 5, 2014http://www.cfr.org/syria/iran-gains-assad-victory/p33064 With Syrian president Bashar al-Assad claiming a sweeping electoral victory, one party set to gain in influence is Iran, says Lebanon-based expert...

http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2013/08/27/fed-up-saudis-look-to-russia-for-help-in-syria/ Talk about a cry for help. The Saudis have apparently judged President Obama to be rudderless in his Middle East policies, judging by their recent diplomatic moves toward Russia: They appear to have plied...

http://rubinreports.blogspot.co.il/2013/08/by-barry-rubin-in-1848-new-communist.html In 1848, the new Communist movement issued a manifesto. It began with the opening line: “A specter is haunting Europe-the specter of Communism.” For our purposes today, this threat might be reworded as: “A specter is...