The Chinese Initiative on Syria: Beyond the Immediate Crisis

http://www.inss.org.il/publications.php?cat=21&incat=&read=10555 On October 31, 2012, China deviated from its traditional posture of shunning involvement in Middle East politics, and announced a four-step program to resolve the crisis in Syria. The initiative, however, does not include...

The Palestinian Conflict with Israel is Not the Core of the Middle East Conflict

http://www.jinsa.org/fellowship-program/evelyn-gordon/palestinian-conflict-israel-not-core-middle-east-conflict#.UKHaubJmTpw As Syria's civil war drags on, it is increasingly destabilizing its neighbors. First, hundreds of thousands of refugees poured over their borders; now, violence has as well. Turkey and Syria have repeatedly exchanged deadly...

Washington’s Failure to Rein in UNRWA

General Assembly resolution 194 of December 11, 1948, offers two options, repatriation and resettlement, to achieve the reintegration of the Palestinian Arab refugees "into the economic life of the Near East." Yet,...

Where Would Hezbollah Be Without the EU?

The EU has been here before. During the same period they came up with their false wall-of-separation within Hezbollah, they they did the same thing with Hamas. The fiction disappeared in Europe because it...

Anti-Semitism in Newton (MA) Schools

Below is my account of the developing scandal at the Newton public schools. For months a group of Jewish parents and community members has asked the school board for copies of the curriculum, texts...

Election Letter to my American Friends

Sherwin@atid-edi.com Sherwin Pomerantz, a 29 year resident of Israel. is President of Atid-EDI Ltd., a Jerusalem-based economic development consulting firm and a former National President of the Association of Americans and Canadians in Israel My fellow...

Refugee Lawyer David Matas: UNWRA, Palestinian and Jewish Refugees :There are No International Instruments...

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=2899&sec=1&title=Refugee_Lawyer_David_Matas:_UNWRA,_Palestinian__and_Jewish_Refugees_:There_are_No_International_Instruments_which_Give_Palestinians_A_Right_of_Return (The following is an excerpt of Remarks prepared for a delivery to a conference on Justice for Jews from Arab countries, Jerusalem, Israel, 10 September 2012) There is a troubling pattern of claimed Palestinian rights...

King Abdullah gets Rosh Hashana Gift: Signs Deal with Canadian Firm to Produce Oil...

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=2886&sec=2&title=King_Abdullah_gets_Rosh_Hashana_Gift:_Signs_Deal_with_Canadian_Firm_to_Produce_Oil_Shale:_Will_this_help_Stabilize_his_Kingdom It must be a tad frightening for King Abdullah to sit on his throne and look out at the developments that are englfing him in the Middle East. With neighboring Syria in a state...

Israel Worried Over Iranian Navy

The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies asserted that Israel has been closely following the expansion of the Iranian Navy and extension of its operations. In a report, the center said Israel was concerned over...

Obama’s Greatest Foreign Policy Error

http://sultanknish.blogspot.co.il/2012/10/obamas-greatest-foreign-policy-error.html Obama's greatest Foreign Policy error was the same one that had been made by Bush and by numerous past administrations. The error was that the problem was not Islam, but Islamic violence. It was...