Incisive Middle East News Analysis
"A Closer Look"
I start today by recommending an article, "Can Obama recognize the 'Nakba' nakba," by Gil Troy:
"President Barack Obama came to town riding on a series of assumptions about the Middle East. But...
Weekly Commentary: Israeli doves failed mission – apologists for the Palestinians instead of defenders...
http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=53460
Dr. Aaron Lerner Date: 18 August 2011
A reminder from the past:
"... WHAT if they cheat? What if they take whatever we give them and demand even more, still exercising violence and terror? Within the...
Obama Campaign Downplays Syria, Soft-Pedals Iran
http://freebeacon.com/obama-campaign-downplays-syria-soft-peddles-iran/
Former Obama administration officials were tightlipped about the escalating violence in Syria and declared that there is “time and space” to negotiate with Iran over its nuclear program during a press call organized by...
The Role of Hamas in the Formation of Global Jihadi Networks in Sinai
http://jcpa.org/article/the-role-of-hamas-in-the-formation-of-global-jihadi-networks-in-sinai/
Vol. 12, No. 18
After the Rafah attack, it was noticeable that the Egyptian government refrained from condemning the terrorists’ plan to carry out a mass-casualty attack in Israel. Indeed, senior Muslim Brotherhood figures pointed...
Radical and Moderate Palestinians
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3492/radical-moderate-palestinians
When Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas returned from New York to Ramallah and told the Palestinians that he obtained UN recognition of a Palestinian state within the pre-1967 lines -- namely, the West Bank,...
Watch: Gaza kids simulate rocket launch
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4319035,00.html
A generation comes of age: A video posted on social networks shows a group of Palestinian kids in Gaza simulating the firing of mortar shells at Israeli communities.
Four kids are seen walking in a...
Hagel-chaired think tank predicts Iran will be ‘natural partner’ for U.S.
http://www.jns.org/news-briefs/2013/1/10/hagel-chaired-think-tank-predicts-iran-will-be-natural-partn.html
(JNS.org) The Atlantic Council, a think tank chaired by defense secretary nominee Chuck Hagel which last month published a column titled “Israel’s Apartheid Policy,” during the same month predicted that Iran “should be viewed...
UN Human Rights Council and NGO Allies Produce Another Politicized Report
http://www.ngo-monitor.org/article/un_human_rights_council_
and_ngo_allies_produce_another_politicized_report
On January 31, 2013, the UN Human Rights Council Fact-Finding Mission on Israeli Settlements published a report accusing Israel of gross “violations of human rights law.” The publication includes a scenario in which the...
Silence of the lambs
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4377148,00.html
The buds of peace are blossoming again, and, as always, they are being irrigated with Jewish blood. Eviatar Borovsky joined more than 1,500 "victims of peace" since Oslo - a huge political experiment with...
Understanding the Turkish Demonstrations
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3756/turkish-demonstrations
Turkey, although nominally part of the West, is in most ways culturally closer to the Middle East. Turks live with pent-up grievances -- as do we all -- but with virtually no way to...