What the Iranian People “Really Think”… and How to Help Them

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3226/iranian-people We should be extremely suspicious of public opinion surveys that purport to reveal what Iranians -- or anyone else in totalitarian countries -- "really think." They are not going to speak openly to anyone...

Missile fire on Tel Aviv will unleash unprecedented Israeli response

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=5271 Former intelligence chief Amos Yadlin says Israel is under threat of only about 1,000 "effective missiles." • When missiles start falling on Tel Aviv Israel's legitimacy will drastically increase, as will our ability to...

WJC ANALYSIS – Is the war in Syria undermining the Palestinian claim to the...

http://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/news/12161/wjc_analysis_is_the_war_in_syria_undermining_the_palestinian_claim_to_the_right_of_return _ The fate of the Assad regime in Syria has been the main focus of media attention in recent months. Yet, another crisis has quietly developed on the sidelines of the Syrian calamity which...

UNRWA & the Right of Return

http://www.romirowsky.com/12055/unrwa-the-right-of-return Chair: Good evening everyone. I am Louise Ellman MP, and on behalf of the Henry Jackson Society, I would like to welcome you to this meeting here in the House of Commons. I would...

Mordechai Kedar: The Arab World on the Precipice

http://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/analysis/dr-mordechai-kedar/mordechai-kedar-the-arab-world-on-the-precipice/2012/07/30/0/ Although I do not generally do so, I will open with an Arabic joke, because in the Arab world (and perhaps in other places as well) people often use humor to speak the truth...

Thank Heaven (and Israel) that Syria’s Assad Doesn’t Have Nukes

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alan-elsner/thank-heaven-and-israel_b_1719452.html As the death toll mounts in Syria and the country slides deeper into civil war, the world should be thankful that the Assad regime never succeeded in developing nuclear weapons -- which almost happened...

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,”...

Chemical weapons and missiles reaching Hezbollah: Israel’s

The eyes of the IDF Intelligence Branch are on Damascus, for three reasons. The first involves the possible flow of chemical and biological weapons out of Syria into Hezbollah’s hands in Lebanon. The second is if...

Syrian nightmare for Israel

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4260723,00.html Intelligence information collected and analyzed by the CIA shows that Israel has many causes for concern about the day after Assad. It turns out that there is a fundamental gap between what the White...

Nasrallah to place Hezbollah at al-Assad’s disposal – Report

http://www.asharq-e.com/news.asp?section=1&id=30479 Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat- A report in Lebanon’s “al-Joumhouria” newspaper revealed that “following the confirmed assassination of four Syrian officers, Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah contacted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, offering his condolences and enquiring about...