Obama Distances Himself From Malley

The Obama transition team is working to distance itself from a controversial negotiator who has been negotiating with Israel's enemies. Robert Malley, Middle East director of the International Crisis Group, a think tank that has...

From Israel: Getting Hotter

The Security Cabinet today approved attacks against Islamic Jihad and Hamas commanders responsible for the current Kassam escalation. There will be both air and ground operations, with attacks on arms supplies as well. And, indeed,...

Testimony presented to: Hearing of the Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia...

February 14, 2007 2172 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C. Chaired By: Representative Gary L. Ackerman (D-NY) Witnesses: David Makovsky, Director, Project on the Middle East Peace Process, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy; Martin S. Indyk, Director, Saban...

King Abdallah Compliments President Obama, Sort Of?

July 2, 2010 http://www.gloria-center.org/blog/2010/07/king-abdallah-compliments-president-obama According to the press pool reporter for the meeting between King Abdallah of Saudi Arabia and President Barack H. Obama of the United States, who wrote it just after stepping out of...

Interview with Egyptian Acting Ambassador to Israel

When they say that the war in our region is bad for tourism, they don't mean the Intifada's negative effect on India. And still, for over a year, there are some officials in the...

PIPES: Stay out of Syria

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/aug/20/stay-out-of-syria/ Bashar Assad ’s wretched presence in the presidential palace of Damascus may, contrary to Western assumptions, do more good than harm. His murderous, terroristic and pro-Tehran regime is nonideological and relatively secular; it staves...

EDITORIAL: I AGREE WITH WEINBERG: BUBBLES HAVE BEEN BURST

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=3083&sec=2&title=I_AGREE_WITH_WEINBERG:_BUBBLES_HAVE_BEEN_BURST David. Weinberg, who moved to Israel from Toronto and directs the Israel office of the Center for Israel and Jewish Affairs has written a good article in Yisrael Hayom, the daily paper sponsored by...

The Dangers of Syria’s Bio-Warfare Complex Should Assad Fall: An Interview with Dr. Jill...

http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/130225/sec_id/130225 The control of Syria’s unconventional chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction are of vital concern in a troubled Middle East should the Assad regime fall to Sunni supremacist opposition forces. An Algemeiner article...

Op-Ed: Hamas’ Dissolution Indispensable for Israel’s Security

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/15626#.VA2l3sKSySo In strategic context, nothing less than a large-scale 'invasion' to finish Hamas off and rid Gaza of a terrorist regime is going to ensure security for Israel. The hard facts speak for themselves: a deeply...

Palestinians Set Up Joint Security

Palestinian sources said the militias were working to establish a force that would protect residents of 11 UNRWA Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon. They said the joint force would be overseen by a unified...