Syria

The retirement of Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Moshe Ya'alon ushers an Israeli doctrine that plays down the Palestinian insurgency and envisions air power as the leading element against ground threats Israeli defense sources as...

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...

http://jcpa.org/article/the-role-iranian-security-forces-syrian-bloodshed-2/ Amid the intensifying crisis in Syria, which in recent weeks has seen massacres of the civilian population in various parts of the country, Iranian military, propaganda, and economic assistance keeps flowing in, and its...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-02/middle-east-mess-isn-t-about-settlements-.html In an interview with Charles Gati in Politico Magazine, Zbigniew Brzezinski, who served as national security adviser to Jimmy Carter, proves once again that he is a man of profound religious faith. He worships...

http://www.arlenefromisrael.info/current-postings/ "Moadim L'Simcha" (times of joy) is the traditional greeting for the intermediate days of Sukkot. And, yes, I've heard it many time these past few days. Personally, I have been finding it to be...

"The Palestinians cannot be blamed for the Israeli government's erroneous decision to initiate a cease fire as the campaign against the Qassams was beginning to succeed." "Egypt, a realist player par excellence, has turned a...

U.S.Egypt and Syria push for deployment of Arab armies in Gaza Strip Egypt, Syria increase pressure on Hamas to seal agreement with Fatah By Akiva Eldar Haaretz Last update - 01:12 16/06/2009 www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1093222.html Egypt and Syria have...

www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/754136.html A day before the current government was sworn in, on April 17, former Knesset member Uzi Landau found out he has prostate cancer. This grave news came on top of the Likud defeat in...

The big news here in Israel has to do with winter, all right. But most definitely not the Islamic sort (which I'll get to below). We've been hit with severe weather. In Jerusalem, it started...

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=8151 Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has heard about the latest videotape by al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri, in which Zawahri calls Abbas a "traitor who is selling out Palestine," and has gotten cold feet. But even...