The Hopelessness of Victory

http://rubinreports.blogspot.co.il/2014/01/the-hopelessness-of-victory.html The Obama administration is engaging in over a dozen failed operations in the Middle East, and reason shows just why they're failing: The Islamist philosophy is totally different from theirs. The Islamists are indifferent...

Editor’s Report : The Night I slept with Bed Bugs for Peace

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=4010&sec=1&title=Editor%27s_Report_:_The_Night_I_slept_with_Bed_Bugs_for_Peace In the summer of 2009 as a journalist I attended a peace conference for Israelis and Palestinians put on by IPCRI (Israel-Palestine Centre for Research and Information) at Talitha Kumi Evangelical Lutheran School, above...

Is John Kerry Behind European Boycotts of Israel?

http://daledamos.blogspot.co.il/2014/01/arlene-kushner-is-john-kerry-behind.html A Long, Hard Struggle I’m encountering a lot of anger here in Israel, and the depression that often follows. Pit-of-the-stomach anxiety, too. How could it be otherwise? Kerry took off on Monday but plans to be...

Al Qaida Shatters U.S. Victory Claim

Leading U.S. analysts, including former military commanders, acknowledged that Al Qaida defied the assessment of the intelligence community and President Barack Obama. In early 2013, Obama announced that AlQaida was declining and a shadow...

Egypt Reports End Of Gaza Tunnels

Egypt's military has reported the virtual destruction of the once-massive smuggling tunnel network to the Gaza Strip. Security sources said the Egyptian Army has destroyed 97 percent of the tunnels that connect the Sinai Peninsula...

P.A. Official Khatib Says Any Pal. Who Murders a Jew, Yesterday, Today, or Tomorrow,...

http://zoa.org/2014/01/10227937-p-a-official-khatib-says-any-pal-who-murders-a-jew-yesterday-today-or-tomorrow-must-be-released/ he Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has pointed to a recent declaration by a senior Palestinian Authority (PA) official, Ashraf Khatib, that Israel must free all jailed Palestinian terrorists, even if they have murdered...

The Arab League and peace, after 68 years

http://www.meforum.org/3715/arab-league-peace The disconnect between the past and the present in the Middle East is growing fast. Consider the anachronism called the Arab League. In December, after an "emergency meeting" called by Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, Arab...

The Modern Language Association (MLA) ignores word pollution

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/The-Modern-Language-Association-MLA-ignores-word-pollution-337651 The Modern Language Association (MLA) whose brief is words, sentences, paragraphs, stories and narratives, has a special responsibility to lead the way in examining the effects of exposure to cradle-to-grave incitement -the abuse of...

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...

The Jordan Valley: Israel’s security belt

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=6929 U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is once again in town trying to reach a framework agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. One of the issues of dispute is the fate of the...