Upgrading the Palestinian Observer Mission at the UN General Assembly to a Non-Member State:...
After having failed to obtain full UN membership for a Palestinian state at the UN Security Council in 2011, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) announced during his UN address on September 27,...
Powder Keg in Gaza
http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/powder-keg-in-gaza
The violent blows exchanged between Israel and armed Islamist groups in Gaza over the past few weeks mark a dangerous shift. The pattern of occasional clashes established after Israel's 2008-2009 Operation Cast Lead has...
The Chinese Initiative on Syria: Beyond the Immediate Crisis
http://www.inss.org.il/publications.php?cat=21&incat=&read=10555
On October 31, 2012, China deviated from its traditional posture of shunning involvement in Middle East politics, and announced a four-step program to resolve the crisis in Syria. The initiative, however, does not include...
The Palestinian Conflict with Israel is Not the Core of the Middle East Conflict
http://www.jinsa.org/fellowship-program/evelyn-gordon/palestinian-conflict-israel-not-core-middle-east-conflict#.UKHaubJmTpw
As Syria's civil war drags on, it is increasingly destabilizing its neighbors. First, hundreds of thousands of refugees poured over their borders; now, violence has as well. Turkey and Syria have repeatedly exchanged deadly...
U.S. to Legitimize U.N. Human Rights Council for Three More Years
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/333240/us-legitimize-un-human-rights-council-three-more-years-anne-bayefsky
The Obama administration was reelected today for a second three-year term to the U.N.’s top human-rights body, the Human Rights Council, with substantially fewer votes than human-rights heavyweights United Arab Emirates, Kazakhstan, Côte d’Ivoire,...
100 Hamas Rockets Targeting Israeli Schoolchildren
http://sderotmedia.org.il/bin/content.cgi?ID=949&q=3
Photos: Direct hit in Netivut home, Monday morning 12.11.12, later on a direct hit in a ceramics factory in Netivot. Daniel Hagbi/Sderot Media Center
It was a daunting, dismal weekend for Israel’s south, particularly for...
Fill your sandbags
I’d like to believe that President Barack Obama's re-election means nothing significant for U.S.-Israel relations, since “all Democratic and Republican presidents over the past four decades have been solidly pro-Israel” - as Deputy Prime...
Israel and U.S. on a Collision Course?
Some 57 percent of Israeli Jews preferred Romney, only 22% Obama (in my sector of American Israelis it was even more lopsided, a full 85% having cast absentee ballots for the challenger, only...
Washington’s Failure to Rein in UNRWA
General Assembly resolution 194 of December 11, 1948, offers two options, repatriation and resettlement, to achieve the reintegration of the Palestinian Arab refugees "into the economic life of the Near East." Yet,...
UNRWA’s Self-serving Agenda
Dr Uri Resnick currently serves as the Deputy Consul General for the Israel Embassy in Los Angeles. Previously, Dr. Resnick previously served as the head of the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs Division as...