Official PA radio news – The P.B.C. VOP (Voice of Palestine) Radio: February 3-4

Special Item - PA Announcement - Saturday Night, February 3, 2001 9:10 p.m. "An official spokesman for the Ministry of Information announced that what has been published in the newspapers and in the media regarding...

Syrian refugees currently costing Jordan $ 2.1 billion: Momani……………. correction

http://www.petra.gov.jo/Public_News/Nws_NewsDetails.aspx?lang=2&site_id=1&NewsID=132561&CatID=13 Amman, Dec. 5 (Petra) - The cost of hosting Syrian refugees that Jordan’s economy has been bearing since the beginning of 2013 has reached $ 2.1 billion, State Minister of Media Affairs and Government...

Weekly Commentary: Caveat emptor: policy recommendations of Israeli security officials

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=62523 It is important to put the policy recommendations of Israeli security officials - and former officials - in context. Security officials may have a good handle on the gizmos our various enemies now possess and...

Pilgrims or Mercenaries? Iranian Hostages Freed by Free Syrian Army

http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/fdd-policy-brief The Free Syrian Army last week released forty seven Iranian citizens and their Syrian interpreter in exchange for 2,130 prisoners held by the Syrian government. The exchange of hostages was facilitated through the good...

Urgent NGO Appeal to End Syria’s Ramadan Massacre

http://www.unwatch.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2. aspx?c=bdKKISNqEmG&b=1330815&ct=11106989 H. E. Laura Dupuy Lasserre President, Human Rights Council United Nations Palais des Nations CH-1211 Geneva 10 Switzerland Aug. 9, 2011 Dear Madam President, We, an international coalition of non-governmental and human rights organizations, urge the UN Human Rights Council to end...

Israel’s 1967 Close Call

Six weeks after the Six Day War a U.S. - U.S.S.R. resolution concerning the peace was rejected by the Arabs, thus saving Israel from a political disaster potentially undoing the military victory. Israel's immediate post-war...

Who’s Against a Two-State Solution?

http://www.meforum.org/2689/against-two-state-solution "Two states, living side by side in peace and security." This, in the words of President Barack Obama, is the solution to the century-long conflict between Jews and Palestinian Arabs in the Middle East....

Iran Increases Aid to PFLP

http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/09/iran-pflp-gaza-palestine-syria.html GAZA CITY, Gaza - The relationship between the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and the Islamic Republic of Iran has gone from an impasse - when Iran was supporting Islamist movements...

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...

Guest post: UNRWA – Not part of the solution but part of the problem

http://anneinpt.wordpress.com/2013/10/10/guest-post-unrwa-not-part-of-the-solution-but-part-of-the-problem/ This is another guest post by Brian Goldfarb, a frequent reader and contributor to this blog. “Not part of the solution, but part of the problem” - What is? Well, if we’re talking about the...