PM: Abbas does not seek peace
http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=3223
What's behind Abbas' new tone?
Mahmoud Abbas delivered a speech on Jan. 4, on the anniversary of the founding of Fatah, that may have marked a turning point in the relations between the Palestinian Authority...
The Role of Iranian Security Forces in the Syrian Bloodshed
http://jcpa.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Segall-VP5891.pdf
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...
News Analysis
First, a critique of an article -- "Are US Officials Understanding and Responding to the Middle Crisis? Ya Think?" -- by Barry Rubin, director of the Gloria Center.
As to that "Ya think?" Rubin explains:...
Who Will Rule Syria? A Detailed Assessment
http://pjmedia.com/barryrubin/2012/12/12/syria-obama-initiative-marks-the-beginning-of-the-end-game/
For all practical purposes, President Barack Obama has now recognized the Syrian opposition group as the government of Syria. Specifically, he called them the “legitimate representative” of the Syrian people.” The European Union did...
Phantom Nation: Inventing the “Palestinians” as the Obstacle to Peace, Volume I, II and...
Available at: http://www.amazon.com/Shai-Ben-Tekoa/e/B00H479XCI
Reviewed by Samantha Allie, Analyst, Center for Near East Policy Research, and David Bedein, Center director.
This three volume work, written by Middle East scholar Shai Ben Tekoa, provides a unique opportunity for...
UNRWA’s Problematic Educational Role in the Middle East Conflict
UNRWA's Educational Activity in the Middle East
UNRWA - the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for the Palestinian refugees in the Middle East - was established in the wake of the Arab-Israeli war of...
Official PA radio news – the P.B.C. VOP (Voice of Palestine) Radio: January 29
Summary and Analysis
In its Monday afternoon and evening broadcasts on January 29, VOP stressed remarks by Yasser Arafat at Davos (World Economic Forum) that "totally rejected" any "resettlement of refugees" and "leaving any refugees...
Kuwait Expels Thousands of Palestinians
Much has been made of the Palestinian exodus of 1948. Yet during their decades of dispersal, the Palestinians have experienced no less traumatic ordeals at the hands of their Arab brothers. As early as...
What to Do About Syria
http://www.gloria-center.org/2012/02/what-to-do-about-syria/
There is a strong case that can be made for doing nothing about the Syrian civil war, but a stronger case can be made for doing something relatively low-cost and ineffective, indeed, precisely what...
“Bill Clinton: Israel-Syria peace deal could be reached within 35 minutes”
A peace agreement between Israel and Syria could be reached within 35 minutes, former U.S. president Bill Clinton told the Lebanon-based Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper in an interview published Sunday.
Clinton said Israel and Syria were...