American officials: NEXT HIZBULLAH WAR EXPECTED TO BE FIERCER

The next round of Israel's confrontation with Hizbullah was expected to be more fierce than the 33-day war concluded in August. U.S. military analysts expect Israeli ground forces to move rapidly to destroy Hizbullah's short-range...

Rethinking Palestine 2012

http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/10/rethinking_palestine_2012.html In 2011, Mahmoud Abbas, head of the Palestinian Authority (PA), failed to win U.N. acceptance of Palestine as an independent state1. This year, he lowered the bar to upgraded status within the U.N. In...

Why not an EU-led trusteeship?

From the Israeli perspective, attempts to find a way out of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict have been stymied by a conceptual contradiction never faced before. On the one hand, there is a broad consensus among the...

Saudi Initiative – based on flooding Israel with Arab refugees from 1948 – along...

THERE IS AN ILLUSION, THAT THE "SAUDI INITIATIVE" IS BASED ON ISRAEL'S WITHDRAWAL TO THE 1967 LINES. Groups associated with Peace Now, the Peres Center for Peace, the Council for Peace and Security, the Israel...

Secrets and missiles

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4404795,00.html Something is not right in the relationship of trust between Israel and the United States. It's illogical and unforgivable that in such an intimate relationship - as it is known to us, at least...

Hezbollah’s desperate recruiting in the Bekaa

With a shortage of manpower, Hezbollah is trying to recruit young men from the Bekaa Valley to fight in Syria by tempting impressionable young men with cash. Aïsha, a veiled woman in her early 60s,...

US Authorizes Financial Support For the Free Syrian Army

http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2012/al-monitor/us-authorizes-financial-support.html The waiver was received from the Treasury Department Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) last week, Brian Sayers, of the Syrian Support Group, told Al- Monitor in an interview Friday. “The OFAC decision is huge,”...

Incisive Commentary from Arlene Kushner

Posting: November 11, 2007 "Protest" I am in a holding pattern on personal matters. I cannot apologize for putting first things first -- for what matters more than attending to family when a new life is...

The impotence of foreign forces

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=15667 On the morning of March 14, 2006, an agreement hatched by the United States and a number of European countries and which sprang from Israeli jails the killers of former minister Rehavam Ze'evi and...

How to Understand Islamism: Read What its Leaders Really Say

http://www.gloria-center.org/2013/06/how-to-understand-islamism-read-what-its-leaders-really-say/ To read Yusuf al-Qaradawi’s 1984 book, Islamic Education and Hasan al-Bana, is to get an Islamic education. Nobody should be allowed to talk about Islam or political Islamism without having read this or similar...