An action plan for Syria
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/opinion/op-ed/action+plan+Syria/7129357/story.html
Aleppo - Syria’s largest city, its commercial capital and an ancient heritage site - has been under relentless assault for close to a month.
The siege has followed what has been called “Assad’s pattern of...
Fayyad “ready to resign”
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=517945
RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad on Thursday announced he would resign if that was the will of the people, amid growing protests across the West Bank over the rising cost...
Arab Spring investor excitement fizzles out amid anti-U.S. backlash
http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/09/18/238766.html
Only a short while ago, Arab Spring economies were fluttering their eyelashes at global investors considering opportunities in the new democracies.
Foreign investment, international aid agreements and other economic stimuli to plump up central banks...
The Syrian Crisis and the Saudi-Iranian Rivalry
Dr. Benedetta Berti is a research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies, a lecturer at Tel Aviv University, a Young Atlanticist at the Atlantic Council, and the coauthor of Hamas and Hezbollah:...
In Memory of Daniel Inouye: The US Senator who Registered to Sell Israel Bonds...
http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=3180&sec=2
&title=In_Memory_of_Daniel_Inouye:_The_US_Senator_who_Registered
_to_Sell_Israel_Bonds_without_Commission_in_1948
As a journalist in Israel for the past 26 years, I have met hundreds of polticians from around the world who visit Israel and laud the Jewish state with superlatives of support.
There is only...
Weekly Commentary: JCPA poll shows Israelis do not think pigs can fly
http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=59472
Date: 20 December 2012
Typical polls of the Israeli public ask respondents if they would be willing to make concession "x" in exchange for peace.
The problem is, of course, that concession "x" isn't in exchange...
The Useful Myth that Obama Now Likes Israel
http://rubinreports.blogspot.co.il/2012/12/the-useful-myth-that-obama-now-likes.html
Reality, especially in 2012, is very hard to face. So many hopes dashed; so many bad things happening. So people can be forgiven for taking refuge in wishful thinking. Sometimes, not telling the truth...
State Department Legitimizes Terror
http://www.mythsandfacts.org/article_view.asp?articleID=253
Update:
To whom did the Obama administration grant permission to fly the Palestinian Liberation Organization flag in Washington D.C.?
The answer: Palestinian Arabs - A society whose overwhelming majority nurtures a blind hatred of Israel,...
A farewell to the Negev?
http://www.michaelfreund.org/12889/negev-beduin
This past Sunday, the largest act of organized theft in the Jewish state's history took place.
And the perpetrator was none other than the government of Israel.
At its first session since last week's elections, the...
RAJOUB LET THE CAT OUT OF THE BAG
This week the Lebanese television news station Al-Mayadeen broadcast an interview it held with Jibril Rajoub earlier this month. Rajoub, it should be recalled, is one of the big darlings of the Israeli “peace...