Video Games and Cigarettes: Syria’s Disneyland for Jihadists

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/foreign-jihadists-in-syria-favor-liberal-transit-towns-over-front-a-910092.html Atmeh looks like the set for a movie about al-Qaida. New arrivals pulling suitcases on wheels search for their emirs, Africans and Asians can be seen on the village streets, and long-haired men dressed...

France’s Peace Process Innovation

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2013/11/19/frances-peace-process-innovation/ For the second time in two weeks, France has proven itself the most serious foreign-policy player the West currently has. First, it thwarted an abysmal nuclear deal with Iran. Now, it’s come up with...

Snow and subserviance

http://popular-resistance.blogspot.com/2013/12/snow-and-subserviance.html It is snowing here in Palestine. My visitors from Gaza (a child being treated and his father) wish to go back to their family even though their wife tells us that they have no...

Local Lawmakers: Show Me How the Money Is Spent!

http://www.jewishexponent.com/local-lawmakers-show-me-how-the-money-is-spent Four local Republican mem­bers of Congress have been pressing the U.S. State Department over American funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, the controversial organization that assists Palestinian refugees and their des­cendants. U.S....

The unique tragedy of the Palestinian refugees

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/news/middle-east/2013/12/19/The-unique-tragedy-of-the-Palestinian-refugees-.html The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) is tasked with assisting Palestinian refugees. The films, pictures, slides and prints the organization has collected on the plight of the refugees will now be displayed...

Egyptian government seizes Brotherhood assets

http://www.aawsat.net/2014/01/article55326297 Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat-Government sources told Asharq Al-Awsat on Tuesday that Egyptian authorities had ordered the seizure of the assets of hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood members because it suspected them of “funding terrorism.” Dr Hisham Kamal,...

Israel Government Report on Palestinian Incitement

http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=62791 Israel Government Report on Palestinian IncitementFor the report as video:http://youtu.be/odn0dFEsOv4 To download the power point report:http://www.pmo.gov.il/English/MediaCenter/Spokesman/Documents/incitement.ppsx

When is Incitement “Incitement ?

http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/01/07/when-is-incitement-incitement/ Soon after Adolph S. Ochs purchased The New York Times in 1896, he pledged “to write intelligent discussion from all shades of opinion.” His firm commitment was bolstered with a new motto for the...

Palestinian foreign minister: We will never recognize Jewish character of Israel

http://www.aawsat.net/2014/01/article55327533 Paris, Asharq Al-Awsat-Unsurprisingly, the latest round of talks between Israel and Palestine has been no less difficult than previous ones, with US Secretary of State John Kerry warning shortly before the talks began last...

U.S. Lifts Ban on Immigrants With Links to Terrorism

http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/2014/02/18/u-s-lifts-ban-on-immigrants-with-links-to-terrorism/ Muslim Brotherhood affiliates scored a major victory in their efforts to degrade U.S. national security measures in early February 2014 when the Obama administration decided to override by fiat portions of the U.S. Criminal...