Ben Zion Netanyahu, the Mufti and the U.S. election of 1946

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/21212/ When I as a high school student at Akiba Hebrew Academy in Philadelphia in the 1960’s, our high school history teacher, Dr. Harold Gorvine, did everything that he could to make history come alive...

Where 8,000 Rocket Launches Are Not a Casus Belli

http://www.jinsa.org/visiting-fellows/evelyn-gordon/where-8000-rocket-launches-are-not-casus-belli The most chilling comment I've seen on the mid-March surge of violence from Gaza, when terrorists fired 300 rockets at Israel in four days, was made almost three weeks earlier. The rocket fire had...

Nationalism, Social Justice, and Civil Rights: Palestinian Discourse on the Social Networks, April 2012

http://www.inss.org.il/upload/%28FILE%291335769071.pdf With a lack of consensus in the Palestinian camp on various issues and numerous obstacles to the two main political processes - the political process with Israel and internal Palestinian reconciliation - social network...

Abbas’s Police State

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/04/30/abbas_s_police_state?page=0,1 President Barack Obama's administration has loudly touted its efforts to protect peaceful activists across the globe from regimes that would oppress them. On April 26, the White House issued an executive order to stop...

Let Their People Go: Why Glorify the Quasi Enslavement of Migrant Workers ?

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=20988&preview=true May 1: The worker’s holiday. Placards distributed by Israel’s national labor federation, also known as the Histadrut, call on workers in Israel this year to march on May 1 under the banner “WE ARE...

Officials: U.S. could agree to limited Iranian uranium enrichment

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/04/washington-in-a-major-concession-obama-administration-officials-say-they-could-support-allowing-iran-to-continue-a-cruci.html WASHINGTON - In a major concession, Obama administration officials say they could support allowing Iran to continue a crucial element of its disputed nuclear program if the government in Tehran took other major steps...

Harvard Prof. Alan Dershowitz denounces BGU’s Neve Gordon (Dept of Political Science) as a...

http://isracampus.org.il/third%20level%20pages/BGU%20-%20Dershowitz%20says%20Neve%20Gordon%20Fifth-Rate%20Pseudo-Academic.htm Special Isracampus Report 29/4/2012 On April 27, 2012 the Right-leaning daily Makor Rishon ran an extensive in-depth interview with the legendary professor of law Alan Dershowitz. The interview covers two full newspaper pages in the "law...

How Egypt’s Presidential Election Will Change the Middle East and the World

http://rubinreports.blogspot.com/2012/04/how-egypts-presidential-election-will.html What might well be the most significant election in Middle East history is about to happen yet the situation and its implications are simply not understood abroad. On May 23-24, with a probable run-off...

Hizbullah Bolsters UAV unit

The Iranian-sponsored Hizbullah was said to have expanded its fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles. Israeli military sources said Hizbullah has been receiving combat and other UAVs from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. They said the...

Obama Overrides Congress in Order to Send $192 Million to Palestinian Authority

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/danieldoherty/2012/04/28/obama_ overrides_congress_in_order_to_send_192_billion_to_palestinian_authority I suspect President Obama and his underlings are really hoping this late night maneuver goes unnoticed. US President Barack Obama has lifted a ban on financial aid to the Palestinian Authority. Obama stated that the...