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...

Hamas hopeful about future with Morsy

http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/hamas-hopeful-about-future-morsy After last month's attacks in Sinai that killed 16 Egyptian security officers, questions have loomed over President Mohamed Morsy’s ability to control militancy in the peninsula, which is often held to be connected to...

The Geography of Iranian Power by Robert D. Kaplan

http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/geography-iranian-power-robert-d-kaplan Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from Robert D. Kaplan's new book, The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate , which will be...

Morsi’s just not that into Iran

http://mideast.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/08/30/morsis_just_not_that_into_iran_0 Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had high hopes for the visit to Tehran by new Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi. His trip on Thursday for the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit might have been brief -- his...

Implementation of the NPT Safeguards : Agreement and relevant provisions of Security Council resolutions...

This report of the Director General to the Board of Governors and, in parallel, to the Security Council, is on the implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement1 and relevant provisions of Security Council resolutions...