Ending the Palestinian ‘Right of Return’
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/288231/ending-palestinian-right-return-daniel-pipes
Between 1967 and 1993, just a few hundred Palestinians from the West Bank or Gaza won the right to live in Israel by marrying Israeli Arabs (who constitute nearly one-fifth of Israel’s population) and...
Chemical Weapons Attack from Gaza: Eshkol Council Head Complains to UN Secretary General
http://sderotmedia.org.il/bin/content.cgi?ID=872&q=3
Chemical Qassam rocket fired from Hamas controlled Gaza, explodes into Eshkol Council
(Photo credit: Eshkol Council Spokesman)
Eshkol Council Complains to UN After Gaza regime fires chemical weapons at the Western Negev residents.
Haim Jelin, chairman of...
Make Representations to Benyamin Netanyahu: Will he follow up with vital issues with the...
As talks resume with the Palestinian Authority, the time has come to ask Israel PM Benyamin Netanyahu if he follows up with vital issues with the PA:
1. Will PM Netanyahu demand that the PA...
The new nexus of narcoterrorism: Hezbollah and Venezuela
http://www.fpri.org/enotes/2011/201112.neumann.narcoterrorism.html
Press stories, as well as a television documentary, over the past two months have detailed the growing cooperation between South American drug traffickers and Middle Eastern terrorists, proving that the United States continues to...
A Palestinian civil intifada
http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=1096
The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) published its December 2011 report on Monday, contending that in 2016 Jews will become a minority between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. According to the...
Israel and the European Union: A Change in Tone? INSS
http://www.inss.org.il/publications.php?cat=21&incat=&read=5873
As expected, the government of Israel’s decision to issue a tender for construction of 1,000 housing units in the West Bank and East Jerusalem elicited a response from Catherine Ashton, the EU’s High Representative...
What Would a Hamas-Fatah Agreement Mean?
http://blogs.cfr.org/abrams/2011/12/28/what-would-a-hamas-fatah-agreement-mean/
There are repeated efforts to forge a unity agreement of some sort between Hamas and Fatah, leading to a new “unity government” for the Palestinian Authority. Such a coalition was briefly in force in...
Obama administration secretly preparing options for aiding the Syrian opposition
http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/12/28/obama_administration
_secretly_preparing_options_for_aiding_the_syrian_opposition
As the violence in Syria spirals out of control, top officials in President Barack Obama's administration are quietly preparing options for how to assist the Syrian opposition, including gaming out the unlikely option of...
Arab Spring: the revolution has only just begun
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/8980784
/Arab-Spring-the-revolution-has-only-just-begun.html
This year, the certitudes of the old Middle East dissolved with unseemly haste. A regional order frozen in place since the death of Egypt’s Colonel Nasser 40 years ago finally thawed. It produced a...
Human Wrongs: The Worst of Amnesty, HRW, and others in 2011
http://www.ngo-monitor.org/article/human_wrongs_the_worst_of
_amnesty_hrw_and_others_in _
JERUSALEM - With 2011 concluding, NGO Monitor today released a list of the most outrageous and absurd NGO actions from the past year, demonstrating the political nature of NGOs involved in the Arab-Israeli...