US taxpayers aid to UNRWA tops $10 billion

http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/foreign-policy/230249-us-taxpayers-aid-to-unrwa-tops-10-billion A battle erupted on Capitol Hill over the mandate of the organization charged with disbursing international aid to Palestinian refugees. Last week, Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) challenged the United Nations Relief and Works Agency...

Recipe for War: Unilateral Withdrawal from West Bank

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3101/unilateral-withdrawal-west-bank Israel's Defense Minister Ehud Barak believes that Israel should consider a unilateral withdrawal from the West Bank if negotiations with the Palestinian Authority fail to bear fruit. Under the current circumstances, such a move would...

Israeli leadership suffers from unilateral withdrawal syndrome

http://www.haaretz.com/misc/article-print-page/israeli-leadership-suffers-from-unilateral-withdrawal-syndrome.premium-1.434427?trailingPath=2.169%2C2.225%2C2.227%2C It seems that some of our military-men-turned-politicians are suffering from the unilateral withdrawal syndrome. It may be typical of the military mindset: Get it over with! Finish the job! Do something! Do anything! Actually,...

The Fate of Syria’s Chemical and Biological Weapons

http://www.biu.ac.il/SOC/besa/docs/perspectives177.pdf EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Israel has good reason to fear that Syria’s chemical and biological weapons arsenal could fall into the wrong hands - to terrorist elements within Syria, to an even more hostile Syrian regime,...

Egypt Fully Remilitarizing Sinai – with U.S. Help

http://www.jewishpolicycenter.org/3309/egypt-fully-remilitarizing-sinai-with-us-help Egypt has moved forces into the Sinai beyond what was agreed to in the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty. Getting them in wasn't that difficult - Israel agrees that security in the Sinai has deteriorated. Getting...

The war against the Jews

http://www.meforum.org/3299/war-against-jews The sustained anti-Israel de-legitimization campaign is a corollary of the millenarian obsession with the Jews in the Christian and the Muslim worlds. Since Israel is the world's only Jewish state, and since Zionism is...

Israel is losing the media war

http://www.israeldefense.com/?CategoryID=483&ArticleID=1626&print=1 Although it is hard to see the connection between war and media at first glance, Professor Nino Levy argues that the media front is not less important than other combat arenas. If the IDF...

Steve Emerson interview on shameful US response to Islamist Riots on Sun TV

http://www.investigativeproject.org/3750/steve-emerson-interview-on-shameful-us-response Host: "Now this latest wave of violence in the Middle East has brought intense focus on American foreign policy. In fact that very topic seems to have superseded the economy as the biggest issue...

Rethinking Palestine 2012

http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/10/rethinking_palestine_2012.html In 2011, Mahmoud Abbas, head of the Palestinian Authority (PA), failed to win U.N. acceptance of Palestine as an independent state1. This year, he lowered the bar to upgraded status within the U.N. In...

Profs. on Mideast Turmoil: Blame America, Israel, and Free Speech

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/cinnamon-stillwell/profs-on-mideast-turmoil-blame-america-israel-and-free-speech/ In the wake of the al-Qaeda attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya on Sept. 11, 2012, the seizure of the American embassy in Cairo, Egypt, and the ensuing anti-American protests and riots...