Concerning Gershon Baskin’s gestures to Abbas if he becomes

In his article, “Encountering Peace: The challenge of statesmanship” http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=287949 one wonders why Gershon Baskin in his prime ministership will not ask Abbas to cease and desist from the consistent virulent message that Abbas...

Obama’s Middle East Policies: a Data Base

Obama's Middle East Policies: a Data Base http://tinyurl.com/czk4qtx

Israel and U.S. on a Collision Course?

Some 57 percent of Israeli Jews preferred Romney, only 22% Obama (in my sector of American Israelis it was even more lopsided, a full 85% having cast absentee ballots for the challenger, only...

Catherine Ashton and the facts about Pisqat Ze’ev and Ramot

http://missingpeace.eu/en/2012/11/catherine-ashton-and-the-facts-about-pisqat-zeev-and-ramot/ On Thursday EU high commissioner Catherine Ashton issued a statement in which she condemned the issuing of tenders for some 1200 new housing units in the Jerusalem neighborhoods of Pisqat Ze’ev and Ramot. Ashton labeled...

Obama Blocks Israeli Invasion of Gaza

Western diplomats said Obama has been on the telephone with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu nearly every day amid the war between Israel and the Gaza Strip. They said Obama has urged Netanyahu not to...

Suit against State Dept, filed by US citizens in Israel whose loved one were...

Israeli-Americans sue Clinton over PA aid money Group claims State Department ignored transparency requirements attached to US aid to Palestinians, allowed money to fund terrorist organizations Adi Gold Dual US-Israeli citizens filed a lawsuit against Hillary Clinton...

Gaza’s tunnels rebound from Israeli offensive

RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) - Rafah's biggest industry is back in business: Gazans are rebuilding the network of underground smuggling tunnels crisscrossing the Egyptian border that were pummeled in a recent Israeli offensive, restoring...

What Is Behind Salam Fayyad’s Call for “Economic Intifada”?

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3508/economic-intifada Salam Fayyad, the prime minister of the Palestinian Authority, this week called for an economic intifada against Israel. Fayyad, whose government is facing a severe financial crisis, wants Palestinians to boycott all Israeli goods in...

Converging Toward Hamas

http://www.jewishpolicycenter.org/3764/converging-toward-hamas There are many points of disagreement between Fatah and Hamas; so many that they fought an ugly civil war in 2007, leaving Hamas in control of Gaza and Fatah in control of the West...

Hamastine: A Present from the U.N. to Khaled Mashaal

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3513/hamas-palestine-un In a field near the Islamic University -- where PhD theses are written on topics such as "The role of the Muslim mother in preparing her sons to be shaheeds of the resistance"...