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http://jcpa.org/hamas-attack-tunnels/ Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas prime minister, delivered a revealing speech on March 23, 2014, in which he stressed the strategic importance of the Hamas attack tunnels, which, he argued, have changed the balance of...

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4341/fatah-abbas-dictator Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has finally made peace with Hamas. But will he able to extinguish the fire that has erupted in his own backyard? Earlier this week, Abbas decided to expel five "unruly"...

http://www.stonegateinstitute.org/2862/help-gaza Who is stopping the Palestinians from turning the Gaza Strip into the Middle East's Hong Kong? Is it Israel, the Palestinians themselves or the Arab countries? In the past few weeks, Hamas Prime Minister Ismail...

Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA: An IMRA reader raised the following question regarding Dr. Mordechai Kedar's recent article (repeated below): Do you see the members of small homogenous states that have the misfortune that they are...

http://www.gloria-center.org/2013/12/a-look-at-international-survey-data-about-arab-opinion/ This article evaluates Arab public opinion with the “Arab Opinion Index” by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies (ACRPS) in Doha, Qatar. The Index covers 12 Arab countries with 85 percent...

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=62748 Saudi Arabia's Aid to Lebanon Presents Challenge for Iran Dec. 31, 2013 - 03:45AM | By AWAD MUSTAFA http://www.defensenews.com/article/20131231/DEFREG04/312310006/Saudi-Arabia-s-Aid-Lebanon-Presents-Challenge-Iran DUBAI - The $3 billion Saudi Arabian grant to the Lebanese Army to buy equipment from...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-02/middle-east-mess-isn-t-about-settlements-.html In an interview with Charles Gati in Politico Magazine, Zbigniew Brzezinski, who served as national security adviser to Jimmy Carter, proves once again that he is a man of profound religious faith. He worships...

To Begin the failure of peace is simple and obvious: The PLO leadership is bent on a two-stage plan to eliminate Israel, not a two-state plan for two peoples. Bennie Begin happens to be outside the Prime...

http://www.aawsat.net/2014/01/article55326297 Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat-Government sources told Asharq Al-Awsat on Tuesday that Egyptian authorities had ordered the seizure of the assets of hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood members because it suspected them of “funding terrorism.” Dr Hisham Kamal,...

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