Here’s What Middle Eastern Moderates Actually Think and Say

http://rubinreports.blogspot.com/2012/05/heres-what-middle-eastern-moderates.html Over and over again I hear them: Egyptians who have lost hope that their country can be saved from Islamist dictatorship (this is what the people want, one says); the Lebanese who can no...

PA Admits To Security Force Corruption

www.menewsline.com The PA said it has determined that its security officers in the northern West Bank were exposed to corruption. Some of the officers were linked to the death of the governor of the northern...

Feeding the hand that bites you: Reconsidering aid to a Gaza regime at war...

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/feeding-the-hand-that-bites-you-reconsidering-aid-to-gaza-regime-at-war-with-israel/ During the second week of March, 2012, while the Gaza regime launched more than 300 aerial attacks against southern Israel, driving one million people to cower in shelters, Israel announced to the world that...

Palestinians Short of Ideas, Not Guns

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/05/13/palestinians-short-of-ideas-not-guns-abbas-peace-netanyahu-obama/ Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas is complaining that Israel is making it difficult for his security forces to obtain weapons. As the New York Times reports, Abbas claimed yesterday in a meeting with members...

The Main Goal of the Palestinian Government

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3061/goal-of-palestinian-government The Palestinian government is in fact lying when it talks about a financial crisis; its main goal is to get Western and Arab donors to channel more funds to Ramallah. "Corruption in the Palestinian...

Stop Funding Tel Aviv University

http://www.michaelfreund.org/11707/stop-funding-tel-aviv-university One of Israel's leading universities seems to have lost its way. In a move that is as incomprehensible as it is shameful, Tel Aviv University (TAU) agreed to allow a student group to hold a...

Egypt: If There’s No Danger of Radicalism and Islamism Why Can’t You Provide Evidence?

http://www.gloria-center.org/2012/05/egypt-if-theres-no-danger-of-radicalism-and-islamism-why-cant-you-provide-evidence/ Consider one fact that demolishes the apparatus of nonsense about moderate Islamists and the credibility of those claiming there is nothing to worry about. These are the same people who have been declaring for...

Counting Palestine Refugees

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/301117/counting-palestine-refugees-daniel-pipes # The fetid, dark heart of the Arab war on Israel, I have long argued, lies not in disputes over Jerusalem, checkpoints, or “settlements.” Rather, it concerns the so-called Palestine refugees. So called because of...

Weekly Commentary: Time to set benchmarks for Palestinian compliance

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=57097 Here’s a snapshot of the situation today: 1. The Palestinians have many thousands of rockets, anti-aircraft missiles, anti-tank missiles, and other illegal weapons in the Gaza Strip. Every Palestinian group in the Gaza Strip, including...

Israel Continues to Thwart Terror Attacks from PA-Controlled West Bank

http://www.jinsa.org/fellowship-program/jinsa-fellows/israel-continues-thwart-terror-attacks-pa-controlled-west-bank On May 10, the official Israel Defense Forces blog posted an article titled “The 2012 Terror Attacks Against Israel You Never Heard About.” The title is somewhat misleading, since in fact, none of these...