“Radicalizing” the Muslim Brotherhood

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3907/muslim-brotherhood-radicalizing Following another night of violence in Cairo during which 72 people were killed, The New York Times accused the military led government of Abdul Fattah al Sisi of "radicalizing" the Muslim Brotherhood. "For all...

Do the palestinian authority and unrwa prepare palestinians for war?

4PM, Mon Sept 2 2013, at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem, Gail Winston, founder http://WinstonIsraelInsight.com, dedicated to the legacy of Emanuel Winston, invites you to an audiovisual program: 20 years since the Oslo Accords:...

Egypt Restricts Gaza Entry

www.menewsline.com Egypt, amid its counter-insurgency offensive, has sharply restricted entry from the neighboring Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. Hamas officials said the new military-backed regime in Cairo has reduced the flow of Palestinians from the Gaza...

Failed Foreign Policy

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/13776#.UieKMxXn_IU Warfare is a very serious business whose first imperative is to deploy force to win - rather than to punish, make a statement, establish a symbolic point, or preen about one's morality. Yet, these latter...

US Military Intervention in Syria: The Broad Strategic Purpose, Beyond Punitive Action

http://www.inss.org.il/publications.php?cat=21&incat=&read=11973 Until the publication of reports that Bashar Assad’s army carried out a large attack using chemical weapons in an eastern suburb of Damascus, Washington had not seriously considered military intervention in Syria. In light...

PLO news agency describes how Jews and Moslems share holy place under Israeli rule

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=61861 Israel to Close Hebron Mosque to Muslims http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=23142 HEBRON, September 9, 2013 (WAFA - official PLO news agency) - The Israeli authorities informed Muslim officials in Hebron that the Ibrahimi mosque (Cave of the Patriarchs) will...

Russia-Iran Axis Gets Access

http://rubinreports.blogspot.co.il/2013/09/by-barry-rubin-original-supposed-intent.html The original supposed intent of this whole Syria exercise--punishing Bashar al-Assad's use of chemical weapons--has achieved zero. In fact, it has backfired. "Russian credibility is not in question," my colleague Dr. Jonathan Spyer pointed out,...

Rouhani in the Big Apple

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/359152/rouhani-big-apple-elliott-abrams The second-in-command of the world’s greatest state sponsor of terrorism is coming to New York. Cause for celebration? Hassan Rouhani is Iran’s new president, chosen in an undemocratic election. Rouhani has spent his life in...

David Bedein in a debate with Gershon Baskin

David Bedein of Israel Resource News Agency and The Center for Near East Policy Research in a debate with Gershon Baskin, formerly with IPCRI, the Israel Palestine Center for Research and Information. Held on...

Israel’s Nuclear Ambiguity, Arms Control Policy, and Iran: Is the Time Ripe for Basic...

http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=5855 Transparency, for example, in the nuclear realm, tends to be regarded as an inherently positive value in international relations circles - to wit, the more transparent you are, the better. But is this true...