Israel Resource Review

http://rubinreports.blogspot.co.il/2013/08/by-barry-rubin-in-1848-new-communist.html In 1848, the new Communist movement issued a manifesto. It began with the opening line: “A specter is haunting Europe-the specter of Communism.” For our purposes today, this threat might be reworded as: “A specter is...

http://www.meforum.org/3588/morsi-detained-bloodbath-egypt As Egypt explodes in what could be civil war, with a reported death toll of at least 628 dead and rising in clashes between security forces and Islamists that began August 14, many are...

http://www.fiammanirenstein.com/articoli.asp?Categoria=5&Id=3263 IlGiornale, August 20, 2013 The Middle East can come up with just about anything, but here's one of the most outlandish: Hosni Mubarak, the former Egyptian dictator, ousted in February 2011 in a massive popular...

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/13713#.UhKXh9JurTo The media in Israel on August 18 devoted a day of news stories to the abuse of a “stun gun”, something like an electric cattle prod and known as a taser gun, in the...

http://networkedblogs.com/OdXVF What is the State Department's attitude to governments freeing prisoners who have murdered US citizens? The answer might surprise you. The question is neither rhetorical nor theoretical in our part of the world. There have...

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/08/19/america-mideast-policies-need-reality-and-morality-check/ On June 4, 2009, President Barack Obama made his historic "New Beginning" speech in Cairo, boldly seeking to harken a new day for the U.S. and the Muslim world. But all the high hopes...

http://www.meforum.org/3584/syria-arms As the Syrian civil war rages on with no end in sight, many advocates of U.S. intervention are claiming that an infusion of Western arms to carefully vetted rebel factions will help bring about...

http://www.meforum.org/3583/america-problems-middle-east It's 2015, and there is a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza. The Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood (Hamas), financed by Iran, wins an election on a platform demanding the expulsion...

http://calevbenyefuneh.blogspot.co.il/2013/08/when-media-promotes-rot-of-return.html Pass the tissues. The Christian Science Monitor breaks out the violins for Palestinian refugees who want to return to the villages they fled years ago. If you’re looking for intelligent discourse on the matter, you’ll...

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3939/palestinians-peace-negotiators At the request of the Palestinian Authority leadership, the first round of peace talks with Israel, which was launched in Jerusalem on August 14, was held away from the media spotlight. The Palestinian Authority leadership...