Romney vs. Obama vis-à-vis Israel

http://www.danielpipes.org/11929/romney-obama-israel "President Obama has thrown allies like Israel under the bus." That's what Mitt Romney, Republican candidate for president, said in the high-profile speech accepting his party's nomination last week, repeating a slang phrase for...

IMRA asks: Is Carter Center Challenging the Haifa Court statement that Rachel Corrie died...

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=58088 From: Dr. Aaron Lerner Sent: Friday, August 31, 2012 2:57 PM To: DHAKES@emory.edu Subject: Is Carter Center Challenging the Haifa Court's statement that Rachel Corrie died during operation that did not involve the demolition of houses? Dear Deborah...

Gaza tunnel trade: Matter of life and death for Hamas

http://www.asharq-e.com/news.asp?section=1&id=30885 Ramallah, Asharq Al-Awsat - The hundreds of underground tunnels that connect the Gaza Strip and Egypt have served as a means of smuggling banned goods into the occupied territories over the past 5 years...

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...

Qassam rocket strikes Afflalo family in Sderot for the second time

http://sderotmedia.org.il/bin/content.cgi?ID=929&q=3 Meeting with Limor Afflalo Sunday morning the 2nd of September, after her family home was hit on Friday at five-fifty in the morning on August 31st, sent me back five years. Limor describing the Qassam...

Observation: Just in time for Democratic Convention “” Israel makes do list for Obama...

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=58130 Observation: Just in time for Democratic Convention - Israel makes do list for Obama clear Dr. Aaron Lerner Date: 4 September 2012 The timing could not be better. For months friends of Israel in the United States...

Morsi’s Potential Counterweight INSS Insight No. 367,

http://www.inss.org.il/publications.php?cat=21&incat=&read=9998 In retrospect, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi’s inauguration speech at Cairo University, particularly his oath of allegiance to the military, was misleading. Morsi affirmed: "I pledge to God that I will preserve this institution ...

A Strategy for Making Peace with the Palestinians

http://www.biu.ac.il/SOC/besa/docs/perspectives179.pdf BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 179, September 4, 2012 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Israel will not be able to make peace with the Palestinians until the Palestinian community gives up its goal of destroying Israel. The Palestinians...

HOW RACHEL CORRIE’S DEATH WAS MISREPORTED: A TALE OF TWO PICTURES

Reprinted from 2003. Published in Makor Rishon and in the Jerusalem Post (2003). A news story which shocked the world this week dealt with the crushing of American citizen Rachel Corrie by an IDF bulldozer,...

Egypt, Hamas devise plan to secure borders, says report

http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/egypt-hamas-devise-plan-secure-borders-says-report Egyptian officials and senior figures in the Hamas movement, which controls the Gaza Strip, have devised plans to preempt any attacks similar to the 5 August attack in Rafah which killed 16 Egyptian border...